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Save the BBC World Service in North America and the Pacific! - 03/13/2003: "Reality catches up with the BBC"
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Thursday, March 13, 2003. Reports today that the BBC is going to be scaling back its investment in the net. Some of the BBC's websites are likely to close as the corporation cuts back on its online investment, BBC new media director Ashley Highfield admitted today. In the last two years, the BBC's web traffic has more than doubled from 4.2 million users to 8.5 million. Hmmm, where have I read that expenses increase as the audience increases? Oh yeah, right here. Posted by Ralph Brandi. Proving that the b...
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Getting a new job and taking on more projects at home means occasionally having to say you're too busy to continue another weblog. The BBC World Service discontinued its broadcasts to North America as of July 1, 2001. I am still not happy. Home cut off 850,000 subscribers the first weekend in December, 2001, but forgot to change their home page. Me thinks they needdc to clear their minds. So, apparently, did the stock markets. I had the oddest sensation. While reading a book some years back. In much the ...
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One of the effects of the cuts planned for June is the elimination of all personnel on weekends. From Friday afternoon until Monday morning all RCI newscasts will be eliminated. This despite RCI s mandate to explain Canada around the world on a daily basis. IMPACT IN OTHER LANGUAGES,. See also the latest updates on the Home Page. COMITÉ D'ACTION DE RCI. Defending Radio Canada International - Canada's Voice to the World. Media coverage of RCI.
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COMITÉ D'ACTION DE RCI. Defending Radio Canada International - Canada's Voice to the World. E-mail from CBC President Robert Rabinovitch to staff of the domestic radio and television service and to RCI staff. April 18, 2001. Over the next year, we will undertake a fundamental re-evaluation of our international service and its mandate in the new multi-media environment. In cooperation with the government, we will determine the needs of and our obligations as Canada's public broadcaster with respect to...
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Weblog from 2004 - Window into a deteriorating situation - Radio Canada International - RCI Action Committee
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Seven Days a Week - Defending Radio Canada International - Canada's Voice to the World. COMITÉ D'ACTION DE RCI. The RCI Action Committee Blog was started on February 2, 2004,. The day RCI management announced its latest repositioning. If you have a comment, or a suggestion, write to us at:. Letter from a Friend: Who really gives a crap anymore? As I read his letter, I could feel the ebb and flow of the tiredness we have all felt over the last 13 years, faced with one crisis after another:. Sheldon has fo...
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About Us - WHATS THE RCI ACTION COMMITTEE?
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COMITÉ D'ACTION DE RCI. Seven Days a Week - Defending Radio Canada International - Canada's Voice to the World. Media coverage of RCI. WHAT S THE RCI ACTION COMMITTEE? The Committee started in 1991 as the Coalition to Restore Full RCI Funding. Together with listeners and supporters, the Coalition fought attempts to shut down RCI in 1991, 1995 and 1996. It has presented several briefs to parliamentary committees in Ottawa, and was behind the creation of a Senate inquiry into the 1991 cuts at RCI. The ques...
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Suspension - Radio Canada International 2008
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Unfortunately, in the last year and a half, RCI s international mandate has been radically changed to focus on broadcasting to new immigrants in Canada, and has re-directed resources away from the core mandate of telling the world about Canada. By taking this action, CBC/Radio-Canada is not only interfering in internal union matters, but the public broadcaster is attempting to muzzle the Syndicat des Communications. This is unacceptable, concluded the union president. For more on the mandate of RCI, the ...
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What's Going On? Canada's Voice to the World Under Attack - RCI Action Committee
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What s going on at RCI? This page will be updated - eventually - thanks for your patience. Latest news on RCI's international mandate. When we celebrated the 60th anniversary of Radio Canada International in 2005 (see. There were more changes to the structure and programming of Canada's Voice to the World. In the meantime, here are some of the recent developments since 2001:. In 2001, Radio Canada International radically cut back on news and live programming under what it called a Redeployment Plan.
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RCI Action Committee - Defending Radio Canada International
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COMITÉ D'ACTION DE RCI. Defending Radio Canada International - Canada's Voice to the World. RCI's Mandate to broadcast to international audiences was reaffirmed in 1980 and 1994. The mandate of RCI to explain Canada to an international audience is explained in the Corporate and Program Policy of our domestic service the CBC and guarantees RCI will reflect the spectrum of Canadian viewpoints on national and international views fairly and accurately, with a particular concern for balance. He omitted to inc...
