Another day ...

... another management appointment at CBC-TV. This from Fred Fuchs, himself the recently-appointed executive director of Arts and Entertainment Television.

I am pleased to announce the promotion of Stew Moore to the position of Director, Production Business And Administration for TV Arts and Entertainment.

Stew will be responsible for overseeing all production operations, financial and administrative aspects of the department - a crucial role in the management and operation of our department. This includes long-range planning and strategy of production processes in relation to A&E projects, tracking and forecasting of production and departmental finances, resource utilization and administration of departmental personnel.

In carrying out these responsibilities, Stew will ensure that A&E's projects are produced with maximum efficiency and that A&E's financial resources are managed effectively. The knowledge and expertise that Stew brings to this new role will help us meet our challenges as Canada's national public television broadcaster.

The appointment is effective immediately ...

Incidentally, I am hearing that last year's really stupid move to privatize the program publicity function is working so spectacularly well that there's no budget for promotion. Word is that funding may be diverted from programming into publicity so that the shows which actually get made also get some attention. Whatta concept.

Comments

[johnnykap]

They hired the wrong Stewie. They should have hired Stewie Griffin. Right, ArtDeco? Or should I say, left?

[NPS]

Another Day........

Twenty eight degrees here today, put the wireless remote speakers out on the deck and tuned into Galaxie – CBC’s continuous Music Network. Forty five channels with no ads, no DJ yapping and no blogging and programmed by music experts. Cracked a cold Stella and the better half has a glass of Chablis that noble stuff from Burgundy(take that Robert Mondavi of Napa Valley even if you have the same grape). A couple of T-bones will be on the spit very shortly with a nice green salad, just switched to the 70’s channel and got Old Janis “Summertime……..and the living’s easy”. Brings back old memories/times from those years so gonna crack another Stella and top up the dear lady’s glass and here’s hoping the cranky bloggers who hate the CBC nip over to CTV/FOX et al and leave me and the CBC Galaxie alone as we have been friends for a long time. Now for some Jazz Café……..

[Montreal Simon]

If they take money from programming and put it into publicity does that mean the promos will be better than the programs themselves?And if so wouldn't that be false advertising or just plain fraud? But then I'm surprised that there is any money leftover for programming after all those managers they just keep on appointing. If the CBC was once top heavy, by now it must be leaning like the tower of Pisa. And those big fancy titles they're amazing too. I guess they must make it really easy for you to pick CBC bosses out of the crowd at a media convention. They're the ones with the extra-large business cards.

[Ivan Prokopchuk]

NPS.
Drinking Stella.
Fred Fuchs.
Man, are you Canadian!

p.s.: Ontario chablis is the best in the world.

[sooey]

so... um... is that pronounced "fred" with a short "e"...?

[dave]

I don't know who exactly should be looking over their shoulder at CBC but I suspect it will be the people who actually put the shows on the air.

The following is from a government bid site called Merx. Interesting reading about how al levels of government plan to spend our money.

RFP HR 27062006 - Career transition services

Reference: Career transition services for CBC/Radio-Canada
Request for Proposals
RFP # HR 27062006

CBC/Radio-Canada is inviting Proposals from industry in reply to its Career transition services Request for Proposals (“RFP”).

In order to receive a copy of the RFP documents, you are required to, no later than July 17th, 2006, 2h00pm EDT, contact the CBC/Radio-Canada representative whose coordinates appear below to obtain a Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement (“NDA”).

Following receipt of the signed NDA, you will be provided with an electronic copy of the complete RFP.

Any contact with CBC/Radio-Canada at this stage of the RFP process must be undertaken by email only, through the CBC/Radio-Canada representative whose coordinates appear below. All email titles pertaining to this RFP must include the RFP number (RFP # HR 27062006).

Responses to the RFP are due no later than 2h00pm Eastern Daylight Time, Friday, August 18th, 2006.

To request this RFP, please submit an email to the CBC/Radio-Canada representative and include the complete coordinates of the person in your organization who shall be the sole contact for the purpose of this RFP:
1. Legal name of Supplier,
2. Name of contact,
3. Title,
4. Address (Street, City, Province, Postal Code)
5. Telephone number,
6. Facsimile number,
7. Mobile phone number,
8. Email address.

Martin Desbiens, M.B.A.
Supply Management
CBC/Radio-Canada
Maison Radio-Canada

Martin_desbiens@radio-canada.ca

[Brian Gorman]

No one wants CBC to "take the money from programming and put it into publicity," as NPS put it. The problem at CBC is that they have a huge communication department that has no desire, or knowledge of how, to communicate -- and it has a manager/staff ratio of about 1/1.8. They're all former public servants who do what public servants do best -- hold meetings and hire consultants. The publicists who were fired were the people responsible for showmanship: They made sure the media knew about programs, had screening tapes or DVDs and arranged interviews with talent. In short, the people who knew how to do something that benefitted the broadcaster, the press and the audience were fired, and the ones who do nothing but absorb funds were kept. Every network has a corps of publicists who promote their product -- from the two dozen or so at CTV down to the staff of two at Vision TV. Only CBC -- our biggest broadcaster, has no publicity department. And what's really disgusting is that the boobs in the CBC communication department recently held a week-long conference at a swank Ontario resort to discuss the problem -- that the "new system" is not working, that their agency, Media Profile, which is used to clients who want their names kept OUT of the news, is completely lost when it comes to promotion, and that the budget is inadequate to promote even a slate of favored shows, let alone a network. That was a total waste of money, when you consider that the answer to the problem is to fire all the people who were studying it.

[NPS]

NPS.
Drinking Stella.
Fred Fuchs.
Man, are you Canadian!

p.s.: Ontario chablis is the best in the world.

Hi Ivan:

Very much a Canadian I am but I tire easily of Alexander Keiths's and Moosehead, whatcha got in Ontario that is fit besides Sleeman's.

P.S Ontario "Chablis", I don't think so but I do admit whites from the Niagara Estates( Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc grapes) are quite interesting. Also, the music on Galaxie is the best.......

Cheers
NPS
Riverview, NB

[Ivan Prokopchuk]

Didn't the Alexander Keith guy do an Alexander Putin on some kid?
Oh, I forgot. They fired him.
Yeah, all Ontario beer comes out of the same tap. Kids peeing into the vat.

[Bill-Muskoka]

NPS,

LOL! Try some Muskoka Lakes brews. Several flavours.

http://www.muskokabrewery.com/Thebrewery.htm

There is also Creemore Springs, a very fine lager.

http://www.creemoresprings.com/live/

Lakeport has great beers and at a low price.

http://www.lakeportbrewing.ca/

Molson's former Barrie plant produces some of the best wacky weed east of BC, er, well it did until the OPP raided the facility! LOL

[Bill-Muskoka]

Ivan,

GAWD! He was the most obnoxious and annoying person on TV! I boycotted AK because of him!

No surprise he is like his character in real life!

He and the former Canadian Tire psycho neighbor couple should move into the same neighborhood. Maybe Karla will buy there too, eh?

[Ivan Prokopchuk]

There might be a homonculus in Ontario beer.