When we were young the cbc educated us in the world of culture not fashion which is temporary what are we giving the youth today to help them grow.They wont be adolescants forever! Shame on the cbc.
By doing this CBC Radio2 will not attract any new listeners and will lose many of those who now regularly listen. I and many others enjoy listening to classical music during the day - just think of the numbers of requests for music on Here's to You. Jurgen has always been the perfect way to avoid being stressed out by rush hour traffic in the afternoon. Give us a bit more news at noon and 6 pm, get rid of the annoying ads for programs we already know about and keep the daytime programming as it is now.
CBC brass must be deranged to think that the public is going to listen to yet another easy listening station. They must be brain dead. In reality the idea is probably to lower listenership to the point that it is not viable and then pull the plug on CBC public funding because no one listens to it. Cynical, I know, but probably true.My wife and 4 children and students in my high school classes are going to miss CBC2
young audiences do not listen to cbc, you will have to rely on us baby boomers and we want serious classical music, uninterrupted by constant katy malik or donna brown plugs!!
By trying to please everybody, you end up pleasing nobody. Please go back to being a classical music network and leave the pops and ethnic music to commercial stations.
The recent extensive cuts in what is left of classical music on Radio2 indicate an annual program to attack and dumb down the network . Please listen to what your faithful fans are saying.
Classical music and its programming by CBC Radio has been for many years one of the glories of Canada and Canadian broadcasting. The continuing cuts to classical music on CBC Radio by current management, and the arguments offered to support them, have no basis in reality. What we are witnessing is a form of vandalism. Oh CBC! Oh Canada!
Please bring back the classical programs recently cancelled. On top of the great music it delivers lots of interesting information about composers and history of classical music.
I enjoy listening to classical music and find the best way to do this is through CBC Radio 2. Not only do I hear the music but also the history and contemporary musicians. Satellite radio stations will NOT do this for our younger generation of listeners.
I have lived in all regions of Canada, most of which had no private broadcaster classical music station. CBC Radio 2 is the only classical music station available to Canadians in areas that typically only offer country or pop stations. CBC Radio 2 binds together this country to promote appreciation of the arts and to provide a national stage for Canadian classical music musicians.
CBC Radio 2 should maintain its classical music emphasis and revive its arts reporting capacity. Indeed that was why it was created in the first place. There is no other classical station available in most Canadian communities. Rather than introducing a mishmash of musical styles to its programming, Radio 2 should emphasize
I was totally shocked and upset to learn of the CBC shutting down its Radio Orchestra yesterday-- not to mention all the recent cuts to CBC radio programs showcasing classical and independent Canadian talent. This is such a SENSELESS, SHORT-SIGHTED and STUPID series of decisions on the CBC's part. As a young composer, and strong supporter of Canadian music, I am very concerned for the future. The CBC is shutting down access to many opportunities for both creators and listeners to access the vast amount of musical and creative talent in this country. Something needs to be done to restore the funding, support, exposure, and respect that Canadian professional musicians and artists deserve.
The contemplated changes to your programming, minimizing the classical content, is really cheapening the CBC and you are pandering to the lowest common denominator.The so called popular music sounds all the same to me with constant repetiton of blah,blah,blah which is absolutely mindless. If you go ahead with your changes, you will have lost me for good. I just found 97.1, the french station, which transmitts mostly classical music with very few commercials, which are done very tastefully.I never expected this to happen to the National Broadcasting corporation, there must be something very wrong in that unit and I am very sorry that this could happen.
To let CBC 2 fall as a a source of quality classical music is to dumb down to the lowest common denominator. We need more variety on the airwaves, not more of the same.
I can't believe the immediate lack of quality we are seeing on Radio 2 to replace the programming coming off the air! Do they really imagine there is an audience for this non-content?
I am a 32 year old male who has found no better way to unwind then to listen to CBC's classical music programming. I think it cowardly of the CBC to pursue more contemporary programming when the current fare is a much appreciated showcase higlighting real talent,gifted individuals, and some of the very best renditions of classical peices selected by connoiseurs of the arts.
Perhaps the pennies are few at CBC but I hope there is a way to preserve the services we have come to enjoy and depend on such as the evening classical music program and the CBC orchestra
I listen almost exclusively to CBC Radio 2 because of the wonderful content PRESENTLY offered. Tom Allan is wonderful - irreplaceable. Studio Sparks is a gem (pun intended), Music
The CBC Radio Orchestra, DiscDrive, Studio Sparks, and Sound Advice are all being canceled? Where else will Canadians be able to find quality classical music content like this? I for one will have no reasons left to listen to CBC Radio anymore.
I am a Canadian violinist living in London England. My mother has recently lost her position of 25 years as a violinist in the CBC Radio Orch. I am disgusted that Canada has this little regard for culture and the arts and should think carefully about how shallow it will be perceived on an international level .I'm ashamed and appalled by these recent changes.
CBC Radio's Disc Drive, and the CBC Radio Orchestra, are a huge part of the reason I play cello now. If it wasn't for the orchestra my teacher would have never come to Canada, and I would have never had the opportunity to study music around the world. Shame on McGuire for canceling these programs and the orchestra.
CBC was one place where I could listen to Classical music and get away from mainstream entertainment. Not now. So I hardly ever bother. I'd like to bother. Where can I go to listen to classical music? Even Sunday morning, I used to listen to Coral Concert and then the symphony. Now i get...Shania Twain? what's going on at CBC?
I was shocked and dismayed to hear about further cuts to classical programming on CBC, including the axing of the CBC Radio orchestra. Shouldn't fans of classical music receive the same consideration as others?
Unless we have access to (expensive) satellite radio, CBC is the only option for varied, interesting classical music intermixed with stimulating DJ commentary. These changes are uncalled for and obviously unpopular.
