Leonard Cohen on CBC WATCH: Leonard Cohen – “Hallelujah” (Video) Leonard Cohen‘s new record and DVD, Live in London comes out today, (March 31), and it’s currently streaming (in whole or in part) on spinner.com, NPR.org, and CBC.ca. The CBC is also doing a couple of interesting things for the launch of this album, including…
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CBC Makes Cutbacks, Radio 3 Emerges Relatively Unscathed
Facing a downtown in advertising to the tune of $171 million CDN, the venerable Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has just announced a series of cutbacks to its television and radio ventures: About 400 employees are being laid off from the CBC’s English-language service, 335 will depart the French-language arm and 70 are being cut in…
Mamma Yamma & Friends
Though I usually leave it up to Drake to report on all the latest developments in kiddie rock, this new CD from Canada’s Mamma Yamma & Friends seems to have slipped under his radar. Since 2007, Kensington Market’s Mamma Yamma, (a giant yam puppet and staple of Kids CBC), has been serving up a bevy…
CBC Loses HNIC Theme Song to CTV, Calls On Canadians to Create New Hockey Anthem
In what practically amounts to a crime against humanity, the CBC has walked away from the famous Hockey Night In Canada theme song it used for 40 years in a dispute over royalty payments with the composer. In order to fill the gaping void, the public broadcaster has begun accepting submissions on its website for…
R3TV Takes On Indie Comedy
Shane Nelken (of The Awkward Stage) is your host for the latest episode of CBC Radio’s R3TV podcast featuring top independent comics: Patton Oswalt, Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry, Dave Foley, Tim and Eric and Mary Lynn Rajskub. By the way, the new record from The Awkward Stage called Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights is due out…