Public safety first in budget
Le Devoir features how public safety is a major concern in the new city budget, but CBC has a video report on how the police bodycams are not going to be applied for a long time yet.
(Kvetch: Why does CBC show you a couple of seconds of their news video, then interrupt it with a commercial? It’s jolting. Show me the commercial first then cut cleanly to your report.)
Nicholas 14:27 on 2026-01-13 Permalink
I think it’s IT issues. I believe what happens is that the CBC video loads, and then the ad loads on top of it, but loads so much slower that CBC starts already and then is interrupted.
Kate 17:32 on 2026-01-13 Permalink
Presumably CBC could put a brief delay on the start of their own video?
Jim 18:35 on 2026-01-13 Permalink
CBC could improve a lot on their streaming. Just the apps on smart TVs, like tou.tv are not very smooth. They ask and re-ask for login information at random moments, the login process is painstaking. Commercials are repetitive, in the sense that they are repeated 2 or 3 times directly in sequence. I don’t think it has their focus. Personally, I’d prefer to read my news, as being directed to a video. Audio is not always an option depending the environment.
But I guess it’s not easy to please all audiences, and get the advertisement stream at the same time.
Kate 19:51 on 2026-01-13 Permalink
I also far prefer to read my news, which is why this blog is in text and points mostly to text. But for the last few months, English CBC has been defaulting to video reports without text, and if they’re on a topic I think is relevant, especially if no one else has it, I’ve been grudgingly linking them.
Joey 17:21 on 2026-01-14 Permalink
From time to time I am reminded that CBC Lite is still a very useful thing that exists. CBC Lite is 329 KB. CBC News standard is only a little bigger (1.12 MB) but still somewhat cluttered. The Globe and Mail website, by comparison, is 8.1MB…
Ian 19:37 on 2026-01-14 Permalink
I’d forgotten all about it. Thanks, Joey!