Weird goings on at CBC Regina;
CBC National News with Peter Mansbridge gets introduced on the broadcast originating in Regina tonight at 10 pm. Mansbridge begins his intro of the lead story – the Ralph Goodale RCMP Investigation.
No sooner has Mansbridge begun, but commercials start running instead. This goes on for several minutes, returning to the feed only when reporter Caroline Dunn is wrapping up her report.
Mansbridge moves to an interview with Goodale. Less than a minute into the interview, commercials start running again, returning to the feed only at the very end of the interview.
After this, there are no other broadcast problems.
Commentor “Mentok”* caught it, too.
Update Blogging Blue put a call in to the CBC… and is still waiting for an explanation.
I watched the CBC news here last night Kate and it didn’t happen here in Manitoba. It must have been a filtered broadcast, for the voters of his constitunicy. Hmmmmm, now why does that not suprise me, when your talking CBC.
Peter Mansbridge repeatedly asked Goodale last night about ministerial responsibility, Goodale was evasive, even saying he investigated his own actions and was satisfied that he’s done nothing wrong. What a joke! No Liberal accepts ministerial responsibility for anything, but we have a Prime Minister who saw nothing wrong with his CSL receiving a total benefit of over $162 million at taxpayers expense. I guess he had to pay the loan somehow, typical Liberal exploitation of Canadians.
Mansbridge and the rest of the MSM were basically forced to look at the IT Scandal, but they still have not or will not look at short sales in the period preceding Goodale announcing that he was going to be looking at Income Trusts.
Posted by Bruce Randall at December 29, 2005 09:12 AM
YA think Goodale had the signal jammed?? Naaaawwww even I’m not that paranoid about the ability of the dark force.
“Peter Mansbridge repeatedly asked Goodale last night about ministerial responsibility, Goodale was evasive”
Yeah – and the list of Liberals that should step down but haven’t continues to grow.
If the Tories form the next government, can they call CSL’s ‘loan’?
I had my PC Recorder on as soon as Mansbridge started talking. If you want to view it, I put a 5MB size file on my website which is sorta large but pretty clear for viewing if you have high speed.
I heard the same thing about Saskatchewan and figured I should do my part to help spread the word on this news story.
Usually I would say that this was a coincidence, after all you see people make mistakes behind the camera on TV all the time. The thing that bothers me is there are so many coincidences at the same time:
(1) It happened twice, on essentially the same story
(2) It’s a localized problem which only effects the area where Goodale is running for re-election
(3) It is on the Network which has shown an obvious preference towards the Liberal party.
If it happened once, nationally, on Global’s “the National” I would just assume that some intern accidentially pressed the play button after setting up the comercials (or something).
this is normal in cbc (cuban leg).
It ran in full here in Ontario. Mansbridge must have asked four times why Goodale wasn’t following historical parliamentary etiquette and step down until the investigation cleared him. Goodale must have recently attended dance school the way he two-stepped around the question. I have to at least say that Mansbridge did stick with it and ask him over and over and called him for not really answering the question. He would only say he felt no responsibility for the affair and that he would be vindicated after the review. Hmmmm… self-investigating. Sounds like business as usual over at Lib headquarters. I kept waiting to hear him say, “Let Mr. Gomery finish his investigation before I have to quit”
TrustOnlyMulder:
And your website’s URL is?…
Garth just click on trust only Mulder
I saw the interview and the only thing more astounding to me than Ralph’s obvious discomfort (he umm.. sounded like a umm… grade-school kid caught in a lie to the umm.. principal) was Mansbridge’s obvious anger that Ralph wouldn’t abide by historical parliamentary procedure.
Libranos are so %#$*@ arrogant to think they can be the accused, judge and jury. Wait till the CPC forms the next government and turns a few stones over!!
The CBC working for you!
I just read about this … so I thought you should know!
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So, what is the role of the GG when a Minister of the Crown and the PM refuses to follow parlimentary tradition? I would think that if this happened in Great Britain the Queen would advise the PM in no uncertain terms during their weekly(?) meetings what must be done.
Theres something bugging me.
On tuesday, Stephen Harper made a substantive policy announcement. I read about it in our local paper on Wednesday.(i live in B.C.) On wednesday, Harper made further policy announcements.
