I got into my zone.
This originally appeared as a series of Tweets on Oct. 27, 2018. I’ve modified it some to work as a blog post. I also ran it as a radio piece which you can listen to below. This past weekend, I attended a memorial service for Drew Schemenauer where I said a few words, and I’d like to share them here. For over thirty years, Drew Schemenauer was the transmitter tech for CBC Radio in Prince George and the central interior– a huge area covering hundreds of kilometers. I only […]
The trial for the alleged murder of Colton Boushie, the 22-year-old Cree man who was shot and killed on a farm in rural Saskatchewan started this week. And so did “Boushie,” a podcast being produced by CBC Saskatchewan and the single most important thing I think is happening at CBC right now.
Though I love radio, I will be spending the next few months as CBC’s digital producer for Prince George/northern B.C. My key role is to translate great stories you hear on CBC Daybreak North into versions that will find you in your news feeds on facebook and cbc.ca. The best way to get these stories is as […]
This morning, a big THANK YOU to our listeners. Once again, Daybreak North is the NUMBER ONE radio show in Prince George northern British Columbia, and CBC is the most-listened to radio station all day and all week. On any given morning nearly 1/3 of radios in cars, homes, offices are tuned in to us, and we’re honoured to wake up with you. We love the north, and we’re glad the north likes us back. Thanks for listening.
It’s a little late to blame CBC for print’s demise.
So yesterday, 241 people at CBC stations across the country, including a few I know, were told their jobs are “redundant”. That brings the total for this year alone to 1,400 cut jobs. I remember when I started at CBC. We had tens of millions more in our budget. We had a robust slate of […]
When I started at CBC, we had millions more in our budget and hundreds more people working for us. It was five years ago.
As CBC Radio 3 changes formats, I reflect on how it changed my life.
“Thursday marked 20 weeks since Ghomeshi had stepped out of the studio and into infamy, and everyone on staff was eager – some would say desperate – to begin a new chapter.”
Busy times. Next week, Prince George starts hosting the Canada Winter Games, one of the largest events in the country and the biggest to ever come to Prince George. At the same time, Prince Rupert is hosting the All-Native Basketball Tournament, an important event for the region. Our office is doing special coverage for both, […]
In which I reveal my completely guessed-at secret strategy for hitting number one in the ratings.
Longtime journalist Linden MacIntyre has some parting words for the CBC: “As is often the case in times of existential crisis, it becomes a challenge for people running countries or institutions to project the kind of leadership that fosters confidence and morale – no troubled institution can survive without those two qualities. And so we […]
Canadian Media Guild VP Lisa Lareau on the status of the CBC “What we do see is an increasingly empty Broadcasting Centre. We see empty offices. We see one empty studio, another one used by a former network competitor (Rogers) and a few more slated to be shuttered by next year. We see whole areas of […]
And now for the National Research Council’s official time signal.
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