Anyone know when the next season of Someone Knows Something by David Ridgen comes back?

Can it just be me? Anybody else?

Moto G Power running Android 14.

Who does the programming?

We are starting the morning with a report of a shooting at a Jewish school. Following that a discussion about a 13 year old in Kelowna violently attacked by multiple people.

These are important issues that we need to talk about but fuck. Do we really need to start our Sunday morning depressed? We haven’t even started the day and the first think we are thinking about is depressing horrible shit.

Why does cbc do this so much?

A year later and they are still trotting out the same BS that Isreal is “trying to eliminate Hamas” and “has a right to defend itself. Absolute garbage coverage, and it leads virtually every news break.

Was listening to The House on CBC radio yesterday morning. What the heck? The HOC is currently shut down on government business until they release incriminating documents to …. ITSELF. A massive scandal being buried by the LPC NOT A WORD ABOUT THIS ON CANADA’s PREMIER POLITICS SHOW. This is a slap on the face to politically informed Canadians. In the CBC trying to commit suicide?

Tariq’s afterdark is miles above o-Radio’s. One gets the sense that o-Roboto neither likes nor even listens to the satellite radio playlist that he plays. Generic Odario filler: “Aw, yeah. Just how we all feel: [insert lyric from album liner or lyric search]. Humans, like we totally are, really get those feels.” Tariq’s playlist reminds me so much more of the well-missed Laurie Brown’s contemporary ear-bending sound. Considering that Odario is so obviously already canned, recording his entire set in about nine minutes of terrible filler, I would love to hear the mothership actually can him to have Tariq provide that brilliant sound eight nights per week.

The CBC has been, and forgive me here, shitting the proverbial bed when it comes to the promotion of interesting contemporary artists. Odario plays some, but it comes after a long transition, like Shift, out of r&b and rap and pop to eventually land on some excellent new sounds before signing off for nightstream (which is near the only place I can turn for the introduction to stellar Canadian artists, and presumably shouldn’t be as something of a ghostship in the night). Short of resurrecting the Signal, which I regretfully admit after years of coming to terms is an impossibility, perhaps our Corporate Broadcaster could fatten Tariq until like a vicious gosling the better afterdark takes over the timeslot and even those useless bits on either side of it.

Just a thought. And, if the mothership is listening, I’m not sure whether Tariq has an alternate musical producer or whatever it is in the secret sauce, but more please and forever.

People are tragically disappointed by the CBC’s efforts to branch out to cradle all of the ‘disenfranchised.’ The bough has broken. It’s time to promote musical excellence again. Combat the Conservative defund campaign by knocking the raw asses off your listenership, with sound.

As I type I'm listening to a fun conversation on language.

I grew up on Vancouver Island. A short ferry ride away is an island. About 6000 residence at the time, I'm not sure what the population is now.

In school, the young kids would be bused to the island. I recall many of the kids had various words and phrases that were unique to them in conversation. I've always thought this is how language evolves. We like to create what's regionally unique to us.

Has anyone experienced this?

As for the grammar or word police, I've always taken a back seat. 99% of the time, I understand what's typed here, so I've always ignored it. My practice in interpretation comes from my elderly Mom misspelling texts and whatnot.

It's a fun topic, but not one I'll ever lose sleep over.

I was listening to As It Happens today (live on the radio) and at the end of the segment on the Woodstock message tree being cut down, they played a cover of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" song. I missed who was covering it, and when I went back to the website to replay it and hear the name of the person/group covering it again, it plays a totally different (lyric-less) song and they cut out them saying who preformed it! Did anybody catch who it was?

Just listened to the 6pm news "The World Today" or whatever they call it now. They reported on a story stating that the Prime Minister was nearly tossed from the H of C ( hyperbole) while failing to report on Garnet Genuis' comment (homophobic) that JT was responding to. Talk about a total media failure.

On this mornings feedback segment they chatted about a previous episode on notebooks. Someone know when this episode aired?

Heard a clip this morning on OM with Ramraajh saying he'll no longer be with the show and that a new permanent host will be announced soon. Here's hoping they get it right this time.

Is she coming back to do Tues-Fri? I haven't been listening consistently.

Occasionally a guest is brought on the air to discuss a difficult subject. In the cases where there Is a left and right position, the guest is always from the left. There is never anyone to explain, counter or defend the right’s position. It’s unbearable to listen to and downright unfair. I’ve listened to the Early Edition since high school and now that I have a developed my political beliefs it’s clear to me what they’re doing. I was naive before.

