{"id":4702,"date":"2012-10-17T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T10:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2012-10-17T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T10:37:17","slug":"rci-action-stop-cbc-from-dismantling-our-transmitters-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/rci-action-stop-cbc-from-dismantling-our-transmitters-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"RCI Action: Stop CBC from dismantling our transmitters to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A few of RCI Sackville’s curtain antennas–soon to be dismantled<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Service. To be clear, once this transmission infrastructure is dismantled, there will be no going back.<\/p>\n

RCI Action posted a plea on their website with a request to\u00a0contact Canada\u2019s Heritage Minister James Moore\u00a0james.moore@parl.gc.ca<\/a>\u00a0and tell him to stop CBC\/Radio-Canada from dismantling the Sackville transmitters:<\/p>\n

(Source: RCI Action<\/a>)<\/p>\n

In the next few days the transmission lines that allow Canada to broadcast to the world will be taken down one by one. For more than 67 years Radio Canada International\u2019s shortwave transmitters have guaranteed that Canada\u2019s voice would be heard despite the Cold War, despite natural disasters, and Internet blocking. Now this efficient, cost effective communications tool will be dismantled by Canada\u2019s public broadcaster CBC\/Radio-Canada.<\/p>\n

Those of us who understand how important this lifeline to the world is to world communication are sick to our stomachs at the rapidity with which the broadcaster wants to make the transmitters disappear. Shortwave broadcasts of Radio Canada International ended on June 24, 2012. Other countries\u2019 use of our transmitters will end on October 31.<\/p>\n

But CBC\/Radio-Canada has already started the process of dismantling unused transmitters, and will start taking down still functioning transmission lines very shortly.<\/p>\n

[…]The transmitters are there, they don\u2019t cost much to maintain. Why do we want to cut ourselves off from being able to communicate with the world? Who should be making these decisions?<\/p>\n

Please contact Canada\u2019s Heritage Minister James Moore\u00a0james.moore@parl.gc.ca<\/a>\u00a0and tell him to stop CBC\/Radio-Canada from dismantling our transmitters.<\/p>\n

And please send us any suggestions you may have\u00a0rciaction@yahoo.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The above is a clip for RCI Action’s post, read the full message on RCI Action’s website<\/a>. Please, if you feel strongly about the value of RCI’s Sackville site, contact\u00a0Canada\u2019s Heritage Minister James Moore\u00a0james.moore@parl.gc.ca<\/a>\u00a0and tell him to stop this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Service. 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