CBC The National intro (Wednesday August 17, 1983)

[@thecorpooration]

This stretches back to some of my earliest memories. Back when the CBC was objective and professional.

[@sadee1287]

How are they no longer objective and professional? Provide explicit details and proof.

[@SPTO]

God bless Knowlton Nash. The man was truly the dean of Canadian news broadcasting.

[@OTownNews]

SPTO next to Mansbridge?

[@SPTO]

@@OTownNews Well their eras overlapped very slightly but to my mind both are the tops in Canadian television news with Lloyd Robertson a distant (but respectable) third.

[@My2EyesAreOpen]

*_I loved the National from back then! And I remember them pushing Jesse Jackson for president. Made me nervous, for I could tell right away he didn't like us whites!_*

[@SPTO]

@@My2EyesAreOpen I was also a fan of the sister program that aired afterwards (The Journal) which was headed up in the early '80s by Barbara Frum.

[@My2EyesAreOpen]

Yeah The Journal was good too. Haven't been able to find the opening for it on YT, but maybe Retrontario could track it down. :) *_What was weird about Canadians, is that in the 80s all of Canada tuned in to The National even though they wanted to be Americans. Now, Canadians DON'T want to be Americans, but what do they tune in too? Fox News & CNN_* @@SPTO

[@k.s.333]

Back when the CBC was reliable and respectable news coverage.

[@sadee1287]

People keep saying this, but never provide proof. Can you explicitly and in detail give examples of how CBC is no longer respectable?

[@wjleahy5213]

Still reliable and respectable

[@majortuff]

lol@@wjleahy5213

[@Mark-py3rv]

3 and a half weeks after this broadcast I flew out to the west coast from London Ontario to begin basic officer training at Chilliwack BC

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

I Like the Way Knowlton Says "Good Evening".

[@therandomytchannel4318]

Good evening!! 😊

[@NishantGogna]

Back when television was innocent

[@grecomic]

Folksinger Stan Rogers was killed in that fire.

[@waivedwench]

That's what I thought.

[@TTOMO]

Four days after I was born.

[@RhiannaBarr]

The plane tragedy that took the life of Stan Rogers

[@PingPong85]

What? CBC had fun shows at one point instead force fed CanCon? Tickle me blue!

[@grecomic]

Non-Canadian syndicated reruns in the afternoon until the 6 o'clock news was pretty standard through to the late 90's. Prime time was still mandatory CanCon.

[@sadee1287]

We were lucky to have had CanCon. Otherwise, Canadian content would have been lost. Why is it that Canadians can't appreciate Canadian grown and produced content? No other country spurns its own like Canada.

[@brandonbinder5572]

Archie!!!!

[@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624]

I did not know that The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had their own World news series in Canada called "The National". No wonder, I was born in the late 1990s (the year 1998) located in the United States. 😮

[@emigames6248]

It still exists.

[@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624]

@@emigames6248 You mean CBC's The National exists? Yes, I know. I wonder what happened if any channel in the US would aired CBC's the National in the USA. 😃

[@emigames6248]

@@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624 You can watch it every night live at 9pm eastern time. It's on KZbin.

[@emigames6248]

@@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624 And I think C-SPAN actually aired The National once. Might be wrong though. It was possibly on 9/11.

[@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624]

@@emigames6248 smart. I watched one episode of CBC’s The National on KZbin about Oprah Winfrey interviewing with Prince Harry and her dame wife, Miss Meghan Sparkle. 👍😀

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

1:17

[@nopcshere6097]

I miss Knowlton Nash. A true journalist. And the CBC of his time was an objective and dependable source. Now it's just a propaganda source.

[@sadee1287]

How so? Provide concrete examples please.

[@joealomar-cu3qb]

life experience when you get some come back we'll talk@@sadee1287