[Newsbot]

Title: CBC turns its eye to the 24-hour news clock
Category: lifestyle
Posted By: dino_bobba_renno
Date: 2009-06-16 04:00:57
Canadian

[romanP]

And there goes any thought of quality reporting at CBC News...

[LightStarr]

No, bad CBC, bad! What will happen to all those kick ass docs that are late at night. Bad CBC. No tax dollars for you.

[sandorski]

LightStarr LightStarr:

No, bad CBC, bad! What will happen to all those kick ass docs that are late at night. Bad CBC. No tax dollars for you.

CBC has a 24 hour documentary channel. Been getting it on TelusTV and checked it out a bit. Won't be subscribing(every month TelusTV shows a channel or 2 for 1-2 weeks that subscribers haven't subscribed to), but it seems decent enough. Had an interesting Documentary about the East German Trabant earlier that was very interesting.

[LightStarr]

I don't have cable and move too much

[sandorski]

LightStarr LightStarr:

I don't have cable and move too much

Satellite probably offers it.

[Proculation]

Doesn't CBC already offer a 24/7 news channel ? We have RDI here since maybe 15 years.

[ridenrain]

More of the same crap isn't better.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Proculation Proculation:

Doesn't CBC already offer a 24/7 news channel ? We have RDI here since maybe 15 years.

Sort of, it's "on" 24 hours but it plays a loop. I for one would love to see a 24 hour news network in Canada but would prefer if it was a private company like CTV.

[romanP]

Proculation Proculation:

Doesn't CBC already offer a 24/7 news channel ? We have RDI here since maybe 15 years.

CBC Newsworld doesn't update after 11pm, I think.

[Scape]

Don't we have ctv newsnet and cbc newsworld already? I don't want another 24 hour channel that can be condensed into 20 minutes segments on an endless loop. I'm sick of that and the ones we do have are becoming Nancy Grace gab fests that are just below the food chain of ambulance chaser in my book because they just sit there and yak instead of doing the footwork themselves.

It's lazy, it's cheap and it's BORING. I want some real meat to chew on like a frontline documentary. What the hell happened to shows like W5 or 60 minutes, they are staffed by geriatrics!!

[dino_bobba_renno]

Scape Scape:

Don't we have ctv newsnet and cbc newsworld already? I don't want another 24 hour channel that can be condensed into 20 minutes segments on an endless loop. I'm sick of that and the ones we do have are becoming Nancy Grace gab fests that are just below the food chain of ambulance chaser in my book because they just sit there and yak instead of doing the footwork themselves.

It's lazy, it's cheap and it's BORING. I want some real meat to chew on like a frontline documentary. What the hell happened to shows like W5 or 60 minutes, they are staffed by geriatrics!!

Now that would be great to see. Some type of hard hitting investigative journalism.

I think you're right though the more I think of it. Look at CNN/HNN. Even though they're 24 hour the shows they fill the time with really don't add much. Nacy Grace (as you mentioned), Lou Dobbs, and other of their likeness are really what's wrong with US news media.

[commanderkai]

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

Sort of, it's "on" 24 hours but it plays a loop. I for one would love to see a 24 hour news network in Canada but would prefer if it was a private company like CTV.

How about CTV Newsnet? Same idea, right?

[LightStarr]

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

I think you're right though the more I think of it. Look at CNN/HNN. Even though they're 24 hour the shows they fill the time with really don't add much. Nacy Grace (as you mentioned), Lou Dobbs, and other of their likeness are really what's wrong with US news media.

They have a show about twittering them. End of flippin' story. We don't need that. Especially when our tax dollars fund the CBC.