My other reasons for wanting Radio Gabriola are related to CBC Radio, and how it seems to be getting worse in so many ways. Sure, there are a couple of good shows, but CBC is mostly Radio Boring and Radio Annoying now, as far as I can see. I could go on and on about the decline in programming standards, but instead let me point you to a post on Boing Boing for a whole different kind of rant about the CBC: CBC totally fails to explain why it expects Canadians to get permission to use public media. See if that doesn’t make your blood boil.

I love the idea of having a public broadcaster in Canada, but the CBC is now so bad that I don’t see why they should have this role or the associated funding.

Anyway. I’m sure that a Gabriola radio station could out-perform the CBC in many ways, so I hope the CRTC will approve Gabriola Radio’s next application.

Update: Related link: CBC’s Leaked Survey.

(At least that’s what the email from Pages Resort and Marina tells me.)

If you miss it, I bet you’ll be able to find the interview on CBC’s All Points West website in a day or two; then you can listen to it online.

Update and rant:

I listened to CBC for most of those two hours, and holy smoke, that is one boring radio show. Most of the content consisted of Vancouver traffic reports, blabbing about some stupid hockey thing, and horrible, horrible music. I finally had to turn it off, so I don’t know if our Gabriola writers were on the show or not… although I doubt it.

The CBC used to be wonderful, but now it’s become so much like commercial radio that I don’t see why we would want to fund it with tax dollars anymore. What’s the point? You want good radio? Listen to BBC Radio 4 on the web.