Talk:CBC Music

message: (207.164.187.115 (talk) 21:51, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you calm the hell down? Nobody's intentionally putting false information into the article; the schedule just didn't get properly updated in September. Bearcat (talk) 22:01, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I know you are a big-wig around here bearcat, but is this the  right way to welcome wanabe wikipedians into the family? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:50, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  All I did was ask somebody who had actually and unironically typed a string of 14 exclamation points at the end of their comment to calm down. And kindly note that the discussion took place over a year ago — does it really seem worth the effort to you to comment on it now? Bearcat (talk) 21:50, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct information deleted 

message: Just wondering why the equivalent article for BBC attracts almost 10 times more views than this one:
BBC_Radio_2 has been viewed 134,999 times in 2010. 
http://stats.grok.se/en/2010/BBC_Radio_2
CBC_Radio_2 has been viewed 17,780 times in 2010.
http://stats.grok.se/en/2010/CBC_Radio_2
Just curious and would appreciate anyone's speculation. Ottawahitech (talk) 17:25, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Beeb2 is the single most-listened-to station in the entire United Kingdom, and as such it has cultural influence well into Europe as well. Whereas CBC2 can't claim the same kind of status and cachet in Canada; the dominant commercial stations in the biggest cities probably get larger audiences in their home markets alone than CBC2 gets nationwide. Which isn't a criticism of the CBC — Beeb2 actually plays a relatively conventional, mainstream adult contemporary format that's closer much of the time to CHUM-FM than it is to CBC2 (I just looked at their website a few minutes ago and their top music feature at the moment is Taylor Swift). But even the "popified" version of CBC2 is still doing a predominantly non-mainstream specialist format that more closely resembles NPR Music — that format suits me just fine most of the time (well, Strombo/Terfry, anyway), but my taste in music ain't exactly the most commercially popular stuff that mainstream radio audiences are usually looking for. So Beeb2 is probably the single most influential radio service in all of Europe, while CBC2 isn't even the most influential radio service in Canada, let alone internationally. Bearcat (talk) 21:51, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why so much less popular than BBC? 

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message: Maybe they have not informed the on-air personalities, but they're still calling it CBC2 as of February 25, 2018. When is the change in name to take effect? Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:37, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Whenever I've listened to R2 since the changeover was announced, I've always heard the announcers saying CBC Music (although some of the station ID breaks were still saying Radio 2 sometimes), so perhaps you just heard a host slipping into an old habit. DJs are just talking, not reading from a prewritten script, so sometimes they might slip and refer to it by the old name that they're used to saying instead of the new one that they're actually supposed to be saying now — I can personally attest, for example, that one time a few years when I was home visiting my parents for Christmas, I heard a DJ on one of the local radio stations accidentally ID the station by a call sign it hadn't used in about 15 years. Or, alternatively, they might be just trying to ease the listeners into the change by still saying R2 sometimes for a softer transition — or, too, also keep in mind that depending on what show you're listening to, the DJ might not actually be in the studio live, but could have prerecorded their DJ chatter weeks ago before the change was actually announced, which is especially likely given that "as of February 25" means you were observing Sunday programming. (Most Sunday programming, even Strombo, is prerecorded rather than live.)But it's clear even from R2/CBC Music's own website (and from my own experience of listening to it) that it wasn't just an advance announcement of something that was going to happen at an unspecified future date, but a change that was already at least in progress as of the date of the announcement post. Bearcat (talk) 15:46, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not unlikely, but it was the countdown, so that may have been recorded earlier in the week. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:35, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still called CBC2