I've never written CBC before, but this is the straw that breaks..etc. First there was the loss of Danielle Charbonneau's excellent program after the evening news, and now the loss of the orchestra! Please, come to your senses and reverse this awful decision.Bart van der Kamp
I do not suppodrthe changes made to Radio 2. It is yet another way that classical music lovers are being marginalised and sacfrificed to so-called popular culture.
Please do not gut the excellent, thoughtful programming that enriches so many lives. It is particularly sad to think of classical music programming being reduced to 'classics lite' with the emphasis on accessibility and familiarity, and to see that the plan is to ghettoize classical programming to the hours of 10-3, just when my children will be unable to listen with us. Reviewing my music collection, many, many items have been purchased after having been first heard and learned about on CBC. And in our community, we have abundant options for pop, jazz, and other forms of contemporary music (Canadian or other) and no other options for the kind of music, especially but not exclusively classical, now featured on CBC.
I didn't think it possible but after more than 40 years (since my late teens) of almost constant Radio 2 listening I have been cured by the new programming. The new
this is deliberate move towards infantility. It's also a deliberate move to kill CBC2. Because eventually nobody will listen to CBC2 anymore and then they'll kill it for that reason. We can listen to literally hundreds of radio stations if we want to listen to 'light pop', we don't need the CBC for that! We need CBC for cultural diversity, intelligent music and ditto programming. The CBC audience is not taken serious by its directors, who forget that we, the taxpayers, pay for this!
I am totally disheartened that CBCRadio2 would become just like any of the many other stations. Do not want my taxpayer money to support this and will definitely not listen, after 35 years loyal listening.
CBC has been tanking for years! I miss the Arts Report every weekday -- it was great. I hate the advertising -- the thin edge of the wedge for paid ads? Even if not, it stinks and it's getting more intrusive all the time. Cutting back the classical is a big mistake -- CBC will just be like any FM station out there and it will be a HUGE loss. And I am not your 80-year-old anti-target demographic, I am your 30-something spot-on target. All of my friends agree that CBC management is a disaster.
The CBC, in these days of electronic media is as, or more important, than the building of the rail way in knitting a nation from disparate strands that make the richness of Canada. I have stopped watching CBC TV because it has become so inane. Please do not dumb down radio programming as well and insult your audiences !
Please restore all classical music programs to CBC Radio 2. If we can't count on our public broadcaster to provide this type of sustained arts fare, no one will do it.
CBC and its french counterpart Radio-Canada have man y times in the last decade or so forgot about their national mandate and their reason of existence. Trying to play and be an active player in the commercial world is not their primaryt mandate. The national quality informative and cultural IS waht they should focus on and lobby for to our federal government.
We need more Classical music rather than less in our air waves and not easy listening either. As a teacher I know the importance for students to have easy access to quality classical music listening. Our orchestras and choirs need more rather than less showcase opportunities.
This move by the CBC is completely self-defeating. It is going to lose its core audience for CBC 2, and gain nothing, because the people it is supposedly pandering to won't tune in anyway, since they will be listening to the already available commercial versions of mainstream dreck. Absolute foolishness on multiple levels.
In the US I listen to classical music on Public Radio stations. In Canada I rely on CBC 2 and wish to see high level of classical music programs continued
So we are left with turning off the radio / which means the powers who decide will then tell us they have the rational needed to discontinue CBC radio. In fact the summer CBC was on strike was the best programming with continuous classical music in years.
Don't take away Radio 2 and the CBC Radio Orchestra! This is important to so many Canadians, including myself. I have been enjoying CBC 2 for my whole life. Please don't do this!!
I was present at the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the CBC Radio Orchestra. How proud we all were that it remained, the last radio orchestra in North America. Such a loss to the cultural heritage of our country is unnecessary and unwarranted. This decision can be reversed!
My car radio and house radio are permanently set on CBC2. I really appreciate the classical music and the talks with canadian artists. Please don't change this!!!!!!!!!!!
Radio 2 has been a mainstay in my life, wherever I lived, whatever I was doing. I have learned so much from all the announcers over the years and they are part of the fabric ofthis nation - please,please don't run that fabric!!
As someone who is just finishing a doctoral dissertation on a Canadian composer, I cannot tell you how many times CBC and its past support for Canadian composers and music has come up. Programmes like Two New Hours are essential to preserving and furthering the musical culture of this country.
petition against the programming of commercial/popular music at the expense of art music, poetry, and other artistically creative and culturally relevant programming on the CBC .John Cuciurean
