{"id":18207,"date":"2014-04-11T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T15:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=18207"},"modified":"2014-04-11T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T15:40:11","slug":"cbc-announces-cuts-to-classical-music-programing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/04\/11\/cbc-announces-cuts-to-classical-music-programing\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC announces cuts to classical music programing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-11-at-11.09.26-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18208\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-04-11 at 11.09.26 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-11-at-11.09.26-AM.png\" width=\"874\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-11-at-11.09.26-AM.png 874w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-11-at-11.09.26-AM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-11-at-11.09.26-AM-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cbccuts&amp;src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> has been alight with an outpouring of lament in response to the CBC\u2019s announcement yesterday that a total of 657 jobs will be eliminated due to a $130 million funding cut initiated by the Harper conservative government. Cuts will primarily affect recorded concerts, 12 regional music producers, hosts, engineers, and Radio 2\u2019s \u201cIn Tune\u201d will be eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/modularpages\/dynamicPage.aspx?pageUrl=In-Tune&amp;permalink=In-Tune\">In Tune<\/a>&#8221; is a classical music program hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/users\/profile.aspx?name=Katherine-Duncan&amp;permalink=\/profile\/Katherine-Duncan\">Katherine Duncan<\/a>, who is a classically-trained musician, singer. It is the CBC\u2019s only weekly national classical music news show.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the termination of three network jobs,\u00a0CBC Radio One will see no programs affected by the cuts.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Ottawa Citizen, Marc-Philippe Laurin, president of the Canadian Media Guild, who represents nearly 5,000 CBC employees, said the cuts showed the network was at a \u201ccrossroads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been ringing the bell for years,\u201d Laurin confessed. \u201cIt\u2019s a systematic dismantling of the public broadcaster and the services it supplies to the real stakeholders, which is the Canadian public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on CBC\u2019s The Current, VP of English Services Heather Conway admits she didn&#8217;t know how dire things were when she took the job last October.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, I hope the CBC can use this crisis as an opportunity to remind people that without adequate public funding, the CBC\u2019s days are numbered. One can hardly imagine ourselves without them.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts go out to all those affected by these ruthless and misguided cuts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Vincent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has been alight with an outpouring of lament in response to the CBC\u2019s announcement yesterday that a total of 657 jobs will be eliminated due to a $130 million funding cut initiated by the Harper conservative government. Cuts will primarily affect recorded concerts, 12 regional music producers, hosts, engineers, and Radio 2\u2019s \u201cIn Tune\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,39,50],"tags":[678,4554,4553],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-11-at-11.09.26-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-4JF","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18207"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18218,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207\/revisions\/18218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18207"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}