Here are some ideas to help the CBC TV get through the impending lockout:
- Play reruns of This Hour Has 22 Minutes over and over even though the actual context of the news parody is entirely lost.
- Get your interim news reporters to only report from one point of view.
- Play lots of movies from the late 1990s we have all seen already.
- Put a really dull, stiff, slightly sweaty guy in charge of the nightly news.
- Limit your news commentators and panelists to the same twelve people.
Comments
Mike - August 12, 2005 10:49 AM
Crack open the archives and have an Early Canadian Television spree: Adventures in Rainbow Country; Forest Rangers; old Reach For The Top and Frontpage Challenge episodes; Wojeck; Berton's The National Dream. Forget that Jimmy MacDonald satire, we want the real old stuff.
And who can forget those hot and steamy "Take Thirty" episodes?
"Adrienne Clarkson has blindfolded Paul Soles in order to test her co-host's "excellent" sense of touch."
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-112-1441-9408/1960s/1965/clip1
Alan - August 12, 2005 10:53 AM
Wojeck - he was cool. You forget DOn Messer reruns. Oh. That was done already back in 1995 to 1999.
Flea - August 12, 2005 12:09 PM
The answer: 24 FleaTV.
Arthur - August 13, 2005 12:08 AM
24 FleaTV.
I keep reading 21 Jumpstreet.
cbcemployee - August 14, 2005 8:17 PM
i work at cbc..... if only we were in control of the contigency plan!
unfortunately, a lockout is a lockout. ie: as of monday 12:01 am i may not even be allowed in the station!!!
wish us luck against the corp.
-cbc-er.
Alan - August 14, 2005 8:36 PM
Clenched fist salute!!!
Another CBC'er - August 15, 2005 2:23 PM
Get the word out, phone your MP. Demand they get us back in the building, and working for you, the tax payer. You the taxpayer deserve excellent programming, which is why you listen and watch. PHONE, EMAIL, FAX your MP, PLEASE !!!
Donna - August 15, 2005 7:41 PM
I, too, am on the picket line. And I'm hearing this could be a long one. Be sure you know both sides of the issue: Canadian Media Guild's side and The Corporation's side.
The main issue here is not money. It's job security, especially for newer folks like myself. Management wants to hire most future employees on contracts, while the union wants to maintain permanent jobs.
andrew tan - August 15, 2005 7:47 PM
CBC off the air??? words cant start to describe my immense joy
im am so SICK of CBC's anti-US, anti-corporation, pro-terror, pro-environment views. I hope & pray CBC goes bankrupt....oh
wait...it already is since it spends $1 billion/ yr of the
tax payers money to keep it alive.......
David Janes - August 15, 2005 8:25 PM
Must ... stop ... from ... becoming ... American. Feel ... need ... monge ... war ... (etc)
I do miss the World @ 6.
Alan - August 15, 2005 8:27 PM
I miss Tony van Dam, <i>The Maritime Gardener</i>...but that was cancelled in the 80s.
CBC'er & taxpayer - August 15, 2005 9:29 PM
The CBC is presently using $1.2 million dollars per day of taxpayers' money from savings of locking out 5500 employees for their own use of ever expanding management. They do not plan on returning this money to the treasury board as they have not done so in the last 5 work stoppages created under the presidency of Robert Rabinovitch. We believe that this money shopuld be returned to the Treasury Board while we try and negotiate a fair settlement to return to work and produce good Canadian content as per our parliamentary mandate. Please call your local MP & ask for your Canadian taxpayers dollers back. If you don"t they will keep it."
David Janes - August 16, 2005 7:25 AM
How about "Johnny Chase, Secret Agent of Space"!
SayNay? - August 16, 2005 12:22 PM
There's a "labour" lockout at CBC? OMG - I haven't noticed! How will this country - which the CBC is aiding and abetting in its apparently sole cohesive effort: which is its determination to become a sorry excuse for a pimple on the ass of the US - stay the course? Any chance someone could "misplace" the key. Like, forever?
Karen Dickson - February 11, 2006 2:52 AM
How can I get copies of Johnny Chase secret agent of space. Just a wild shot when I did search for this sci/fi and pulled up David James. Can anybody help?