CBC Radio Insite

I meant to link to this a while ago: earlier this month Peter Rukavina over at ruk.ca pointed out The Coolest CBC Resource You Don’t Know About — the Insite system.

Build a New CBC

Earlier this week, I received a mass email from Ian Morrison at the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. This is what he had to say:

FRIENDS has learned that the federal government is poised to announce a new round of budget cuts, despite its $9 billion surplus. CBC is a target, even though two House of Commons Committees — Finance and Heritage — have called for increased stable funding for CBC.

Unless we act now, CBC could suffer yet another in a long line of funding cuts that have taken a tremendous toll, especially at the grassroots.

Tonight I took a few minutes to write a letter to the Prime Minister, expressing my concerns. I encourage you to do the same. The Action Centre makes it easy, addressing it to the PM, Liza Frulla, Minister of Canadian Heritage, and your local MP.

Applications, more music

It seems like most of my time these days is spent trying to make myself sound impressive and clever.

I’m working on a total of five pitches/applications, including my internship application for the summer 2005 term on This American Life (due February 1), a pitch for my senior practicum project (due this Friday), a simultaneous pitch to Outfront, an idea for the CBC Radio program development group (I heard from Chris Boyce today), and possibly a submission to Ideas (also due this Friday).

And by way of an update to my entry about radio scoring, here are some more soundtracks I’ve been enjoying: Jon Brion’s work on I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Magnolia, plus Mark Mothersbaugh tracks on The Life Aquatic.

Northern Exposure

After reading The Lowedown in this week’s Coast, I listened to the first two episodes of Doug Gordon’s New Audio Showroom. Particularly liked the “This Canadian Existence” show. You can listen to all three shows online in RealAudio.

And speaking of RealAudio, I’ve gotten rid of RealPlayer, and am now listening using Real Alternative.

The same song over and over

Heard this today and thought it was funny. From NPR’s All Things Considered, Music Fan Pokes Fun at Nickelback Song Similarity.