A8 - Wednesday, January 2, 1985 - North Shore News

| Radio Canada is proof
| we have gone bonkers!

‘ “= And that’s what I’m doing
a : . over. the CBC budget cuts
. : cand the way they don’t apply

i toe, _ to the CBC’s French. outlets

4 ' “in Engtish Canada. Especial-

‘ ily i in Vancouver.
Broadcasting «in French

7 outside of Quebec is an ea-

‘ pensive: “exercise : in . futility

that’ should be nuked. There

‘was tiever any need for it, but

the’ politicians shoved it down

; “the national throat.

i The-outlets: broadcast : to
ractically, nobody, and ‘cost

“many millions it is difficult to
“discover, because the jolly
sid Corp guards such figures
more jealously than a whore
ence Is.-her: earnings.
Auditor .. Generai
: Dye: could, have -a field day
oing into it all.
The: fail ‘ratings. show that
BUFT — the French station
“has a big
rime-time.’audience” of .500
Yes,;,five--hundred). To be
‘more specific, that rating ap-
liés to the Lower Mainland
etweeh.7 p.m. and 11 p. m.,
Monday ‘to Friday. .
By comparison,. if that’ is
silly a word to use-in

context,

94,300,. -<CBUT ' "122,500,
U

1 obtained the’ fi igures. «from
ne‘ of Vancouver's leading

jauncounted millions. Just how:

Kenneth .

[BCTV has ©
“paper
2,000,; and “CHEK ;

“boost

: federal

OMETIMES THE GORY FACTS are so
outlandish that all one can do is laugh.

In local French radio the
situation is even more

- ridiculous. From 7 a.m. to 7

p.m., Monday to. Friday,
there’s an average of 100.
And even if | was too dumb
to fully understand the cum-
plicated’ breaddown, : the
maximum digure would be
“But that’s not the real
item. The real item is that
Radio Canda,, Vancouver,

employs 58 people, only two

of whom will be dropped on
account of the budget cuts.

Two. :

In Quebec, meanwhile, the
CBC's English division has
bodies being pushed out of
every window, ‘‘Decimated"’
is the word CBC producers
use to describe what is hap-
pening there. And that: in
spite of there being a large
English-speaking audience in
Montreal.

“It's -not:too hard to “guess

“why the French are ‘getting
away with it while the English
are’ once . again .

kicking.
It’s because we've changed

“lorie French guard in Ottawa.

for another.

A headline in a Toronto
.States the case
succinctly:

“French programs to get
despite cBC cuts,
Masse says.’? oan

Masse is Marcel ‘Masse,
communications :
‘minister, making a speech in’). §
Montreal. The emphasis on). J

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- necessary, he said because of
the decline in the viewing in

‘cophone programs. (Not that
it was ever large. How do you

/.get_an audience on the. West
taking a.

side was:

there are no more than
30,000 French speakers in the
whole province, most of
whom don’t ‘bother with
French?) :

Masse ‘insists that ‘the
demands and requirements of
the French-speaking audience
must be met.”

In B.C., meeting the
demands of the French-
speaking audience means that
the staff is almost as large as
the number of viewers.

And you tell me that this
country hasn’t gone bonkers?

et

The Jewish Western
Bulletin reports that Pro-
- fessor ‘Robin. Ridington of
UBC feels ‘‘burnt out’’ after
his horrible encounter with
- the North Shore News and

One of the reasosn for his
gloom is that he’s being inun-
dated by phone calls from
people who do not admire
him...

Lay off the prof, folks. He
knew not what he did.

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