Comments on: Inside CFCF 12

By: CFCF Open House 2: Open Housey-er – Fagstein

CFCF Open House 2: Open Housey-er – Fagstein — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:38:59 +0000

[...] if you can't make it, you can just read about what last year's open house was like. Tags: CFCF | Short URL for this post: [...]

By: Chris Sobieniak

Chris Sobieniak — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:50:52 +0000

At least you had fun. These days a TV station's offices/studios in your town don't really do anything besides news anyway. I can go back to my childhood when there was still something being made like a quiz program or a kiddie clown show I saw daily. That sort of thing is gone now, and it's rather sad how limited the whole "I wanna work in the TV biz" has gotten to boot.

By: Fagstein » Inside Global’s CKMI-46

Fagstein » Inside Global’s CKMI-46 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:06:18 +0000

[...] couldn’t pass up an opportunity to attend an open house for a TV station (I went to CFCF’s open house in May and I saw CBC’s Montreal studios when I was an intern there in 2004), so I went downtown on [...]

By: Bickerbros

Bickerbros — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:27:13 +0000

I PVR Pulse News at 6 everyday, mainly for the laughs. The fact that Mitz (who should have retired long ago) and Todd (who can't pronounce one sentence without sounding sarcastic) always seem to be taking week-long vacations at least once a month proves that only one warm body is needed in the anchor chair. Otherwise, the newscast seems to be filled with reporters -most of whom act like the show is one big inside joke- and production values (editing/captions/Talkback Montreal e.g."do you like snow?") straight out of high school.

How about more than just 10 minutes of REAL local news and less of us having to watch Laurie Graham showing off Siimon Chang's latest creation? Why do we need to see the exact same weather report TWICE in the span of 20 minutes when I can just switch to MeteoMedia anytime I want?

How the show expects to be taken seriously is beyond me.

By: habalaba

habalaba — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:10:38 +0000

Maybe they should "can" Takahashi? Why the fk do they need two anchors ????
her lethargic newsreading totally puts me off....

By: JulieBob

JulieBob — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:06:55 +0000

cbc is buying that Yank crap to print money to pay for the rest of it's money-losing operation.

By: jd

jd — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:09:49 +0000

When you see the news daily two thirds of it overall is fillers. Rarely ctv montreal has any real news to report if they do the other news networks are on it and ctv ratings are poor. An insider at ctv said that they send the same survey to the same people for years and base there ratings on the 10000 that fill it out. With regards to Annie reporting the story why are people going on about high heals etc whats that got to do with anything and by the way she is married did you not notice the ring on the hand

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:40:13 +0000

As much as Canadians (and cable companies) hate simsub, it represents a lot of money for broadcasters, and they're not about to give that up. And since there's little anti-simsub lobbying (U.S. broadcasters have no voice, regular Canadians don't care except during the Super Bowl and when American Idol goes long, and cable companies have bigger fish to fry), don't expect it to go anytime soon.

By: Horonymous

Horonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:28:58 +0000

Bonus sign me up. Does that also mean that simultaneous substitution goes away?

Guy you're a awesome resource.

By: Beeg

Beeg — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:18:27 +0000

Supers... not the CC. Quite often related to the use of the apostrophe, which as a feature of English is kinda stupid and antiquated, but nevertheless!

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:46:42 +0000

The networks have indicated they'd be willing to forego mandatory carriage in exchange for the ability to charge fees.

By: 2 wheel writer

2 wheel writer — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:36:15 +0000

Typos in the closed captioning? That's because it's outsourced to another company, and those typists are going like crazy -- just like a court stenographer.

Typos in the supers? We try very hard to avoid that.

By: Horonymous

Horonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:55:09 +0000

Bob you won't have a choice when it comes to deciding what local stations you wish to subscribe to, the service providers are required by the CRTC to carry local stations. If I could choose I would only pick up the CBC, Rogers & OMNI Stations. I live in the Toronto area but am from Montreal.

Don't how this will impact time shifting. I enjoy the west coast feeds of the US networks.

With all this talk about local TV I 'am serious thinking about ditching Rogers, putting an antenna for free HDTV signal and buying a Free To Air satellite. Funny how the call it Free To Air when we are hijacking signals from the US.

Only Canadian specialty channels I will miss will be Newsworld & Showcase.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:47:16 +0000

Apparently, CTV & Global want a clause to waive their requirement to produce local programming inserted into the fee-for-carriage deal. In that case, what's the point? I don't want CFCF airing a schedule that is 100% syndication. Perhaps they're spending too much money outbidding each other for rights to air US shows. Even worse is CBC using taxpayer money to buy the rights for Wheel and Jeopardy - shows that are already available.

By: James

James — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:54:32 +0000

I wonder if CanWest might be inspired to do the same thing with their Global offices at 1600 Maisonneuve East...

"And this is the green screen where the computer in BC morphs in an enormous studio.... and this is the green screen where the computer in BC morphs in lots of journalists and control room screens. And this is the green screen where the computer in BC morphs in a weather presenter in Ontario..." etc etc etc

By: bob

bob — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:27:55 +0000

The save local campaign by CTV and Global is great. I just wished that cable and satellite companies let consumers pick and choose what channels we want. Right now, the way they bundle and package channels, consumers end up with channels we don't want or watch and we have to pay for them. That is wrong. That is the real tax on TV. Let consumers decide.

By: Wayne Dayton

Wayne Dayton — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:03:25 +0000

The mascot is named "Jellybean" in homage to the 1960s "Johnny Jellybean" show produced at 405. Who can forget "Doctor's Diary" with Lawrence McNally, the head of the ER at the Lakeshore General (now in Texas)...the 70s version of Mitch Shulman but less grating and sanctimonius. Of course Annie Demelt (the queen of Ste-Foy area girl's soccer) has to wear tight-fitting above-the-knee skirts and heels...she just might meet a rich older man at any moment and find her escape from the tedium of daily news (it worked for Cynthia Drummond, Ginger Jones, Rosemary Parrett, Lin Eleoff, etc., etc.). On that note, however, most cable systems in the States pay a small fee for carrying broadcast signals on to their subscribers, so I see no reason why the likes of Videotron, Rogers, and Shaw should not do the same.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:15:26 +0000

My paper is fighting for its own survival (well, its owner is, anyway). And I am cynical.

But we're working under the premise that CFCF is in danger of being shut down, a premise that I don't accept without some evidence.

By: Stephane

Stephane — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:09:49 +0000

I wonder if you'll be so cynical when your newspaper will fight for its own survival.

By: Jeremy Szafron

Jeremy Szafron — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:24:14 +0000

It's too bad that local programming is slowly dying... Previously some shows would showcase amazing things that happen in this city, ultimately highlighting how great Montreal is! Today the newscast's simply cannot allocate enough resources to cover all of the stories... I really hope local content starts to flow again... I think television needs to represent an audience that is hungry to see themselves represented through this beautiful form of media...