CBC's "As It Happens" = Terrible Program
 

It's almost as awful as that NPR atrocity called "Fresh Air" (mind you,
I said ALMOST...Fresh Air easily one of the worst things going on
radio). Barbara Budd or Mary Lou Finlay, who host "As It Happens",
should be shifted to janitorial duty at the CBC. Both have horrible,
grating voices, with irritating personalities to match. The "humor" on
the program is patently un-funny, and the lame human interest stories
are an utter waste of time. CBC can do better than this.

Help I Can Not Breath - There Is So Much "Fresh Air" :o)

uncle arnie wrote:

wrote:

It's almost as awful as that NPR atrocity called "Fresh Air" (mind you,
I said ALMOST...Fresh Air easily one of the worst things going on
radio). Barbara Budd or Mary Lou Finlay, who host "As It Happens",
should be shifted to janitorial duty at the CBC. Both have horrible,
grating voices, with irritating personalities to match. The "humor" on
the program is patently un-funny, and the lame human interest stories
are an utter waste of time. CBC can do better than this.

The show has been on for probably 30 years and is among the most popular CBC
productions.

Well, it is CanaDuh after all.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

First thing they could do is change the theme song -- ripping off Edwin
Starr's "25 Miles" for a theme doesn't do anything to make the show more
listenable.


No way. The theme has to stay after these many years. This has been the
theme throughout the shows 30 or so years' history. I like the hosts, and
their approach to interviews. Some of the stories are certainly fluffy,
and some are very poignant.

I like the program, and I like "Fresh Air" too. But there's something
about that As It Happens theme that's just jarring -- Dah DAAAHHH, dut
dut DAAAHHHHH, dut dut DUUHHHH! Always seems out of place, to my ears.

On 06/05/2005 12:28 AM, wrote:
It's almost as awful as that NPR atrocity called "Fresh Air" (mind you,
I said ALMOST...Fresh Air easily one of the worst things going on
radio). Barbara Budd or Mary Lou Finlay, who host "As It Happens",
should be shifted to janitorial duty at the CBC. Both have horrible,
grating voices, with irritating personalities to match. The "humor" on
the program is patently un-funny, and the lame human interest stories
are an utter waste of time. CBC can do better than this.

No accounting for taste, is there?

I've never been a huge fan, but it does get a large number of listeners
every day.

I listen to a fair amount of NPR/PRI programming (Morning Edition, All
Things Considered, Diane Rehm, To the Point, The World, etc.). Fresh
Air, however, is one program that I can't quite tolerate (and that
theme music on Fresh Air...geez!). Thankfully, the NPR affiliate I
listen to has placed Fresh Air at the 3:00 AM time slot.
As for "As It Happens", I guess it does have an NPR feel to it. I'd
probably have to side with the earlier comment that "it has its
moments", although the program is no favorite of mine. As far as the
interviewer-interrupting-interviewee issue goes, I can think of no one
worse than Charlie Rose on PBS. He's a real mediocrity. Not only does
he interrupt the person he's interviewing, he actually tries to finish
their sentences for them. How this guy got his own show...God only
knows. But I suppose Charlie Rose is a bit off topic here. Well,
maybe not -- NPR, PBS, As It Happens... in many ways of the same
mould.

jamulc wrote:

(snip)


I can think of no one
worse than Charlie Rose on PBS. He's a real mediocrity. Not only does
he interrupt the person he's interviewing, he actually tries to finish
their sentences for them.


That sounds like Bryant Gumbel . . .

Tony

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CBC has done better than this, As It Happens has been on the air for 20
some years, and I did prefer Alan Maitland and Michael Enright, but
times change. Give them a chance for a few weeks, it's impossible for
every item to entertain every listener, every night. Still love it, tho.
Who I sorely miss are Peter Gzowski and Vicky Gabereaux, whose programs
I based my day around for many happy years.

They did change the theme song a few years ago. Popular outcry changed
it back to the version you now hear.