Does anyone in ROC know what these policy statements were?
I AM NOT A CROOK!!!! repeat often, wave arms, repeat, I AM NOT A CROOK !!! etc. jesus wept
Canadians will be stunned (just as they have been since ’93) after a Conservative victory reveals sleaze, corruption and outright criminal activity in the billions of dollars under every government rock. The only way to a truly open investigation is to throw the liberals out and replace them with a new government. That is the liberal’s worst nightmare and the reason why they are fighting so hard to retain power.
Iron Lady says: “If the Tories form the next government, can they call CSL’s ‘loan’?”
I don’t know about that, but I’m pretty certain they can and will ensure there are ways and means and people who can uncover the corpses and bring the Libranos to justice…
One more time folks . . . . Canadian Corporate mainstream media have been the enablers of Liberal corruption to exist in Canada for the twelve years past.
The question now is, will they continue to back the corruption in this election by endorsing the Libs?
My husband and i were not surprised by the cbc’s “technical difficulties”. The first thing i said to him was “I bet this just happened in Saskatchewan”.
The entire interview was aired in Alberta. Gooddale looked stupid on it. He kept repeating the same line one how the RCMP said there was no evidence linking him to an alleged leak. Kudos to Mansbridge. I didn’t think he had the guts.
Someone should call CBC Regina and see who did the censoring there.
Has anyone from Regina contacted the ombudsman about this? I would love to hear his explanation of how this localized and very suspicious technical difficulty occurred.
Hey, if this was ‘just an accident’ then the CBC employee needs to have his salary slashed.
….the CBC walked out a few months ago, the gov’t caved in and gave them a pay hike and for what? Quality technical excellence. Hey guys, if you screwed up in the booth then why not just do what any reputable broadcaster would do with a highly rated broadcast? Air it again.
Will they air that interview again? Will it show up on the local CBC news for the benefit of those in SK who missed it the first time? Not bloody likely.
I gotta be honest. It really does make SK look like we have no clue when it comes to technical excellence, quality media or ‘a good performance’. After all, we think a fax machine is just a waffle iron with a phone attached….
Funny. That part of CBC was outsourced to a control room somewhere in Toronto. They cut the guys who used to work at CBC English Television in Saskatchewan at 10 pm. No one’s there.
But do keep looking.
Kate:
CBC Vancouver (“CBUT”) – which is carried on Seattle-area cable TV systems – ran last night’s The National without interruption for several minutes.
In fact, I wrote my reply post at Captains’ Quarters just moments after seeing the Mansbridge interview with Mr. Goodale.
In short: Viewers in Vancouver – and SEATTLE, U.S.A. – got to see the whole interview without CBC Regina’s amateurish and/or sinister commercial insertions.
The full interview was shown here on Vanc Isl…and i was quite surprised…Mansbridge found a pair!
You people obviously know nothing about broadcast automation software or how the CBC signal gets from point a to point b from coast to coast.
Chances are when someone was coding the logs for the station there was an error that cut the national feed short and triggered the next element in the playout system.
This kind of stuff happens all the time (just watch local CTV across Saskatchewan… commercial breaks frequently slam in to local news programming because of hard timings across the network). Same thing happens on the radio when you’re listening to CJME or CKOM when the news gets cut short. It’s all a coding error in the software.
Then again, for the blogosphere, life without a conspiracy wouldn’t be the same, would it?
– A Button Pusher
seems obvious that pravda cut the interview in the only place where it could do damage.
anywhere that the votes dont count directly to Mr. Goodale, Pravda could put the interview up in full.
where it is damaging , propoganda by ommission.
not to worry only 7% viewship, and if you took out the bunch that have to watch ie the north. the viewship would be less than 5%, divide the billions spent on its crappy service and send it directly as a cable bill to the “pseudoelite” subcribers and see if they would pay their $3000 cable addition service bill.
I think if the CPC wins, they had better move in pretty quick, because there will be a lot of paper shredding going on election night and they’ll come up with precious little despite turning over all the rocks. The scope of the absolute waste will never be known, but I am pretty sure it is huge.
Okay, word from within CBC is that Mansbridge refuses to vote in elections. If this is the case, this guy is one poor example to Canadians.