I'm a fairly young listener; the generation that the changes are apparently catering to. What I want to listen to on CBC is a selection of classical music that goes way beyond the well-behaved Mozart piano concerto. Put in some early music, put in some Piazzolla, add some Shostakovitch. So I love the programs that do this (like music
Please CBC I get enough forced multiculturalism stuffed down my throat on Radio 1. Classical music is universal, and Radio 2 fostered my love for the genre.
The publicly funded radio program provider in Canada must respect the people who pay for it -us. We want classical music. The other stuff is amply available elsewhere.
My son (15) recently started listening to Radio 2 as we drive to school in the morning. He had never previously listened to classical music - now he is humming
I wish to have Andrea Ratuski's program restored to CBC One and to request that Eleanor Wachtel's and Bob McDonald's evening programs broadcast at an earlier hour. I was a regular listener to their programs in the evening as it was not always possible to hear the broadcast during the day. Also, they are worth listening to a second time.
The audience for CBC 2 is loyal - and probably has paid / is paying a hefty chunk of the taxes which support CBC. Demographic change is constantly adding to the CBC 2 audience base whereas the younger cohort is static or shrinking - see Sherri Cooper's book, just out, The New Retirement. Young people are either too frenetically busy for radio (believe me: I taught university and college students all my life), or make their own on-line choices of entertainment- Youtube, Facebook, music downloads, etc. And the times CBC2 audiences most want music they enjoy is the same as everyone else: around breakfast, a.m commute, drive home, during supper, and in the evening. The arguments presented by CBC are specious and without logical or critical basis. Did the CBC brass receive NO education in the usual criteria for establishing critical values? Then they might at least make up for their apparent ignorance by reading Russell Smith in the Globe and Mail. Call CBC2 elitist or high culture if you will. But that level of culture - maintained in the Dark Ages by a boatload of monks who made it from ravaged Europe to Ireland - is what kept culture alive and, according to Kenneth Clark's book of that name, essentially saved civilisation. What CBC is doing is to trivialise. Perhaps it's time for PBS and NPR Canada.
I turned on CBC-2 yesterday, as I have done for many years on Saturday mornings -- and was absolutely astonished at what met my ears. I turned it off, and found something else to listen to. I spent much of the day listening to the BBC instead -- never went back to see if there might be something actually worth listening on CBC-2 later in the day. This is what happens when you try to have
CBC Radio Two has been my musical home for a very, very long time. I work at home and used to have it on all the time. I have it on much less frequently now with the change in programming, and often find myself cringing when it is on. I do not like jazz. I miss the classical.
Please continue your classical music programming. It is essential to the education and well-being of our citizens. It is the voice of culture and history. A haven in a storm of mediocre shlock.
These new decisions are so staggeringly stupid that I really shouldn't have to explicate my disapproval. Nothing in Canada can give us what Radio 2 has historically done. There is no other vehicle for
As I've been overseas for many years, I haven't kept up with the steady decline of Radio 2 which I'd been hearing about from friends in Canada. So now I know firsthand how bad things have become, and I'm incredibly, disappointed, disillusioned, depressed, angry and ashamed of the CBC.
If the changes to Radio 2 continue, I support removing public funding and making this just another commercial station. Then we can lobby gov't for a replacement and funding will available.
I am devestated about these changes. There is NO WHERE else on the dial that I can find thought provoking, intellectually challenging, informative, uniquely Canadian programs INCLUDING the classical music programming. Again - NO WHERE else on the dial can I find what I find on Radio 2. Please listen to our voices.
CBC Radio 2 provided the citizens of this country with a distinctively Canadian choice in music. The CBC is Canada's cultural heartbeat. It pains me to see it being changed into yet another mainsteam station.
I have been listening to CBC Radio 2 ever since I came to Canada some 25 years ago, and I am not even close to retirement to be able to just listen to classical music full time. I tuned to any other station only if by accident. It is highly disconcerting to see the new
It's pathetic to think that Radio 2 would modify their programming to gain listeners. Are they not retaining their primary demographic? This really is madness.
The audacity of the cbc management in claiming they are not dumbing down radio 2 and promoting their agenda in the press with support from industry leaders. Most of whom are the ceo,s of recording companies who strangly enough make most of their profits from pop music. Additionally a list of musicians who most of us know are not what we want to listen to. It would be more appropriate to channel this advertising money into programming. It is apparent to listeners that the recent programming changes has compromised the quality of the offer and the stupid commercials about upcoming broadcasts are an insult to the public
I've found the programming to be subtly educational while putting a smile on my face - and often making me laugh out loud as I wake up in the morning. It will be a very dark day if CBC goes through with these changes. I won't listen to the station at all as the proposed changes sound like a shotgun approach rather than filling a niche like it's been doing.
Classical music is crucial, regardless of how many people want to hear it. Without the CBC, I would have had no one to teach me how to listen, what to listen to, etc. Now I have to listen to BBC on the internet to get the vibe and info I used to get from the CBC. What makes me so ticked off, is how the management simply don't see that the demographic you are trying to attract with these cuts would never listen to CBC, no matter what formatting they offer. I want the Arts Report back, as well as Northern Lights and all the other fabulous programs you've consigned to the wastebasket.
DO NOT GET RID OF THE CLASSICAL MUSIC!!! I listen to it every day in the morning on the way to university. It starts my day off right. Why would you change to play soft-pop? That's all we need, since there certainly isn't enough of those stations already. Your audience group will completely change and you won't get the current support that you have now if you switch programming.Keep the classical!Thanks.
This will be a cultural travesty, of great proportions and bringing much regret, if it is carried out. Why is the CBC pandering to pop culture -- especially when there is already so much of that on the airwaves? Why should classical music listeners have to sit at home listening to an Internet channel -- rather than enjoying great music during their otherwise miserable morning and afternoon commutes? Who is this really serving?
PULEESE!!! do not take the retrograde programming step to make the foolish step toward mediocity by ceasing to provide quality music of a classical orientation in favour of a lessor
CBC radio 2 must have the recently cancelled shows reinstated. The Canadian Public broadcasting station should not be replicating popular music available on other stations, but must provide Canadians with classical music, new classical music, feature Canadian composers, orchestras, classical groups and individuals, and continue to have announcers who provide educational and intelligent discussions about the music presented.
I listen to good classical music programming. For 35 years the CBC has provided that in my life on a daily basis. The proposed changes to programming cannot
