Comment 59279

By davidsfawcett (registered) - website | Posted February 04, 2011 at 19:27:11

Here's my letter to the Spec © Hamilton Spectator from Sept. 2007. Hope they don't take us all to court!

CBC Radio 1's morning show in Toronto is rated No. 1 among many competitors because it caters to the issues and interests of listeners. Their on-air motto is "Totally Toronto."

Hamilton represents a bare 15 per cent of the population of the GTA. Our concerns are not those of CBC Toronto's listeners. It is unreasonable to expect a Toronto station to present Hamilton issues to their public regardless of the easy availability of the radio signal here.

Hamilton's on-air personalities could offer the sort of intelligent engaging segments which typify the CBC's local morning and drive-home shows (not just in Toronto, but in all the markets they serve), but these do not represent the format of commercial stations which offer inane conversation, irrelevant music and endless commercial messages.

I live in Hamilton and listen to CBC Toronto because the quality and format of their programs are far superior to commercial radio. Hamilton is the largest Canadian city without a CBC Radio 1 presence. We should have access to the first-class programming that can be provided by Canada's national broadcaster.

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