The Garret Tree
Saturday, August 27, 2005
  CBC XXIX: All's fair in love, war and lockouts

More from the "do you want your old job back" department I mentioned yesterday.

TVO's Studio Two is trying for a hot, hot launch of its new season on Monday August 29. The current affairs show had already announced they'd brought the staff back early because of the CBC lockout. It now seems they're doing more than just stealing a march on the Corp, they are hoping for that hot season launch to grab current affairs deprived viewers. So Studio Two began calling former TVO employees now locked out at CBC and offered short term deals to boost the staff for that launch. At least one producer accepted that offer. There may be more if the lockout drags on.

The most interesting story I heard last night, and at this point let's call it good gossip from a reliable source, is that some of the senior producers in the French arm of the CBC, SRC, are extending the hand of friendship to locked out CBC Francophone or bilingual employees, if they want to return to Quebec and fill empty spots temporarily. Most of these offers are personal from former bosses. But the word is that at least one talented technical person is being wooed with a staff job, to come back, with the family, to la belle province.

That gets me a little worried. Are the top ranks at SRC just helping out folks, or do they have an idea that this mess is going to go long and they're poaching?

(I went out last night to get away from all this, including the blog, cause I had to get out of the house and not to go the TBC, and because friends are saying they like the blog but I am doing a lot of posts.

But you can't get away from this. You go to a bar, you meet friends and they ask you how you are doing. Then, reliable source you've known for some years comes up to you on the street and gives you a tip.)



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I write in a renovated garret in my house in a part of Toronto, Canada, called "The Pocket." The blog is named for a tree can be seen outside the window of my garret.

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I'm a Toronto-based writer, photographer, web producer, television producer, journalist and teacher. I'm author of five books, the latest A River Kwai Story: The Sonkrai Tribunal. The Garret tree is my blog on the writing life including my progress on my next book (which will be announced here some time in the coming months) My second blog, the Wampo, Nieke and Sonkrai follows the slow progress of my freelanced model railway based on my research on the Burma Thailand Railway (which is why it isn't updated that often) The Creative Guide to Research, based on my book published in 2000 is basically an archive of news, information and hints for both the online and the shoe-leather" researcher. (Google has taken over everything but there are still good hints there)



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