ThisIsNotCBC wrote:It did when it flipped to FM from AM in 2008. Its most recent format before that (as CKBD at 600 AM) was Adult Standards.
Thanks for that - and love your avatar, by the way! Is it just me or has CBC gotten
more biased? Their whole coverage of the U.S. election tended to focus on the Democrats' assertion of "Russian hacking" and all the negative press about Donald Trump and merely a whisper about any Clinton controversies. Similarly, in the primary, they were practically "gaga" on Clinton versus Sanders. I'm not necessarily saying they are all politically biased for
what they say but you
can be biased for
what you choose to cover,
how you cover it and how much attention you devote to something (or don't cover at all).
It's for these reasons - a number of "missteps" - and also that they "copy protect" their programming whereas Global BC and CTV do
not which prevent me from recording a small news clip to save for later - that I now advocate for CBC-TV to be sold off to private sector broadcasters (i.e., to build out CityTV) and/or shut down in geographies with
too much saturation of local content. Oh and for
not making available their content to Telus Optik TV OnDemand (and probably other BDUs' OnDemand services), forcing you to their website. CBC Radio
does do a decent job still and should be retained, possibly simulcasting itself as a
new CBC News Network, hosted by hard-working, decent relatively obscure but highly dedicated broadcasters not looking for Peter Mansbridge or Wendy Mesley style "pay packets" but keen to earn a decent living wage and have a secure defined benefit pension plan. CBCmusic should be shut down or sold to Stingray Digital. CBC Sports, likewise, should be shut down. CBCnews.ca should then go "ad free" as a complement to its ad-free CBC Radio and license its content for free to print journalism sources.
Cheers,
Doug