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Mike Stafford Interrupts His Show For Some Radio Advice
I honestly can’t tell you what Mike Stafford was talking about specifically on AM640 Thursday morning. It might have been hydro rates or the story about the teacher being fired for not apologizing properly about his innocent reference to abortion in some overly progressive private school.
And then in the middle of a sentence, he suddenly and very loudly yelled out, “There are no jobs! There are no jobs! Everything is syndicated from out west! You’re wasting your time!”
He then explained that he’d looked up and saw a class of some radio and broadcasting students being shown through the building at Corus Quay and staring into the booth as he was doing his show.
A very funny moment.
And sadly, a little bit too true.
- Mike Cleaver
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More than a little bit.
BCIT cranks out 40 grads per year in each of Radio, TV and Journalism courses.
That's just one College.
Alberta has NAIT and SAIT doing the same thing and Ontario has several Colleges doing the same thing, not to mention all of the other provinces.
They are training people for mostly non existent jobs.
The industry shrinks every day with more people being shed as the corpse consolidate with one person voice-tracking more than a few stations.
Other positions vanish as more work is being required from fewer people.
The major TV 6pm Newscasts on CTV, Global and CBC in Vancouver each draw less than a 5 share of sets in use at that hour.
All have cut staff.
Vancouver's one rating leading radio station now simulcasts a TV newscast at 6pm.
This industry is going the way of typewriters and buggy whips.
All the Colleges are interested in is putting "bums in seats" to get their per-student grants and high tuition fees.
You are no longer permitted to fail anyone.
Young people today are better off training for the trades.
- splunge
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Mike Cleaver wrote:
All the Colleges are interested in is putting "bums in seats" to get their per-student grants and high tuition fees.
You are no longer permitted to fail anyone.
Oh no. don't you DARE talk about my snowflake that way. I'll shame you on facebook!