These cuts are indeed depressing, but the CBC has gone through this sort of retrenchment before and has managed to survive. It's interesting to see that they are considering advertisements on Radio 2. I'm old enough to remember when adds were dropped from CBC AM radio. Things seem to be coming full circle.
One of the things that hasn't been mentioned, but the most profitable broadcast property the CBC owns is the Hockey Night In Canada franchise on TV. Tit It is up for renegotiation at the end of the 2014 NHL season. At the very least the CBC will have major competition for this and could well lose it all together. While HNIC is expensive to produce, it brings in huge revenues and the CBC could well find themselves in even more trouble. SF -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Cuff Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 2:32 PM To: Shortwave programming discussion Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Cuts at the CBC RNW did this a few years back - the feature programming (such as it is) remains, but no live newscasts embedded in the editions as they're aired around the world. So you make the feature program (e.g. "The Link") once each day and that's it... And if Sackville goes, so does the Northern Quebec SW service. RC On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Sandy Finlayson <[email protected]> wrote: > It makes you wonder what RCI will still be doing. If they are ceasing > news production, satellite and shortwave broadcasts there's not too much > left to keep. > _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
