lmanchur.
12-31-2000, 07:26 PM
...to answer my own question, it's "Robert Rabinovitch."
Most of you probably don't know who Robert Rabinovitch is, but he is the new president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and I think he's getting a little to comfterable (I can never spell "comberterable" right... I simply destroy the word! :)... anywho... ) with his new job.
He wants to stop the NHL playoffs from "completely destroying our (the CBC's) schedule. The national news at 10 pm should not start at 10:01 or 10:02 or 10:28 (because of the NHL playoffs). People want to see it at 10 o'clock."
Here are some more quotes from an article by the Winnipeg Free Press.
From Randy Turner's article "CBC-style logic a tad difficult to follow" from the Winnipeg Free Press: 12/30/2000
Yet now comes word that CBC head honcho Robert Rabinovitch, after a year at the helm, is threatening to reduce NHL playoff coverage under the guiding principle that Peter Mansbridge's breathless delivery of The National shouldn't be disrupted by, of all things, a hockey game....
But I'd love to be manning the CBC switchboard if they ever cut away from Game 6 of the Leafs and Dalls Stars, enterin overtime, so that Mansbridge can begin reciting the latest developments from the Middle East peace talks.
Hey, if I was interested in reparation and peace, why would I have been watching a blood-lust of a playoff hockey game in the first place?....
One option mentioned in the (Ottawa) Citizen report is that the CBC could buy a minority interest in CTV Sportsnet, which is being unloaded by CTV.....
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the CBC already operate an all-news cable channel that airs The National uninterrupted every night? Don't the majority of CBC viewers have access to CBC Newsworld, thereby allowing them the option of not missing a word of Mansbridge's broadcast?....
Here's a newsflash, Peter: you can wait.
Down with The National!!! Let's watch hockey!
[Edited by SC-Lee on 01-01-2001 at 12:18 PM]
Most of you probably don't know who Robert Rabinovitch is, but he is the new president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and I think he's getting a little to comfterable (I can never spell "comberterable" right... I simply destroy the word! :)... anywho... ) with his new job.
He wants to stop the NHL playoffs from "completely destroying our (the CBC's) schedule. The national news at 10 pm should not start at 10:01 or 10:02 or 10:28 (because of the NHL playoffs). People want to see it at 10 o'clock."
Here are some more quotes from an article by the Winnipeg Free Press.
From Randy Turner's article "CBC-style logic a tad difficult to follow" from the Winnipeg Free Press: 12/30/2000
Yet now comes word that CBC head honcho Robert Rabinovitch, after a year at the helm, is threatening to reduce NHL playoff coverage under the guiding principle that Peter Mansbridge's breathless delivery of The National shouldn't be disrupted by, of all things, a hockey game....
But I'd love to be manning the CBC switchboard if they ever cut away from Game 6 of the Leafs and Dalls Stars, enterin overtime, so that Mansbridge can begin reciting the latest developments from the Middle East peace talks.
Hey, if I was interested in reparation and peace, why would I have been watching a blood-lust of a playoff hockey game in the first place?....
One option mentioned in the (Ottawa) Citizen report is that the CBC could buy a minority interest in CTV Sportsnet, which is being unloaded by CTV.....
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the CBC already operate an all-news cable channel that airs The National uninterrupted every night? Don't the majority of CBC viewers have access to CBC Newsworld, thereby allowing them the option of not missing a word of Mansbridge's broadcast?....
Here's a newsflash, Peter: you can wait.
Down with The National!!! Let's watch hockey!
[Edited by SC-Lee on 01-01-2001 at 12:18 PM]