As CBC's new afternoon show Freestyle ended for another day, I found my heart singing with relief.

It is simply not a very good show. The music sucks and Kelly Ryan and Cameron Phillips have not gelled yet as hosts.

Do a Technorati search on Freestyle CBC to see what I mean. This discussion at Rabble.ca is one to which I could have contributed. As it is, I can only concur.

Apparently Ryan said the following in a Globe and Mail article:

We're playing lots of music. Music that doesn't normally make it on the CBC,' such as Madonna, Elton John and Top 40, Ryan added. 'This is the kind of show you can have on in the background at work, in the dentist office, moms at home ..."

Newsflash: I don't go to the dentist's office to listen to music. Why does CBC Radio One want to compete with crap rock stations for earshare in dentists' offices or other musical dead zones?

Methinks future afternoons at home will be see my receiver tuned to pretty much anything but Freestyle.

Update

The Globe and Mail reported on Jan. 18, 2007 that Freestyle would be killed.

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