Ever after the “elusive youth market” the brain dead folks at the CBC are killing the vast majority of the shows on CBC2. I am listening to Andy Sheppard as he bids farewell from Afterhours. Two hours of jazz from 10-12 midnight. Much too boring for the “elusive youth audience.”
It is rather pointless to note that the current, no doubt geriatric, audience is going to be looking for alternatives. And, of course, the ‘net provides them. In spades. From music downloads to streaming audio.
If the CBC actually had a bit of intelligence it would have moved incrementally to increase its audience by retaining the existing audience and recruiting more. Instead it is simply taking the current service and scrapping it.
Which is sad.
Written by jay on March 17th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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At about 11:00 AM pretty much every morning my friend Kevin Grace phones me. We talk of the latest lunacy of the Tory party or the most recent idiocy propagated in the Children’s Crusade Against Global Warming. Lately we have been talking about computers. Specifically Kevin’s computer. If you would like another reason not to install Vista Kevin has about $1200.00 worth of them,
1. Vista installed (30 January). 2. Computer stops working. 3. Intensive telephonic consultations with Microsoft. 4. Video card replaced. 5. Further intensive telephonic consultations with Microsoft. 6. Microsoft washes hands of problem and me… KMG
To say that Vista is a piece of crap is an understatement. I have never seen an OS actually destroy a perfectly ok computer. But I watched as Vista fried Kevin’s. There was active malice at work here. Which is sad in that Kevin has spent many an hour bending my ear about the virtues of Microsoft. He eschews Firefox, blogs with Frontpage (I could not make that up and the proof is in his post). But this has torn it; there is every possibility that if the poor man ever gets any money he will buy a Mac.
While Vista was running on Kevin’s machine I had a look. Several billion lines of broken code to produce a pale imitation of OS-X. Microsoft could well go down as a result of this piece of crap. I can’t imagine anybody will miss it.
Written by jay on March 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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