In response to that other thread,
Who’s the boss on CBC? SRC? RCI?
Al Mateland and Peter Gzowski were all-stars. But you don’t hear much out of them anymore.
What do the legions of Canuck dopers have to say on this one? Or is it true that nobody under 65 listens to CBC?
(And if it’s a local host/contributor, please specify.)
Actually, I know a lot of 20-40 demographics who listen to MotherCorp. I’m 40, and grew up on it: Max Ferguson’s “Rawhide,” “As It Happens,” Metropolitan Opera on Saturdays, always in the car on long Saskatchewan raod trips (I think back then there weren’t many other stations, anyway!).
I really miss poor old Clyde Gilmour. And Alan MacPhee, who was the greatest Loki/anarchist the CBC will ever know…do you remember he used to refer to “all the listeners out there in Vacuumland?”
And above all, CBC Radio News.
Can’t stand most CBC Radio drama, though; never have. Don’t like the new “Definitely Not the Opera” dumbing-down of the CBC, either.
CBC TV hasn’t been the same since Howdy Doody, Roy Rogers and Cannonball were cancelled.
I miss Barbara Frum, Maitland, McPhee and This Country in the Morning host what’s his name. A few weeks ago there was a two-hour radio show out of Toronto giving Lister Sinclair of Ideas a tribute. I was amazed to discover that Sinclair (not Gordon Sinclair) is only 79 or 80. Every speaker said they thought he was 80 when he was 20. Apparently he looks like he did 60 years ago! The guy’s intellect towers and his accomplishments go off the scale.