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Sunday, June 3, 2001
Hosts: Sheldon Harvey and Bill Westenhaver
SPECIAL GUEST: Wojtek Gwiazda, RCI Producer/Host and sopkesperson
for RCI Action Committee
| Editor's note: Audio problems persist -- I am looking for a new
web-hosting facility.
| Until then, only text program summaries are available for your reading
pleasure.
| Sincerely,
| Ricky Leong
- Rob Reeford is now CHOM's afternoon drive host; Pete Marier joins Andrew Carter in the mornings
- 940 News and Info 690 get new boss: Jacques Pépin takes over from Sean McMullin
- On-air discussion about new 1620 kHz application on CHAA 103.3
FM in Longueuil (and a bit father afield)
> Also online www.chaamf.qc.ca
in Real Audio
> Interventions have been filed with the CRTC about this case
- Tour de l'Île: ham operaters are not active this year due to spat (via Norman Martel)
- Scanner Listening party next weekend during Grand Prix at Seaway Park in St. Lambert
- New website to fight BBCWS's decision to end shortwave: www.savebbc.org
(thanks to Ralph Brandi)
WOJTEK GWIAZDA CHATS WITH SHELDON AND BILL ABOUT THE CURRENT SITUATION AT RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL
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Action Committee website
>> Send your comments to rciaction@yahoo.ca
- A new press relalse was released this week, repeating the call for a moratorium on cuts at RCI
- The RCI Action Committee also called for more transparency in the current decision-making process
- The CBC should respect the accord it signed with Heritage Canada in March, committing itself to continue running RCI and maintaining its level of production, Gwiazda said
- As of this weekend, there is no more news on weekends; the only one working is a technician watching program feeds
- THERE WAS NO BUDGET CUT -- this perplexes many when it comes to the reasons for the cuts
- New weekend programs planned for the fall have a "bureaucratic air"
- RCI changes amount to a wholesale re-organization (RCI management calls it "redeployment")
- "I don't know what redeployment means, I only know the effects,"
Gwiazda said:
> Fewer live programs
> Block system of pre-recorded programs
> More bureaucracy, with the creation of a new producer/manager
position
- "RCI has lost millions of listeners because of short-sighted cuts." It way lose more with the sudden disappearance of morning shows to Europe, Africa and Mid-East and evening show to India
- Difficult to attract media attention because RCI isn't shutting down
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