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CBC's Alison Smith and Linden MacIntyre leaving public broadcaster


Showbiz | 206901 hits | May 08 12:41 pm | Posted by: Regina
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Alison Smith, a senior correspondent for CBC News and host of CBC Radio's flagship news show The World at Six, has announced she is leaving the public broadcaster at the end of June. The news comes on the heels of a similar announcement from CBC colleague

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  1. by OnTheIce
    Thu May 08, 2014 7:47 pm
    "If we start losing them at this point, we�re losing the future. It�s a tragedy, it�s a human tragedy and it�s an institutional tragedy and, I suppose it�s not pushing it to say, it�s a national tragedy."


    Barf.

  2. by avatar BRAH
    Thu May 08, 2014 7:52 pm
    "OnTheIce" said
    "If we start losing them at this point, we�re losing the future. It�s a tragedy, it�s a human tragedy and it�s an institutional tragedy and, I suppose it�s not pushing it to say, it�s a national tragedy."


    Barf.

    They make it sound like they were curing Cancer! :lol:

  3. by avatar saturn_656
    Thu May 08, 2014 8:06 pm
    Drama queen.

    CBC is a television and radio network, not some jewel in the Canadian crown or an object of necessity.

  4. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Fri May 09, 2014 12:25 am
    "If we start losing them at this point, we�re losing the future. It�s a tragedy, it�s a human tragedy and it�s an institutional tragedy and, I suppose it�s not pushing it to say, it�s a national tragedy."


    To put this horrific loss in perspective, 8O I'm sure the people who cleaned the horse crap off the streets of Toronto back in the day would have appreciated this type of job eulogy upon the invention of the automobile, to bad they didn't have a bloated, taxpayer funded media outlet to write it for them. ROTFL

    I'm interested as to where their outrage and vitriolic was back in the 90's when the Military went through a round of deep budget and personnel cuts during the FRP period because that was a real national tragedy.

  5. by Anonymous
    Fri May 09, 2014 1:42 am
    Budget cuts..so they can two of the last whiteys?

    You can bet they will replace her with some female from APTN...."bingo and a movie"

  6. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri May 09, 2014 1:03 pm
    "jj2424" said
    Budget cuts..so they can two of the last whiteys?

    You can bet they will replace her with some female from APTN...."bingo and a movie"


    Racist much? :roll:

  7. by Anonymous
    Fri May 09, 2014 1:05 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    Budget cuts..so they can two of the last whiteys?

    You can bet they will replace her with some female from APTN...."bingo and a movie"


    Racist much? :roll:

    CBC..racist a lot and sexist too.

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri May 09, 2014 1:39 pm
    "jj2424" said
    Budget cuts..so they can two of the last whiteys?

    You can bet they will replace her with some female from APTN...."bingo and a movie"


    Racist much? :roll:

    CBC..racist a lot and sexist too.

    Quotes, or it didn't happen.

  9. by Anonymous
    Fri May 09, 2014 1:58 pm
    "DrCaleb" said


    Racist much? :roll:


    CBC..racist a lot and sexist too.

    Quotes, or it didn't happen.

    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/29 ... caucasian/

  10. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri May 09, 2014 2:04 pm
    "jj2424" said


    CBC..racist a lot and sexist too.


    Quotes, or it didn't happen.

    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/29 ... caucasian/

    That's one. You said, 'a lot'.

    How about sexist?

    I should state . . more racist and sexist than you, that is. That should be entertaining for about 15 minutes.

  11. by Regina Gold Member
    Fri May 09, 2014 2:06 pm
    This is just a total failure of a business plan or I should say a lack of one. A business that teeters on one component for survival is doomed to fail, which this one clearly has. The main revenue stream should have been used to built other components over the years, and cuts to the money sucking units should have been made long ago or changes made so they are profitable or breaking even. They've created a crater they can't climb out of and will become nuisance channel rebroadcasting reruns from the US.

  12. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri May 09, 2014 2:27 pm
    "Regina" said
    This is just a total failure of a business plan or I should say a lack of one. A business that teeters on one component for survival is doomed to fail, which this one clearly has. The main revenue stream should have been used to built other components over the years, and cuts to the money sucking units should have been made long ago or changes made so they are profitable or breaking even. They've created a crater they can't climb out of and will become nuisance channel rebroadcasting reruns from the US.


    I think they are going to cut to the bone, and keep their profitable stuff. Without Hockey, they'll have to concentrate on News. That means original programming will suffer, and that's too bad because some of the stuff they produce is fairly decent.

  13. by Regina Gold Member
    Fri May 09, 2014 2:29 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    This is just a total failure of a business plan or I should say a lack of one. A business that teeters on one component for survival is doomed to fail, which this one clearly has. The main revenue stream should have been used to built other components over the years, and cuts to the money sucking units should have been made long ago or changes made so they are profitable or breaking even. They've created a crater they can't climb out of and will become nuisance channel rebroadcasting reruns from the US.


    I think they are going to cut to the bone, and keep their profitable stuff. Without Hockey, they'll have to concentrate on News. That means original programming will suffer, and that's too bad because some of the stuff they produce is fairly decent.
    Exactly.

  14. by avatar andyt
    Fri May 09, 2014 2:41 pm
    Original programming went out the window long ago. What were they still doing? Admittedly I can't recall the last time I watched the regular CBC channel. I only watch Newsworld. But jeez, remember the Beach Combers? That went world wide. Maybe you had to live out here to really appreciate it.

    It's news that's also going to be chopped. That is a tragedy. Certainly beats the private networks.

    What about radio - that doesn't bring them a dime. That's what I'll really miss if they make further cuts.



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