Should the CBC stop being funded by the gov't?
- Thread starter TheShadow
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Get serious . I drive the winter mountain roads regularly . This month Starwood , Kitimat , and Hinton not once did I need or rely on CBC weather reports .
Enough area that has no radio coverage on all routes . And all experience all that winter can offer .
Missinipi out of Grandmothers Bay…that brings back some weird memories in Northern Saskatchewan.
Been a long time (feels like a lifetime ago) working oilfield exploration as a young guy in the mid-late ‘80’s where CBC North (can’t remember if it was one or two) was the only radio station for weeks at a time. It was some truly weird shit but grateful to have it at the time.
Occasional news in the middle of two hours of old-old country music, then about 1/2 hour of announcements and messages, then a flip to indigenous music for an hour or two, with occasional news, mixed in, then repeat of the earlier messages and then announcements with a few new ones added in, an hour or two with some other genre of music…then repeat again.
“Henry Bear, your dentist appointment is moved from Tuesday 16th to Thursday 18th. Freddie Badger, call your wife Erma ‘cuz she’s ready to forgive you again. Norma Bird, you left your keys on the counter at da’ Northern Store. Alfred Ermine, your snowmobile parts are in over at Johnie Rabbits repair shop. Etc…”
Announcements of births and deaths and fundraising Bingo’s, mixed in with private (and not so private) messages for everyone and their dog. Do they still do that?
CJGX? in Yorkton was a private radio station and they did funeral watch. They read obituaries on the air. Not sure if they still do but it would not surprise me.
Sounds aboot right. It was Brave New Waves while doing nightshift that got me into CBC.
It was a choice of that or nothing while working in the north in the late ‘80’s that got me into it temporarily until I got out of the north.
I can't handle commercial radio.It was a choice of that or nothing while working in the north in the late ‘80’s that got me into it temporarily until I got out of the north.
You can never get the bingo schedule here in Toronto.