inCommunicado - eric eggertson

What chance does CBC’s management group have of containing future discussion of its future direction to an internal visioning type of exercise?
Answer: None at all.
The corporation’s recent  eight-week lockout of most of its employees has drawn the attention of politicians, pundits and employees.
For anal control freaks, that kind of attention would be a problem.  […]

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As part of the work resumption effort at CBC near the end of an eight-week lockout, the union has apparently agreed to ask its members to remove "negative references" about the lockout and CBC from blogs, podcasts and web sites.
Good luck.
As Tod Maffin, publisher of the remarkable CBCUnplugged.com blog, says in his posting "I will […]

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After years of treating "temporary" workers like crap, CBC management has finally agreed to do the right thing and treat them like human beings. CBC and its union signed a deal overnight, setting in motion a return to work (subject to ratification by union members).
I was dubious about the Canadian Media Guild’s resolve in defending […]

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Toronto media blogger Antonia Zerbisias posted an item yesterday about veteran foreign correspondent Paul Workman losing his gig in Paris next June in favour of David Common, who in the past three years has been doing more and more national and international reporting.
For Workman, it looks like a hard slap for refusing to file stories […]

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There has been a lot of posturing before and during the lockout of CBC employees this summer and fall.
But the loudest statement was the action taken by management moments after the Canadian Media Guild’s strike mandate became legal. Without a by-your-leave, management changed the locks, locked out the workers, cancelled health benefits and maternity leaves, […]

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In my last CBC post, I neglected to mention CBCUnlocked.ca, a site maintained by locked out CBC journalists who want to wipe the journalistic floor with the wire copy filling most of the CBC.ca website.
I’ve given up on radio news. Pretty much given up on radio altogether these days. The Unlocked site helps with my […]

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No one elected technology journalist/futurist Tod Maffin president of the embattled CBC, but he’s willing to share his ideas for how he would make some changes if he were put in charge.
Maffin’s Sept. 13 podcast My thoughts on the future CBC vision is one of the best items posted on www.cbcunplugged.com, the popular blog he […]

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Update:  O’Reilly’s show has finished its run on CBC Radio for now.  No word on whether there will be future broadcasts.
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As part of its summer programming, CBC Radio One is running a weekly half-hour show about the advertising world, hosted by Terry O’Reilly, a writer and director of radio ads and frequent commentator/speaker.
O’Reilly On Advertising […]

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After 28 years with CBC Saskatchewan, Noon Edition host Lindy Thorsen bade farewell to his listeners April 1. And as often happens on his province-wide phone-in show, he had to roll with things. The prospect of a network announcement about the Pope’s condition threatened to cut off his final show, but in the end Lindy […]

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Since last summer, I’ve had a thing for Promo Girl, the saucy voice that runs teasers for various CBC Radio programs. Unlike the staid Corp, Promo Girl is lively, off-beat, young and willing to take a risk.
Okay, I know the voice and the writing are done by two different people, but I can dream, can’t […]

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