“Nooooo!” I hear a large portion of the web tech community saying. But thankfully, CBC’s Search Engine has been picked up by rival broadcaster TVOntario and will continue on as normal, except hosted and broadcast from a different place on the interwebs. In an announcement on the podcast itself, the host Jesse Brown stated that due to recession cutbacks, CBC wasn’t able to continue on with show, along with a number of others on the same network. He seemed to be leaving with good spirits, and with the TVO staff loving the show, it only took a day and a half for the deal to go through.
I’m very happy to be hearing this, around this time last year the podcast was in trouble as well when CBC cut back and Jesse was left to host and run the show by himself instead of with a team. It came out of that better than ever, and I think it’ll do great on another broadcaster. Sadly it will be on less frequently than before, but I can only imagine that the extra time in-between episodes = more awesomeness.
(Via Boing Boing)
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