tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162738000034202372.post6221129650765444683..comments2023-03-28T13:38:47.209-04:00Comments on CBC Radio Two & Me: CBC Radio 2 market share: the BBM "Fall" surveyJames Wootenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11932289702872433813noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162738000034202372.post-53189618070784438292010-03-23T03:31:49.677-04:002010-03-23T03:31:49.677-04:00Excellent entry, and interesting analysis...
To a...Excellent entry, and interesting analysis...<br /><br />To add another dimension, however, it would be interesting to see a broader demographic breakdown. (Purely anecdotal and not empirical, but since the relaunch, a many people with whom I'm acquainted in my age group - late 20s/early 30s - have started listening to Radio 2, and the ones I've met who are unhappy are generally the older classical listeners.<br /><br />The raw numbers alone simply don't give the whole story. There are many dynamics with any radio station's rating.<br /><br />(unrelated side note - Radio Canada has some brilliant music programming on espace musique.)XM301https://www.blogger.com/profile/08379573605282024472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162738000034202372.post-76506139008729525102010-03-16T09:16:49.302-04:002010-03-16T09:16:49.302-04:00In response to the last comment made: I don’t thin...In response to the last comment made: I don’t think we’ll ever see CBC Radio 2 return to the previous format. An institution that had endured for decades was destroyed in a few short months in a frenzy of change management that at times seemed to me to have all of the characteristics of a Stalinist purge. Even if CBC management recognized its error, could we get Danielle Charbonneau to return to CBC Radio? Or Howard Dyck? Or Jurgen Gothe? Or Eric Friesen? I believe that the CBC Radio 2 that we once knew is gone for good. All that we can do is to continue to try to highlight the mistakes that were made, in the hope that the CBC Board of Directors, Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage or the Minister of Heritage take notice.James Wootenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11932289702872433813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162738000034202372.post-1692649166503610112010-03-14T10:26:10.513-04:002010-03-14T10:26:10.513-04:00Keep at it James! We know that CBC likes to re-wr...Keep at it James! We know that CBC likes to re-write history when it comes to failures, so we can't rely on them to be honest when the chips are down.<br /><br />How much longer do you think this will go on before they quietly put the old schedule back? <br /><br />I believe (I'll have to check my files to be sure) when the changes were implimented 18 months ago, they said drop was expected and normal and we would expect to see things improve within a year.<br /><br />Well, it's over a year and things aren't improving...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162738000034202372.post-50115203198604635892010-03-12T20:38:23.584-05:002010-03-12T20:38:23.584-05:00There's a typo in the title of your post - I t...There's a typo in the title of your post - I think you meant "the BBM FAIL survey". How sad that CBC Radio has lost both audience and relevancy in this attempt at reorganization.Chris Foleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05248396106719265480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162738000034202372.post-31350449900213056132010-03-12T14:15:33.566-05:002010-03-12T14:15:33.566-05:00Good to see you're still at it James! Thank yo...Good to see you're still at it James! Thank you for providing this analysis. It seems that by no measure, statistical or cultural, can the new Radio2 be deemed to be anything relevant to Canadians. Radio2 used to be the station that gave Canadians rich Canadian content, unique, and mostly outside the mainstream. We heard our stories, met our authors, actors, directors, choreographers, musicians, composers, philosophers, and creators in countless other disciplines, and we heard their work. Canadians wait for our national broadcaster to let us hear them again.John Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09044963515952062303noreply@blogger.com