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Ratings? They don't need ratings! They're on CBC - they have taxpayer dollars.

Air Farce's biggest mistake was that its producers believed that what worked and was funny on radio would automatically be so on TV.

I listened to bits of it when it was aired on Sunday afternoons. I found it occasionally amusing but it wasn't enough to make me a regular listener and certainly didn't persuade me to watch when it moved onto the telly.

"I used to watch that show twenty years ago and thought it mildly amusing, then they went full on crazy and I haven't watched in since." Same in our household.

Bingo!

The so-called humour in that piece might make a 12-year-old laugh but why should that be surprising when that's the level at which the federal cabinet itself functions.

I tried watching the movie Mallrats the other day, more out of morbid curiosity than anything else.

I switched it off after half an hour. It was non-stop profanity and crudity, none of it in the least bit funny. Oh, and there wasn't any plot to speak of, either.

On the other hand, the movie Animal House was hilarious. I still laugh when watching it because, while I was a university undergrad, I actually knew people like the ones portrayed in it.

I used to like Murdoch Mysteries. It was originally produced for City TV,but then it became a CBC program. It became nauseatingly politically correct when it went to CBC and we don't watch it anymore.

"I used to like Murdoch Mysteries. It was originally produced for City TV,but then it became a CBC program. It became nauseatingly politically correct when it went to CBC and we don't watch it anymore."

The production values have gone up but, you're absolutely right, the stories have started getting very creaky and tedious now (sorry, folks, Toronto police constables at the turn of the 20th Century didn't have the means to zoom off to Paris with showgirls).

Worse though, is that new "Frankie Drake Mysteries", trying w-a-a-y too hard on the feminist-cum-diversity front and also depicting 1920s Toronto as something it never was.

Montréal in the Twenties, maybe, but not Toronto The Good.

Mareen: You are so right about the AirFarce. Rick Mercer has past his prime...not funny anymore!! We don't watch CBC at all. As far as I'm concerned CBC should be privatized then maybe the owner could turn it around otherwise...put it in the garbage can!!

I remember seeing a few episodes of Wojeck years ago. Was it a CBC show?

Indeed it was. I remember the ads for it on CBC TV about 50 years ago.

Air Farce? Only Dave Broadfoot made me laugh, regularly.

Bobby Clobber, now there's an interview I can listen too over and over.....

The CBC is a massive failure as an experiment, it was done over 20 years ago, but no one told the Libs, they still think they can shove "Canadian Culture" down everyone's throats, willingly.

The CBC is a massive failure as an experiment, it was done over 20 years ago

I think it was much longer than that. It was still worth listening to during much of the 1970s with shows like As It Happens (particularly when it was still live-to-air on Monday nights--no two timezones had the same program!), 90 Minutes With A Bullet, Morningside when Don Harron was the host, and Sunday Morning. On the FM side, there was Mostly Music, Bob Kerr's Off The Record, and Ideas.

By the mid-80s, CBC had changed its program lineup. AIH was still trying to find its way after Barbara Frum went over to do The Journal on CBC TV. 90WAB became "60 Minutes With A Bullet", moved to Saturday mornings, and then went off the air for good. Harron left Morningside, Peter Gzowski took over, and show became flaky after that. One show, though, that was still worth listening to at the time was Ideas, largely because of Lister Sinclair and his staff, but it had moved to CBC Radio.

But, by then, there was a move in the CBC to go for ratings. For example, CBC Radio dropped the Saturday afternoon opera programming and replaced it with rubbish like The Radio Show and, later, Definitely Not The Opera.

That became apparent by the mid-1990s. I stopped listening to As It Happens after Alan Maitland retired and because I can't stand listening to Michael Enright behaving like a pompous ass on the air. Sunday Morning mutated into, well, something and it didn't help that Enright showed up on that show, or whatever its replacement was, from time to time. Bob Kerr retired. Mostly Music eventually went off the air when CBC Stereo (or was it Radio Two by then?) started changing its programming again.

I think the CBC really started declining after that strike of a dozen or so years ago. I stopped listening to it on the radio except for Quirks and Quarks, Ideas, and the Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts.

Now, I just listen to the opera (it was Turandot on the Met Opera broadcast earlier today). I had enough of Q & Q when it kept yammering about "climate change" and Ideas went all leftist on me.

At least now I've got podcasts (such as The John Batchelor Show) and Internet radio (such as The Space Show) on my computer and Sirius XM in my pickup truck.

I was being MOAR than generous..........yes it’s been more than 20, much more.

Other than by accident, I never listen to the ceeb, ever, not for many years. On occasion while driving, I’ll scan the AM dial for fun. Never listen to AM at home, its all streaming tunes of one sort or another. Anyways, AM is a wasteland now of leftie whining from the ceeb or NW98 or Cfax. When the scan stops at ceeb, it never takes more than a few minutes before it’s whining about some victimization cause, or climate change, or some other lefty dirge

However, this morning, caught the end of Michael Campbell’s money show. Surprising NW hasn’t banned him, he’s the only sane voice on that station. His pod casts are very insightful, although a bit stock promoter heavy.

Whining is the word. I stopped listening when CBC radio became so depressing. In Gzowski days, CBC was quite engaging. It has really gone down hill. Now it's one sob story after another.

Enslaved press is never a failure; not for the people who would be tyrants anyway.