The silence at Radio Canada International this morning was deafening.
Everywhere you looked, empty desks, silent studios, and the knowledge that we are now embarking on a road so very different from what we’ve ever known in the past. We have weathered innumerable cuts of people, programmes, language sections, finances. And we’ve survived, sometimes it seemed [...]
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RCI’s Russian Section, was one of the services totally abolished by the 80% budget cut of Radio Canada International announced on April 4, 2012 by our national public radio and television broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada.
As the team reminisced about the service, the atmosphere was both melancholy and jovial.
В последней передаче RCI на русском языке сотрудники русской [...]
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Friday, June 22, 2012, was the last day for the daily radio programs at Radio Canada International (RCI) as a result of the 80% budget, and the end of radio programming at Canada’s Voice to the World.
Among the goodbyes to listeners, the following one from Marc Montgomery, host of the English language daily show “The [...]
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As Radio Canada International (RCI) broadcasts its last radio programming after 67 years as a broadcaster, the RCI website is in chaos. Apart from the home address www.rcinet.ca no other web addresses for programs or audio links are working.
The only way to find the last programmes of all the services is to go to http://www.rcinet.ca [...]
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It was the last day for many Radio Canada International employees today, June 22. The daily English program “The Link” and the daily French program “Tam Tam” broadcast their last editions today. And the teams for some of the pre-recorded weekend programs also signed off and said goodbye to listeners as RCI stops being a [...]
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Less than an hour ago, the Ottawa Citizen newspaper published an article by journalist Chris Cobb titled: “Tory senator wants CBC called on carpet for slashing shortwave service”
The first paragraph reads:
Unless the CBC rethinks its “utterly reprehensible” decision to eliminate Radio Canada International’s shortwave service, its senior managers will be called to explain the decision to a [...]
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Envoyé au Ministre du Patrimoine canadien, James Moore, le 13 juin 2012 , texte source en anglais:
Monsieur l’honorable James Moore,
Il y a un peu plus de 24 heures nous avons appris au sein du Comité d’action de RCI que le 7 juin 2012 vous avez changé le décret en conseil qui dicte à CBC/Radio-Canada ses [...]
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Two news stories, one from the Ottawa Citizen newspaper link, and the other from the Canadian Press news agency link, are focusing on the fact that Canada’s Heritage Minister James Moore changed the 2003 Order in Council regarding Radio Canada International programming. On June 7, 2012, the obligations for RCI to broadcast on shortwave and [...]
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We sent the following e-mail to Canada’s Heritage Minister James Moore on Wednesday night.
From: RCI Action <rciaction@yahoo.ca>
To: “james.moore@parl.gc.ca” <james.moore@parl.gc.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:54:46 PM
Subject: Why did you change the Order in Council?
Hon. James Moore,
A little more than 24 hours ago we at the RCI Action Committee found out that on June 7, [...]
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Why would a Canadian government minister decide to cut off uncensored news from Canada to China and Russia? That’s what we’re asking ourselves today.
We’ve just learned that last week the 2003 Order in Council that obliged Radio Canada International to broadcast on shortwave radio has been amended, and that obligation removed. As well, the obligation [...]
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