The move to disband the orchestra is but the most recent move which confirms again the intent of current management to discredit and destroy the legitimacy of the CBC; to commit slow suicide
I emigrated to Canada in 1972, and learned much about my new country from the intelligent broadcasts on CBC radio. Alas, the intelligence seems now to be downgraded for whatever might seem popular at the moment. I sign the petition, but have lost faith in CBC and more and more go to other places on the dial.
When at home or in the car I usually have CBC radio on. I am now finding that I often have to turn it off as I dislike the music being played on both channels.
Please leave CBC alone. It is fine as it is. Don't make it a clone of umpteen dozen private stations. If the philistines in power don't like it, let them take their much needed medicine.
Even in a major city like Toronto, the next best thing to CBC classical prgrms is not even close to the depth the CBC can offer and you are leaving little for Canadians but pop culture and classical greatist hits. Shame.
My husband and I have kept the radio tuned to CBC Radio 2 for as long as I can remember, simply for the classical content. Particularly I can't believe you're going to cut Disc Drive, which gives you that wonderful warm cookie feeling in late afternoon. This station is not supposed to cater to the mediocre. Are you people nuts?!
You cannot cancel Tom Allen's morning show, absolutely not! I depend on him every weekday morning, he puts the sunshine in my mornings and rouses me to action. His show has got to stay .
Please do not end the classical music programming on CBC. The watering down of the programs will not enlarge audiences, it will only ruin the interest and enjoyment of already faithful listeners.
Please, do not replace the great classics of centuries with the light pop and jazz of modern times. There is plenty of the latter on air, already, to satisfy anyone who wishes to listen to it.
It is a shame the CBC would even pander the idea of selling out - I think you should have let the people decide before you made the abritrary decision yourselves. Since we pay for the programming, pay for your salaries, and pay to keep the culture of Canada alive, you have no right to take an institution that catered to class, the arts and cultured minds and reduced it to the lowest common denominator for your so-called highest top dollar. Look at what CBC 1 is doing if you want to get an idea of what real and vibrant radio that is both intelligent and thought provoking. Perhaps we should protest like the Tibetans are around the world. Shame on you.
A million dollar investment for such a fine orchestra is a small price! The government waste more then that on many usleess programs...how about a little culture!! a cheap price to pay!!
In addition, the cancellation of Tom Allen's Music and Company, together with Disc Drive and CBC Records is shameful. No aamount of weasel words and full page ads will right this wrong. As has been said before, the CBC license requires it to be different from commercial broadcasters. Please ensure that this appalling decision is not implemented.
the cbc radio orchestra is the jewel of canada, the heart of our nation; it is imperative that this orchestra continue, and that more be created!! already cbc has been dumbed down with mindless crass radio shows; there is little classical music left on the radio altogether!! The musicians are an extremely valuable and intregal part of the fabric of the whole music scene of Canada!! My university prof, Roger Cole, the principal oboist, is an extremely talented musician, as are others. THere is money to keep this orchestra, it is just that the people who made this terrible and wrong decision, do not have the capacity to know what is valuable. This decision must be reversed!!!!Marianna Ussner, Music teacherB.C>
It's time to invest in the CBC, in Canada's unique cultural identity and in what we have to bring to the world including our orchestras, our choir, our musicians and composers across the country.
CBC Radio 2 has been musically going down hill for a while now. Please bring back classical music. You are the only station in the Country who gives people the chance to listen to intelligent music.
Return the Classical music both for our enjoyment and for the educational value. Now that classical has been removed from CBC 2, I turn it off in evenings, and seem to listen less often during the days, too, because it is no longer my default station. Mark Francis 204-942-8992
I have been spending less of my day listening to CBC Radio 2 since the changes made in March 2007, but still tune in enthusiastically for the classical music and education hours. I am heartbroken at the propect of losing Tom Allen and Eric Freisen, and the planned reduction in classical.
I am saddened by the careless abandonment of so many beloved programmes on Radio 2.Also, may I point out that there is a large community enjoying current CBC Radio 2 programming all around the world, who will feel cut off from their lifeline to the excellent classical programmes that characterize Radio 2
I support the petition to keep CBC2's programming as it is currently. The CBC should not lose sight of its central mandate to provide classical, cultural and Canadian programming across this huge country. We in Toronto can find some alternatives (though none of them satisfactory). In more remote parts of the country, CBC2 is the lifeline connection to this kind of programming. We emphatically object to your proposed changes and the dumbing down of a cultural link that has been a central part of many of our citizens' days and a means to accessing innovative, educational and cultural programs.
Shame on yous that will take a program off the air to fill it with what other nonsense of tasteless program. Let the program stay because it fills the hearts of some many that listen in to the broadcast.
