Win a few, lose a few

[bunsen_h]

The CBC Radio Saturday morning show Go! will be ending, with its final broadcast in just over a week.

For the most part, it's been pretty annoying — occasionally listenable, but mostly drivelous and regularly obnoxious enough to make me hurry around the house to shut off any radios, i.e., not even tolerable as background noise.  I can't say I'll miss it.

The show's host will, apparently, be back with a new Saturday morning show in the fall.  Feh.  I miss the shows hosted by Arthur Black, and before him, Allan McFee: they were aimed at a somewhat higher intellectual level.  I'm not looking for anything particularly deep on a Saturday morning, but I like to hear reasonably intelligent interviews even if the subject is on the odd side ("Eclectic Circus", yeah...) and an absence of wacky sound clips that turn the show into the audio equivalent of a music video.

 

Comments

[buttongirl.livejournal.com]

Yay for GO ending!

Boo for them keeping that horrible man on the radio! Why don't they give him to some private radio place where he obviously wants to be? He is horrible!

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

I never minded GO!...not that I got to listen to it that much. I do still miss Basic Black though, and I thought Eclectic Circus migrated to R2 at some point.

I just hope it doesn't get replaced with something even more dumbed down, or worse, the completely unfunny Sean Cullen.

I don't know what's happened at my beloved Ceeb, but their programming is getting worse and worse, and it's not all about budget cuts. They've shown time and again that you don't need big bucks to produce great radio, but they seem to have lost their mojo.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it's the pressure of the ongoing bullying that's messing up their institutional brainpower.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Not having had much chance to get acquainted with anything prior to Go!, I will miss the show once it's gone.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big fan of Go!, but its show last week about cycling was quite good.

I generally listen to The Age of Persuasion at 10 a.m. and then turn off the radio at 10:30.

I don't think it's the host, though. Brent Bambury was excellent when he hosted All In A Day on CBC Ottawa. I think it's the format -- mostly quizzes and silly stuff -- and the fact that it's pitched just a bit too loud (almost as though it the sound levels were compressed to the louder end). I don't like loud on a Saturday morning.

As for his predecessors: Arthur Black was great because he was witty, and had a wide range range of interests, and didn't just appeal to one demographic. Allan McPhee I found quite boring.

CBC is desperate to get a younger demographic (look at how they gutted Radio 2 a couple years ago) so I suspect whatever replaces Go will still be heavy on music and stand-up humour etc and you probably still won't like it.