Friends of Canadian Broadcasting launches campaign
Source : CBC News
Aug 24, 2000
MATT RAINNIE (CBCT-FM): The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting launched an advertising campaign in Charlottetown today aimed at saving the CBC's supper hour news shows. The campaign is designed to pressure island MPs to push for more support for regional programming when they attend a Liberal Caucus meeting coming up in Winnipeg.
Ian Morrison is with the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. He says the organization is focusing its efforts on P.E.I. because the popularity of Compass will likely make its survival an election issue.
IAN MORRISON (Spokesperson, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting): I think that the chances for keeping Compass whole is stronger now than it would have been at any other time, because of the forthcoming election, the vulnerability of the four Liberal MPs, and their need to demonstrate that they're representing the interests of the island to voters who will otherwise confront them on the doorsteps during the election campaign.
RAINNIE: The campaign will include billboards, newspaper ads, and telephone solicitation. The CBC's regional supper hour news programs are scheduled to be cut in half in October.
