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The Communication Energy and Paperworkers Union has started up a new freelance local. It’s $25 to join and a mailing list is starting up that seems like a good way to connect with other folks in the biz of freelance TV, radio, magazines etc. The CEP has been active lobbying in Ottawa for cultural sovereignty [...]
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McGill University students have voted to continue paying fees to support CKUT Radio McGill, the campus station.
In a referendum organized by the Students’ Society of McGill University, 63 per cent of voters agreed to keep paying $4 per semester (graduate students pay $3) to keep the FM station on the air.
The fees represent about 40 [...]
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Oh for god’s sake, Sony, just let the damn thing die. Sony has decided to issue yet another MiniDisc — despite the fact that they killed it a while ago. And is this one improved? Let’s see… ATRAC3plus format (yuck)… SonicStage software (yuck).
The MZ-RH1* will be targeted at live-music enthusiasts, and, according to reports will [...]
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So this weekend, I worked with a chartered management accountant to see if we could get a human-readable version of the CBC memo about its pension plan. It’s actually been kind of fun. Here’s what we think it was trying to say:
1. As of today, if the CBC were to be shut down and [...]
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Sirius Satellite Radio has signed an agreement with its arch-rival XM Radio to provide a standard that will let customers buy one radio capable of receiving both SIRIUS’ and XM Radio’s services.
Sirius, in a regulator filing, warned that although it hopes the standard will be used, “we have no assurances that any [...]
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Minnnesota Public Radio’s Garrison Keillor gets his own movie. And who can blame him. He’s an amazing storyteller. In fact, he’s one of my personal heros (in addition to: Ira Glass , Jonathan Goldstein, Stuart Mclean, and Saraha Vowell).
Check out www.aprairiehomecompanionmovie.com/
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There’s a great article called What Happened to Dynamic Range making the rounds tonight on the ‘net:
Our music today doesn’t have any life. It’s been squashed to death. There’s no excitement, no texture, and certainly no reason to buy it. Young people today accept this hot sound because that’s all they know. [...]
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Earlier Thursday, we CBC folks were updated via email by CBC president Robert Rabinovitch on the recent CBC Board of Directors meeting. A copy found its way onto this site.
I noted with interest that the primary topic seemed to revolve around the Pension Plan. It reads:
The Board was informed of the status of [...]
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Saying they’re finding it hard to compete against new technology, Canada’s commercial radio broadcasters are asking the CRTC to reduce the amount of Canadian content they’re required to play.
It’s part of a package of changes the Canadian Association of Broadcasters is proposing, citing the impact of new technology and waning radio listenership. It [...]
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The CRTC this morning approved CBC Radio ’s request to add FM transmitters to serve listeners in Edmonton, Calgary, and Winnipeg.
The AM transmitters in those cities will remain on to continue to serve outlying areas, but the Commission agreed with the CBC that “urban growth, the construction of high-rise concrete and steel [...]
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CBC management and the union representing Radio-Canada employees in Quebec and Moncton have begun marathon bargaining in the hopes of getting an agreement in place before the March 28 contract renewal deadline.
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Just wondering.
I’m going to be in Halifax on April 26. Are there enough freelance writers and podcasters who would attend a full-day workshop on writing for (and selling to!) CBC Radio ?
You can find out all about the workshop I did in Toronto that was very successful at todmaffin.com/blogs/radio/?cat=66
I’d need about 10 people who would [...]
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Had an idea last night. As you know, it’s possible to buy a lifetime premium listing on my CanadaPodcasts.ca site for $50 cheap. That gets you a listing that’s highlighted, in bold, and will be promoted in other ways (on the foursevens network site, and more).
But I make pretty good money and my server [...]
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You’re driving down the road, calmed by the soothing sounds from your favorite Christian radio station when, all of a sudden, Howard Stern hijacks your radio.
This is just the most outrageous example of a phenomenon radio station managers in the lower end of the FM spectrum have been hearing from listeners in recent months, a [...]
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“Ouimet”, the anonymous CBC manager who blogged from the inside during last summer’s lockout has posted an extremely compelling essay about the CBC:
[CBC President] Mr. Rabinovitch gave a speech on Thursday at the Empire Club.
Internally, we were sent a memo telling us he would be speaking. Then we were sent a memo telling us [...]
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