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Dear CBC, Re: Canadia 2056

To: CBC Radio (via)
From: [excised]
X-from-city: Toronto
X-from-province: Ontario

Dear CBC,

I am addressing the broadcasters and/or administrators, and not the show creators, right? Because if this *is* being read by a show creator, I'm talking to the wrong people. Could you forward it on to the guy with the corner office and the speakerphone? Much obliged. Coffee's on me next time.

Dear CBC,

Canadia 2056 troubles me. I've heard and read excellent things about it. A couple of my friends who got on the bandwagon early enough to catch the first season in its entirety tell me that it's excellent. The premise is right up my alley, and I grew up on Grant Naylor and Douglas Adams, after all.

Dear CBC, why do you make it so hard for new listeners to find this show?

There aren't any podcasts.

There aren't any sample episodes (not even the first one!).

There is a rather pricy CD set available, but it seems that the only place selling it is the online CBC Shop. The high price isn't a showstopper, but the fact that the Shop only accepts credit cards or gift cards which have been purchased with credit cards certainly is.

Dearest Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, I understand that there are guild and union complexities here that make distribution challenging. I really do understand it, and I don't mean to downplay how difficult it is to work these things out.

Loveliest and most rose-scented CBC, please also understand, though, that you've got a great show here, and a potentially rabid fan base. The standard deal in these situations is this: you make it possible for your fans to listen to the show, and we in return make it vastly popular, perhaps eventually raising it to the level of a cultural classic. Gobs of money get made, awards get handed out, everyone goes home happy. Isochronous broadcasting models simply don't reach the target audience, here. The good news is that there is a myriad, a plenitude, a veritable cornucopia of alternative distribution channels; and I absolutely guarantee that if there are any motivated fans out there, the show is one five-line crontabbed shell script from being redistributed without you - a win for audiences in only the shortest of terms.

O most inscrutable and confusing CBC - let's do this thing, shall we?

Thanks ever so much.

Slightly creepily yours,

Ben

To: CBC Radio (via)
From: [excised]
X-from-city: Toronto
X-from-province: Ontario

Dear Canadia site maintaners,

There may be a typo or wto on the front pge:

"New on the video page this week. Producer and director Greg De Clute speaks on the creation of an epsiode of the show."

"The first season of Canadia 2056 is now avaiable on CD from the CBC Shop."

I am as excited as everyone about the epsiodes now avaiable at the CBC Shop, but whiskey tango foxtrot - how did those zingers evaid the speelchecker?

Cordially your,

Bne