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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
So, for CBC, I would make the following streams available over the airwaves nationally:
CBC-1 (very much like the current CBC-1, concentrating on news and current affairs, and maintained by a network of local CBC radio stations producing some local content, including morning and late afternoon news and information shows for people as they get up in the morning and commute to and from work ).
CBC-2 (classical, and by this I mean all classical all the time, not like the current iteration of CBC-2, which includes a bit of everything)
CBC-3 (jazz, world music, ambient, relaxation)
CBC-4 (pop, rock)
CBC-5 (country, folk)
CBC-6 (hip hop, rap)
CBC-7 (local music programming, aboriginal (for the north)).
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CBC music's online service has, like, 150 different music streams on it. They had
12 Christmas streams in December. They add and remove them constantly, they just plug criteria into a database and they've got a stream.
There is no reason for CBC to plug up the FM dial (which only has a capacity of about 20 stations per market to begin with) with a bunch of stations that very few people will listen to. The main general information station, mixed music and indigenous programming are basically all they "need".
If you want to improve CBC music's local music selection, increase the regionalism of the service to be on-par with Radio 1 and provide programming blocks for local content and local control of playlists. Keep in mind if you're expecting 24 hours of locally organized content, a lot of markets are going to struggle with that. It takes quite a few people to actually run a radio station with a decent mix that is responsive enough to consumer demands to be relevant. CBC Thunder Bay and CBC Sudbury are sharing resources to fill in their time slots; before this, they just aired a lot of the same content but with different hosts repeating the same segments, similar to what Sinclair does in the US with it's far-right editorials. Splitting CBC Radio into 6 music streams is going to need more people and more content, and all of that comes at a cost.
Regarding TV: Broadcast television is antique and should be phased out. 10 years from now, Cable and Satellite TV won't be a thing and there will be no more specialty channels, just content providers and licensing to streaming apps. A cable package will go from a number of channels to an amount of bandwidth on a dedicated line.
To be honest, I'm kind of impressed with how temporary TV was and how stable radio is, but when you think about it, it's a lot easier to enjoy radio while you're doing other things. You can't do that with TV. It's not versatile enough.
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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
One program that they need to cancel already is This Hour has 22 Minutes. It has been beyond stale for years now.
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That's literally the only show I watch on CBC.
I watch The National sometimes but they're too pro-establishment neo-liberal for an SJW progressive like myself.