'Totally Toronto' CBC should serve Hamilton area by Colin IsaacsSep 14, 2007 Source : Hamilton SpectatorRe: 'CBC's fuzzy signal' (Editorial, Sept. 12) Your editorial goes part way in illuminating the stupidity of CBC senior management. However, you miss the coup de grace. For the last 10 days CBC Radio 1 from Toronto has been constantly playing the tag line "Totally Toronto." If CBC Radio 1 out of Toronto is "Totally Toronto" it clearly has nothing to do with the Greater Hamilton area. My proposal is that the CBC eggheads who think taxpayer-funded CBC Radio 1 is "Totally Toronto" should be put out to pasture on Nathan Phillips Square. Conservative MPs from the GTA should use their leverage with the federal cabinet to make sure Radio 1 serves the entire Golden Horseshoe. Unless it does so, Hamilton taxpayers should demand that the whole thing be shut down. Colin Isaacs, Fisherville
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