The director of CBC Radio 3, Steve Pratt, spoke to my students taking the first-year undergraduate stream in New Media and Society at the University of British Columbia, about the station’s multiplatform media strategy. Print
PDF Image via Wikipedia An internal briefing note by CBC President Hubert Lacroix on the broadcaster’s financial crisis provides some insights into its future. The note aims to answer some of the questions raised by CBC staff following the announcement of sweeping job and programming cuts. One area that was spared was CBC.ca as it is part of CBC’s digital strategy heading forward and its transformation from a broadcaster into a
CBC asked me to take part their spring training session for CBC.ca journalists. I had two hours to run through how to tell stories online using multiple media. Here are the sites I used in the talk: Example of a print story repurposed for the web from The Vancouver Sun The Great Turtle Race: A project conceived as an online site from the start Example of a repurposed TV script
CBC is reaching out to the Chinese community in British Columbia with the launch of a Chinese-language news service. The website is fairly basic at this stage, with a list of headlines leading to local, national and international stories in simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The stories are picked by staff in the Vancouver newsroom and translated by journalists at Canada’s international broadcaster, Radio Canada International. Print
Image via WikipediaCanada’s national broadcaster appears to be in a state of denial. In a submission to the broadcast regulator, CBC argues that new media is not displacing traditional TV and radio. It challenges the idea that traditional TV and radio use is being displaced as Internet use increases, saying this assumption is false: Specifically, over the last decade per capita hours of Internet use have increased to 10 hours
Image by gak via FlickrFans of the cancelled CBC show, Jpod, are planning to emulate the antics of fans across the border to save their beloved programme. A Facebook group has been set up to coordinate a mail-in blitz to CBC in support of Jpod on May 19th. The campaigners are suggested fans send in a little Lego man or woman in honour of the book’s cover and Douglas Coupland‘s
A tongue-in-cheek primer on how to produce a radio show by host Nora Young and the team at the CBC show Spark. Remember, before you do anything, you need a good idea for a radio show! For more gems, here’s the video. (Via Inside the CBC blog) Print
The CBC is facing a period of upheaval and uncertainty as it pushes ahead with plans to integrate its television, radio and online operations. The Tea Makers blog, run by an anonymous CBC staffer, raises some big questions about the process of bringing together the three mediums. It argues that while the idea may make sense on paper, it overlooks the differences between TV, radio and online in Canada: Radio
The CBC’s project to revitalise its offering in Vancouver is nearly complete, with a major revamp of its local website and a relaunch of its evening TV news show. Vancouver is the testbed for the myCBC project and this is now been extended to other regional hubs across the country. A key element of the initiative is to build closer ties with the community by offering opportunities for citizen-generated content.
The CBC in Canada is following in the footsteps of the BBC and moving towards bringing together television, radio and online. Its English-language services are being formally integrated under one big boss, its current English television vice-president, Richard Stursberg. The purpose is look at ways of having the three media arms work more closely together, such as the CBC is trying out in its integrated news operation in Vancouver. It