On May 1, 2013, the director of Radio Canada International (RCI) Hélène Parent and her boss Hubert Lacroix, the president of Canada’s national radio and television public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada were before a Canadian senate committee to explain the 80% budget cut to RCI.
Lacroix made the opening statement before the Senate Standing Committee on Transport [...]
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BREAKING: 6:45PM Ottawa 22:45UTC today CBC and RCI directors to explain 80% budget cut at Senate Committee hearing in Ottawa http://tinyurl.com/cvgwyy2 Radio Canada International
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BREAKING NEWS: Conservative Senator Hugh Segal spoke in the Canadian Senate yesterday, October 25, about the 80% cut to Radio Canada International’s budget, and reiterated his intention to have a Senate Committee ask questions of management about the cuts.
You can read his comments here
We’ll have more details about this later.
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And don’t forget the petition [...]
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Many thanks to U.S. listener and RCI fan Thomas Witherspoon of Ears To Our World (ETOW) for getting this petition out to stop the dismantling of Canada’s only international broadcasting site, the transmitter site in Sackville, New Brunswick. Click on the photo below or this link for details. Thanks to all who have already signed [...]
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See updates below – In the next few days the transmission lines that allow Canada to broadcast to the world will be taken down one by one. For more than 67 years Radio Canada International’s shortwave transmitters have guaranteed that Canada’s voice would be heard despite the Cold War, despite natural disasters, and Internet blocking. [...]
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We’ve been quiet for a while, re-grouping, dealing with the tough situation at Radio Canada International after our 80% budget cut. But we haven’t been totally quiet. Radio New Zealand has just (August 6) broadcast an interview by RNZ’s Bryan Crump with RCI Action Committee Spokesperson Wojtek Gwiazda:
Thanks to Thomas at The SWLing Post for [...]
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Please join us in this new project: “RCI – WE WILL NOT ‘REST IN PEACE’ PHOTO PROJECT – RCI, RIP ? NON !
You have been so generous with your time, in reading, and commenting and supporting us. We are now into our fourth (!) week without radio broadcasting. We’re not happy about this. We don’t [...]
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On the last day of radio programming at RCI on June 24, 2012, some of the newsreaders and host/producers ended their last broadcasts and then shared their reflections on Radio Canada International in this series of five videos.
It was an emotional day. All were professional, but clearly devoted to our international [...]
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Canada’s international radio service started officially on February 25, 1945 with an address by Canada’s Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, followed by Justice Minister Louis St-Laurent (in French) and then by Howard B. Chase, chairman of the CBC board of governors:
With its shortwave towers in Sackville, New Brunswick, the CBC International Service (as it [...]
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It’s really hard to know what to say. We’ve been working so hard these last few days at Radio Canada International, to hang on to our listeners with so few resources, even though many are not there, because of the end our our radio programming on shortwave on June 24, 2012.
And now, for four days [...]
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