{"id":15152,"date":"2015-10-15T07:43:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15152"},"modified":"2015-10-15T07:43:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:43:16","slug":"rci-on-saving-canadas-public-broadcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/rci-on-saving-canadas-public-broadcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"RCI on Saving Canada&#8217;s Public Broadcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CBCbuilding.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3204\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CBCbuilding.gif\" alt=\"CBCbuilding\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CBCbuilding.gif 620w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CBCbuilding-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CBCbuilding-100x56.gif 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader,\u00a0David LW4DAF, who shares this link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2015\/10\/12\/saving-canadas-national-public-broadcaster\/\" target=\"_blank\">from RCI news:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After seven days of walking, a group of supporters of Canada\u2019s public broadcaster, has reached its goal on Parliament Hill in the national capital, Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>The group calling itself \u201cTous Amis de Radio-Canada\u201d is protesting the severe budgte cutbacks to the institution. They, and the English equivalent \u201cFriends of the CBC\u201d say the funding reductions from the federal government have resulted in severe staff reductions in the past couple of years, along with an inability to properly fulfill its role.<\/p>\n<p>The group of marchers and supporters stood on Parliament Hill today after walking about 200 km to arrive in the capital on this National thanksgiving holiday to deliver a message to politicians now in the final stretch of a close federal election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The group says that Radio-Canada\/CBC has always been a vital national cultural institution, and critical source of Canadian viewpoints on world affairs. It notes however, that role is increasingly more important in the light of a globalized digital world, where the voice of Canada as a producer, distributor, and aggregator of domestic and world news from a Canadian perspective, current affairs, and Canadian entertainment, is often swamped by the vastly bigger content from foreign sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2015\/10\/12\/saving-canadas-national-public-broadcaster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading on Radio Canada International&#8217;s news page&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0David LW4DAF, who shares this link from RCI news: &nbsp; After seven days of walking, a group of supporters of Canada\u2019s public broadcaster, has reached its goal on Parliament Hill in the national capital, Ottawa. The group calling itself \u201cTous Amis de Radio-Canada\u201d is protesting the severe budgte cutbacks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[3419,29],"class_list":["post-15152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-canadian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-cbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3Wo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4702,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/rci-action-stop-cbc-from-dismantling-our-transmitters-to-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":15152,"position":0},"title":"RCI Action: Stop CBC from dismantling our transmitters to the world","author":"Thomas","date":"October 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"October 31st is quickly approaching and the CBC has requested that the remaining employees at Radio Canada Internationals Sackville transmission site begin dismantling antennas and transmitters that are not currently being used for their remaining three broadcaster clients (NHK, KBS and the Voice of Vietnam) and the CBC North Quebec\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3325,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/rci-action-committee-what-you-can-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":15152,"position":1},"title":"RCI Action Committee: What you can do","author":"Thomas","date":"April 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: RCI Action) How can you help? 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