ONE OF THE interviews I did this morning, for CBC's Toronto Morning show, Metro Morning, with the venerable Andy Barrie is up and available for download.
I have to get a better phone.
Andy's questions were really great -- and he's very informed on the subject. I think it's a pretty good interview. Listen and see if you agree.
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Great interview!
Can it play on a loop during the hearings?
Excellent. I'm glad you got a chance to address the half-truths in the ad campaigns and what the suits at the hearings should have been focusing on, namely the internet, iPods, direct downloads -- this being the 21st century and all.
Great interview. Lively and clear.
This thing makes me think of the sequence in Ice Age where the dodos fight over the last melon. A movie I can buy from Amazon and download straight onto my Tivo...
Thanks Denis. I've been a bit lost in the dark on the whole subject, but your interview and posts have really helped clarify exactly what's going on.
What both sides really need to recognize, is the potential profitability in the providing of options to the consumer, rather than backpedaling towards an archaic system that nobody wants. Stick 'em in a closet and nobody comes out until they can get along, I say.
Loved your analogy about the oil industry and lamps, hehe.
There's an interesting article about all this in the New York Times. The author bought a Blu-Ray device and discovered it has wi-fi net abilities. He downloads everything he watches now except football. But everything he downloads is a conventional tv product. Not a YouTube web series. He did raise a point about the level of quality of the conventional tv shows versus what is available on the net. With the demise of conventional tv, will all product sink to the lowest, cheapest denominator? A plethora of reality shows and poorly produced YouTube webisodes. Who would be making Mad Men? The Tudors? Lost? House?
I think we still have a far road to go before this is all settled.
And in terms of internet and downloading. Who do you think owns the pipe? The same people arguing before the CRTC now. And if you look at a contract with the broadcasters, you have to sign away all internet and other media applications when they pick up your show. They already have web channels. This is merely an argument over who deserves the biggest piece of pie: the pipe or the content.
I'd like to see the feds throw the gates wide open, get rid of simulcasting, and let us have access to foreign BDUs. It's called competition.
Great interview, DMc!
One of the most interesting parts of the conversation, however, was that Andy Barrie, a CBC employee, obviously "gets" what you were talking about.
How come his bosses don't?
At all levels of CBC, CTV and CanWest, there are intelligent people eager to innovate and move their companies forward. But they are blocked by those in the corner offices, who can't think outside the box and thus are obsessed with self-preservation.
How many potential game changers does the CBC lose every time there is a round of cuts and those doing the cutting make sure their executive level remains untouched, unchanged and not forced to evolve?
I have thought that the plan was to allow the CBC to die through attrition. Seems to be working pretty well.
As for the fight over money in Gatineau, I think I'll investigate the digital antennas on sale. Like the days of yore, when our Detroit antenna received Windsor's CBC station and I could watch Wojeck.
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