I am distressed with the present and future changes to my beloved CBC Radio 2. How do we expect to instill love of classical music to our younger generations? I am teaching my grandchildren about the great composers and as my knowlege is gained from what I learn from Eric Friesen and Jurgen Goth I will not be able to widen their horizons. A perfect day for me is to be at home puttering and listening and learning. Our country needs mor cultural programs, not fewer.
How did the powers-that-be at CBC become the powers-that-be without the vision and ethics that made CBC great, a favorite the world over? Someone stop the planet and escort them off!
I have always been a strong champion of Radio 2 and always willingly supported the service as a tax payer. One has only to travel within the USA by car and return to radio range of the CBC to appreciate what a unique excellent service Radio 2 was.Lowering standards is going to lose many listeners. It hurts to see a Canadian institution that many of us are very proud of being decimated. I humbly request that the CBC management seriously reconsider what they are doing.
We are not elite persons but average Canadians who appreciate a variety of music with the exception of rock and electronic music and find most adult Canadians do also.But we are ardent lovers of classical music and grew up among middle class families where it was played regularly on Sunday radio.It was also played contiually in the Rideau Regional Centre when I worked there as it had a calming influence on the mentally handicapped patience.CBC should realize that our mature adult population over 44 years comprise 14,000.000 Canadians and that as always the beautiful classical music returns to that groups favour.Also,European countries feature the classics extensively in their education and cultural activities of the young which gives their culture an edge on American populations.Classics must continue to be an extensive part of our society and at least one radio station should be available with classical music all the time anywhere in Canada!!
There is plenty of popular music on other channels. Let CbC Radio2 continue its excellent programme of classical music and thoughtful programmes about the arts in canada and the world. Bring back the old programmes!
We dplore this dumbiing down of CBC Radio 2 programmes. At the rae the CBC is going there will be no classical music on Radio 2 by the end of 2008. Will the commercial radio stations pick up the demand for classical music? very unlikely!
Those who don't like to listen to classical music as it used to be played have plenty of other choices. So many of us have depended on Radio 2 for years. Why are you punishing us? You're not being paid to be so mean.
When I emigrated to Canada from the Netherlands about 40 years ago, I listened to CBC Radio 2 a lot. I have learned much about classical music, composers and musicians. I enjoyed many good concerts on radio. How I will miss all the interesting talks and great information!
I won't listen to CBC 2 if it doesn't have classical music. If I wanted lite, I've got plenty of choices. Bring back the Arts Report. Keep playing classical. And what's with the ads for CBC instead of a couple extra minutes of news? I almost, but not quite, turn off when I hear them.
CBC has been complicit in destablizing what intellectual cultueralactivities we have in this acultural country.Change can be good but gutting an entire section of music, art and challenging ideas is not the way to earn the respect of the world. We are already a laughing stock when it comes to excellence
I am appalled at what is happening to CBC programming. Please stop this senseless destruction of what has always been a really worthwhile listening choice.
The only use I have for the Canadian Broadcasting Corpse is CBC 2. And now they're taking that away. What are taxpayers getting for their billion dollars anyway? Stop the insanity....
As someone who works all day how is it possible to listen to the new classical music programming hours of 10-3? But good job on perpetrating the stereotype that Canada does not support their classical musicians!
There is an absence of classical music programs among radio stations today. Those that do exist, should be preserved to accommodate listeners who appreciate classical music.
I'm curious to know what the objectives of these changes are. The CBC won't compete effectively with the commercial stations' mindless appeal to youth, so why not stick with an appreciative audience, many of whom have been paying the bills for CBC for years? I urge folks to get letters to their MPs asap. Now I'm retiring and Disc Drive won't be available when I need it. Madness.
YIKES! Disbanding the CBC Orchestra is bad enough, but to take the classical music programmes away is really dumbing down Radio 2. Especially when you have bright, articulate hosts who inform
I have listened to CBC Radio 2 for more than 30 years. It was a constant source of quality classical music, insightful commentary and education. I have been frustrated and puzzled by the recent reduction of classical music throughout the day. Buying CDs is one expensive option that will reduce my exposure to a vast library and the attendant broadening of my musical horizons. An utter shame - and shame on you CBC.
A step back into the dark ages for Canada. CBC has long been lauded as champion of the arts and to change the format into a middle of the road easy listening station is heartbreaking and a travesity.
it is time that CBC management started to pay attention to its listeners. The decimation of Radio 2 as a source of classical music, excellent commentary and Canadian classical talent represents the destruction of a cultural artifact that cannot be replicated. It is no longer a question of budgets but of a vision. CBC has no mandate to destroy radio two - it has a mandate to serve its listeners and to provide that which is not provided anywhere else. The destruction of CBC records and CBC orchestra cannot be justified by simply offering downloaded programming as the new and improved way of listening. Most importantly computer listening makes programming inaccessibleto a wide audience who are not able to afford or cannot use a computer. This is another canadian cultural institution being destroyed, not just another radio station.
You are risking losing all your listeners by betting on younger ones. Remember that it's with maturity that people get to appreciate the classics. Young people will also mature.Denise Rackus
I am shocked by the announced decision by CBC to cancel the outstanding classical music programs that make up part of its core Radio 2 programming, especially in the wake of the sweeping (and reckless) changes that have already taken place in the past year. I am also dismayed to hear and read in the media about the perception that classical music is elitist and that CBC management is trying to shed an alledged
I am dismayed by the direction CBC Radio2 has taken recently. Rather than being enlightened, uplifted, or inspired by what I hear, I have more often been annoyed to the point of turning it off. Many of my friends also discuss this perception, and I fear you are alienating your most loyal audience in the interest of trying to cater to potential listeners who will not tune in anyway but will be going to other entertainment sources.
CBC Radio 2's degradation is a huge loss in my life. It will soon not be worth even a button on my car radio. Why are we losing a magnificent Western cultural tradition in classical music, and a mature, loyal audience, so that we can hear more Brazilian jazz and more current crap that is played on other stations? I am one who feels the new 'jack of all trades, master of none' programming is designed to marginalize CBC radio so that its cancellation can be justified. In other words, a political agenda. Is it Stephen Harper to whom we should be writing?
CBC Radio 2 is now just plain horrible to listen to- so I don't anymore. I have all my life, from a baby when my dad listened to it, to an adult when I listened to it- it's a part of my life. Now I have to turn it off because the music is truly AWFUL. Please bring the classical music back!
CBC has a unique niche with classical music. There are already any number of easy listening stations to choose from. I'll be turning to my cable TV for my classical music but what about those loyal fans from rural areas. Cable isn't an option for them. Bad decision CBC.
I find it very regretful that gradually CBC is canceling very informative and educational programs in classical music. I wonder which public they try to appeal in doing so certainly not the faithful auditors of classical music whom have been supporting CBC who are paying high taxes because they are part of the so-called 'elite'.
Sad and shameful day for Canada! Great music broadcasts made the CBC special, now it's just pandering to lowest-common-denominator tastes and the almighty buck. RIP CBC and the once-proud Radio Orchestra.
CBC Radio 2 is about the only station I consistently listen to in the car and in my workshop. Maybe i will switch to the French-language station instead, that is, until its programming gets trashed as well. I had been putting up with that teen-age sounding announcement about the music taking me everywhere, but now with these possible changes to the programming I may just quit listening to CBC altogether.
