Sometimes adults are numbskull idiots. I think these dudes do not even listen to the radio shows that they are gutting. I'm in grade 4 and only listen in the early morning, evening, and weekends. Since I don't have the choice to carry a computer with me at all times, I will not be able to pick up the brilliant solution to all this classical music chopping---the so-called concerts on demand. What a dumb solution. So much for music appreciation. At least I'll have Glenn Gould's Goldberg variations on CD to fall asleep to every night. You guys are dumber than Patrick on the Spongebob Squarepants show.
The solution for adding new content to CBC radio is to add a Radio 3 or 4, not mess with the current excellence that is 2. If they keep dumbing CBC down, the poor thin will be an amoeba by decade end, assuming it's not made extinct before then by a majority Tory government.
I agree with this petition because the exposure to classical music, our talented Canadian musicians, as well as the education provided by hosts Eric Friesen, Peter Tiefenbach
People around the world often comment on the number and quality of classical musicians Canada has produced. CBC has played an important role in this, a role, which along many others, it has now relinquished. Shame on its leadership.
I am a classically trained professional musician. Why has CBC suddenly decided to devalue the contribution that our artists make to the cultural fabric of our country by removing one of our most vital connections to the Canadian public? Your proposed format change is a disgrace.
Radio2 forms the background for our day .... beginning when we rise and playing continuously when we are not otherwise engaged ... Our choice if the Radio2 changes proceed will be PBS.
CBC Radio 2 is NOT commercial radio. It should not compete with commercial radio. It's a radio station for adults and all these young people you are trying to attract will grow up to be adults who would want Radio 2 as it is now.
I have listened to CBC 2 and it's French counterpart Radio Canada almost exclusively for 40 years. The classical music and high intellectual level of the programming has been my mainstay through the ups and downs of personal and work life. It isn't just the music, but also the loss of the informed commentary, the introduction to new performances and new music that I will miss. I work and cannot listen to the radio during the day.
This will be an irreparable loss — especially to smaller communities across the country. What is CBC management trying to emulate? The vast radio desert which is the USA?
In its management decision to focus on pop and light jazz music, CBC has become just another station on the commercial dial. With no thought to its impact on the cultural life of the country. Not just to listeners, but to composers, performers, classical music series across the country. We fund this institution - give us the proof that this makes economic and cultural sense.
CBC radio, until recently, had an international reputation as a standard setter in quality broadcasting.: not as a market grabber. It has been defaced and humiliated by market-driven dumbing-down policies..
It is truly disheartening to hear of all the proposed changes. I've already given up listening to CBC2 in the evening. Please don't trash the daytime programs as well!
CBC has long been the pride of all Canadians who enjoy radio. The classical music programs, Arts reports and discussion programs are amongst its best achievements. Don't degrade it now by canceling some of the best programming.
The responsibility of the CBC has been to enlighten and educate, not solely to entertain. Canadians need the CBC to lead us in cultural activities, to engage us in a higher aesthetic experience and to stimulate our intelligence. The CBC has been a sanctuary from the entertainment din - but no longer.
Ok, so pop and jazz gets more listeners. Ok, then program 24 hours commercia-free po, rap, etc, and watch the ratings go up. The point is, even jazz has a 24 hour commercial-free station. Why no classical? Canada must be the only country in the developed world that does not have a trus classical radio station.E
Support for the culture and the arts was what had set CBC apart and put it among the ranks of the best of BBC and PBS. These cuts of what was the best of CBC are great loss and a great mistake. Please return to CBS's wonderful tradition.
If the aim is to draw more listeners, whoever is behind this McDonald's move is out to lunch in a big way - the people who listen to you will go away, and the people who don't now are going to remain listening to whatever pap they've become used to. Not to mention that the rich legacy and heritage of the CBC is being tossed as well. Totally dumbassed decision, and a national disgrace.
A Conservative Government formed the CBC in the late 1930s so it is ironic that the 2008 Conservative Government is attempting its destruction through its political appointee Hubert Lacroix. The CPR was created to bind the country from coast to coast and the CBC to be available in every community in Canada. Does Mark Steinmetz really think that the CBC should stop talking down to its audience? With an attitude like that the CBC should hire announcers with no education so they can all feel good about the popular agenda.
i listened to the last sound advice this saturday with a tear in my eye. i've loved that program on the drive to my youth orchestra for 4 years now, and i'm terribly sorry that it's gone forever. i'm looking forward to hearing the concerto according to pinchus, but that's from the archives. we need to keep classical music alive, and there needs to be current programing. CBC you are letting Canada down.
What you are doing in decimating the CBCRadio Two's serious programming is a betrayal of your mandate and a national disservice and a disgrace.Allan CraneAllan Crane
Put contemporary singers and songwriters, roots, world, folk music amd most jazz on CBC 1. Let us be able to listen to and have informational programs about classical music on CBC 2. I used to listen to nothing but the CBC. Now I find myself searching for an alternative.
Also restore funding of the live concert series such as the Vancouver CBC Radio Orchestra the COC's opera productions at the Glenn Gould Studio Music Around Us concerts featuring young Canadian talent...and the list goes on
If it hadn't been for the CBC I woul dnot have been introduced to classical music till much later in life. Do not gut the substance of programming by adding more
WTF!! Talk about yer fiddlin' while Rome burns and rearranging of the deck chairs. The final insult, of course, is that Radio 2 is being eviscerated to apparently appeal to me even more. Sic transit gloria mundi.
