Canadian Heritage committee  You could add to that that the senior officers of the corporation should be culturally informed. We now have people in the senior levels of CBC who know nothing about the arts, nothing about music, and I wonder how they reach their decisions.

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly, National Public Radio does that. But I think the problem here is that CBC doesn't think it's accountable to anybody, not even the listeners and viewers.

Canadian Heritage committee  If they really want to do that, they should hire some of the officials from CBC; they could reduce their audience very quickly.

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, they will lose income. This is a very expensive town in which to live, and that loss of income could actually see some of those musicians moving out of town.

Canadian Heritage committee  I was going to say that the only power you have is financial.

Canadian Heritage committee  With rare exceptions, the quality of sound from the average computer is not suitable for classical music.

Canadian Heritage committee  When the CBC was created, the government went out of its way to protect it from political interference. That has become a problem, because it makes it difficult to get the CBC to respond to any outside suggestions on how it should conduct itself. I think the government needs to f

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. When I joined the CBC in 1976 as head of radio music, there were CBC radio orchestras in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Halifax. They produced dozens and dozens of studio and remote recordings a year. The stereo network, now called Radio 2, was a

Canadian Heritage committee  My name is Robert Sunter, and I'm also an individual--most of the time.