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RCI Cuts: pink slips – no clear strategy for Internet

(Source: RCI Action) April 25, 2012: Facing the reality of job cuts in any workplace is hard enough. When you’re an employee at Radio Canada International – it’s more than a job. It’s more than just a job loss. Most … Continue reading

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RCI listener comments carry common theme

On RCI’s Listener Letters and the RCI Action committee‘s website, you can read listener reactions to the looming RCI cuts. To their credit, I’ve noticed that RCI programs (like The Link with Marc Montgomery) are continuing “business as usual.” I’ve noticed … Continue reading

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RCI Action Committee: What you can do

(Source: RCI Action) How can you help? How can you help stop this drastic cut of 80% of Radio Canada International’s budget? Please write to Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, and Canadian Heritage Minister James … Continue reading

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The Gazette: CBC cuts gut cherished international service

More attention to the cuts at RCI from The Gazette of Montreal. This article features quotes from my friend, Sheldon Harvey of the CIDX and the International Radio Report: (Source: The Gazette) MONTREAL – Lost amid the auditor-general’s report last … Continue reading

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The Gazette: Tributes to RCI pour in from around the world

A sampling of messages to The Gazette in response to the cuts to Radio Canada International (RCI): (Source: MontrealGazette.com) “This is absolutely dreadful. RCI has been one of the best shortwave radio stations and a much-needed voice of solid, objective … Continue reading

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CKUT’s International Radio Report sheds light on RCI cuts

Sunday, concerned as I am about the deep cuts to RCI’s (Radio Canada International’s) vital radio programming, I listened to CKUT‘s International Radio Report with much interest.  Hosts (and good friends) Sheldon and Janice were joined by Wojtek Gwiazda, RCI … Continue reading

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RCI’s Sackville towers to be featured in film

(Source: CBC) A Moncton artist is now working against the clock to film the Radio-Canada International shortwave towers in her latest film project. Budget cuts at CBC announced last week mean the towers, near Sackville, N.B., will soon be shut down, … Continue reading

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All In A Weekend: Bon voyage to David Bronstetter, from an unlikely listener

I believe it was in the fall of 2007 that I first tuned to the enlightening CBC Montreal program, All In A Weekend, with host David Bronstetter. Unlike listeners in Montreal, or anywhere in the province of Quebec, for that … Continue reading

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RCI’s “The Maple Leaf Mailbag” mentions the SWLing Post

You can’t imagine how honored we are that Ian Jones of Radio Canada International’s “The Maple Leaf Mailbag” (and the Rock’n Roadshow) mentioned our site on the MLMB! Here at the SWLing Post we blog about an innovative technology that … Continue reading

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