This is why defunding makes sense to me. Or they could always make fair news and I have no problem supporting that.

I remember that CBC produced a series of podcasts episodes (although I’m not actually sure if it would’ve been called a “podcast” back then) with each episode telling the history of an individual jazz artist.

Does anyone else remember these? They were great! Likely from the early-mid 2000’s.

Wondering where I can find an archive of the episodes?

The first quarter of the 2024-2025 fiscal year has presented CBC/Radio-Canada with a mixed bag of financial results, posting revenue of $115.7 million, which is a 3.0% decline from the same period in the previous year, when revenue stood at $119.2 million.

https://thedeepdive.ca/313-million-in-government-funding-drives-cbc-stability-despite-advertising-slump-in-first-quarter/

I am new to this subreddit so apologies if this has been talked about already but this was bothering me so much I had to make a post.

Does anyone else find this host almost impossible to listen to? I looked it up and I believe it is Amanda Pfeffer. I find her extremely aggravating to listen to. The way she talks, she says umm and uhh every 2 seconds. I find the questions she asks to the callers are very weird as well. She also has a very annoying voice in my opinion.

To give context I was listening to the Paralympics episode today in the car and had to turn it off because of her. She sounded like she had no idea what she was talking about or what to say.

I am wondering if it is just me that thinks this?

So it’s the first day after the traditional holiday season and the first segment on q is an interview with Ethan Hawke and his daughter about a southern American writer, Flannery O’Connor. Why sooooo much non-Canadian content on CBC so-called flagship CBC shows? Why sooo much content on racism, the Jim Crow era in the US? It just seems endless.

I understand that there is merit in discussing theses issues and learning about some American history is important in general but this is not the mandate of the CBC.

The problem with interviewing Americans is that they talk in their own context and from their own experience, naturally, and there are assumptions about collective understandings and misunderstandings about their history that would be fine for NPR but not on CBC without effort to link to Canadian experience, with Canadian commentary.

Here is a reminder of what the mandate of the CBC is:

The Act further states that our programming should:

• Be predominantly and distinctively Canadian; • Reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences, while serving the special needs of those regions; • Actively contribute to the flow and exchange of cultural expression; • Be in English and in French, reflecting the different needs and circumstances of each official language community, including the particular needs and circumstances of English and French linguistic minorities; • Strive to be of equivalent quality in English and in French; • Contribute to a shared national consciousness and identity; • Be made available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means and as resources become available for the purpose; and • Reflect the multicultural and multiracial nature of Canada.

I love the CBC. I want the CBC to succeed in achieving this mandate but their whole programming effort needs a shake up, a wake up call, that recalibrates the current offers to to focus on our selves. The national programming is terribly Toronto-centric and focuses on a few boutique issues endlessly from any and every possible angle. I listen to the call-in shows, Under the Influence, the early morning weekend show from Halifax, The Current (a bit). Otherwise I find and choose the best programming from other international public broadcasters, podcasts and music streams.

I joked with my son this summer about listening for key words during random CBC programming around the clock. Difficult for an hour to go by without checking off four or five key words and ideas no matter the subject. This included some late night and early morning content from the international broadcasts. We were on the road early to go fishing in NS and to get to do various airport runs. It’s just ridiculous.

Perhaps people are listening, perhaps audiences are growing, but I think the word on the ground is that they are absolutely not. Happy to hear otherwise.

Carol Off talks about her new book and all that is news. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/carol-off-loss-for-words-1.7311255

Hi, I'm wondering if regional programs are available as podcasts on Spotify or not. I listen to On the Coast while driving on 88.1 and wonder if I can access a podcast of it when not in the car. I know national programs such as Quirks and Quarks or World Tonight are on Spotify.

Former Canadian “Jeopardy!” champion Mattea Roach will a new books-oriented show named “Bookends" that will replace “Writers & Company” on Sundays at 1:00 p.m.

Eleanor Wachtel will host a final episode of “Writers & Company” on Sept. 1 to discuss Roach’s new role and show.

https://stalbert.ca/events/calendar/arden-theatre/the-irrelevant-show/

Is anyone else riveted by this Podcast? The past few days, the Current has been playing episodes of the podcast about abuses at St. Michaels residential schools. It is so well done but so abhorrent. Tomorrow is the last (I think) installment of the podcast. I am on the edge of my seat.

I have tried to save the World Tonight to my favourites on the CBC app. For whatever reason it defaults to Kelowna and I don't seem to be able to chose a different the city. Nothing against Kelowna, but I don't live there, it's not even in the right time zone. Is it me? Is there some way to do this?