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More of same . . . CBC's web site loses traffic  < 2:57:34 PM>.Alexa.com is reporting a pretty noticable drop in the traffic between cbc.ca and its closest rival, canada.com (owned by CanWest Global). In this chart, you can see how cbc.ca was on top, and now has some serious re-couping to do. Let's hope people didn't change their bookmarks. Online habits are hard to break. [Via I Love Radio .org] The End of the (Original) Long Dash < 1:48:31 PM>.Pretty much every Canadian knows the phrase "The beginning of the long dash..." Everything from award-winning poetry books to protest t-shirts have used the phrase. It's part of the national time signal aired by CBC Radio once a day. (The actual statement continues: "...following ten seconds of silence indicates 1 p.m. Eastern standard time." True, it's a bit goofy in today's time of atom-clock synchronized computers -- still, it holds a special place in the heart of Canadians. And now, the wooden pole which originally provided the signal will be removed from Ottawa's west end over safety concerns. Standing taller than the trees, the pole is located on what used to be the property of J.P. Henderson. He was an astronomer at the Dominion Observatory. Although an astronomer, Henderson did a lot of experimenting with radio and was one of Ontario's first ham radio operators. At his home on Perth Street, Henderson put up a pole for his antenna from which he broadcast, among other things, a time signal. That was more than a decade before CBC was created. The time signal has been heard every day on CBC since it started in the 1930s. Watch: Archives: The Beginning of the Long Dash [Via I Love Radio .org] |
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