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RIP Stuart McLean
CBC News;
Stuart McLean, the host of CBC Radio's The Vinyl Café and an award-winning humorist, has died at age 68 after a battle with melanoma.
McLean's trademark blend of storytelling — part nostalgia, part pithy observations about everyday life — and folksy, familiar delivery made him a hit with audiences for more than 20 years.
Stuart McLean, CBC Radio host and award-winning humorist, dead at 68
"We need a new approach to supporting culture in Canada."
The BBC offers a compelling example of how a strong, stable, well-funded public broadcaster can serve the interests of domestic audiences and diverse communities, support the global ambitions of its creative and cultural sectors, and provide a strong foundation for Britain’s creative economy.
Through a combination of a cohesive culture strategy and sustained culture investment over many years, Creative Britain is now a crucial part of the British economy, British culture is stronger than ever and the BBC is a global symbol of quality.
A CREATIVE CANADA: STRENGTHENING CANADIAN CULTURE IN A DIGITAL WORLD
The CBC is important to Canada. Making it completely publicly funded is a step forward. I hope the Canadian Government is wise and supports this.
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"Where once the CBC's newscasters put on a brave face about doing more with less, now it's becoming clear that the CBC's governmental paymasters expect it to do a lot less with less."
The BBC had planned to clear the online rights to the vast quantities of material in its vaults, and change its commissioning so that any new material would also be pre-cleared. This material – a rich, publicly funded archive of the nation's collective cultural memory – would have been put online under a generous, creative commons-style licence for Britons to download, share, remix and re-contextualise decades' worth of material both beloved and forgotten.
What Canada's national public broadcaster could learn from the BBC
"Get used to a lot less CBC."
...the CBC should aim "to avoid excessive commercialism and to encourage Canadian content and the use of Canadian talent" in order to focus on its main goal: telling the stories of Canadians to Canadians.It's those stories that knit a country together. And that's really tough to do when you're readying to cut back evening newscasts and shut down in-house production of documentaries altogether at a downsized public broadcaster.
7 ways CBC helped build the Canada we know today
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