CBC in the US

[thermophile 0]

ok I'm running some calibrations that I can't leave but don't require much effort, so my brain has wandered. The hubby (and me too) is a CBC fan. I'd like to surprise him with access to CBC once he moves. Radio isn't very hard, we can stream that. But what about TV? I'm getting cable before he gets down here but Comcast and DirectTV seem to be our only options and as far as I can tell neither carry any type of CBC. Mostly, I'm thinking about news-the Hour and Peter Mansbridge would be tough for him to loose.

thanks

[Emancipation 2]

the CBC website is like a safe harbor for me.. I'm on there ALL the time! Hubby loves it now too!

You can see current news feeds, see most of the older episodes of the shows, and even catch some of Little Mosque on the Praire!!

AND you can buy all the CBC shows/movies on there too!!

www.cbc.ca

I LOVE THIS SITE!! I listen to the radio from home via the web as well.. nothing like the "maritime" accent!! YEHAW!

But I'm cheap and won't pay for cable!

Edited August 22, 2007 by Emancipation

[Jeremy + Kristy 0]

Well, I'm not much help. I'd just have to hook up an aerial to my TV in order to get CBC. I do get Global with Comcast, though, so I could watch Heroes a day early and LOST an hour earlier.

[bowflex 0]

Just live near the border and you'll be set I've lived in Michigan my whole life and we've always had CBC, even saw my first hockey games on Hockey Night in Canada

[djc 0]

What state are you in? Michigan's Comcast gets CBC. Gotta love it.

ok I'm running some calibrations that I can't leave but don't require much effort, so my brain has wandered. The hubby (and me too) is a CBC fan. I'd like to surprise him with access to CBC once he moves. Radio isn't very hard, we can stream that. But what about TV? I'm getting cable before he gets down here but Comcast and DirectTV seem to be our only options and as far as I can tell neither carry any type of CBC. Mostly, I'm thinking about news-the Hour and Peter Mansbridge would be tough for him to loose.

thanks

[thermophile 0]

yeah I haven't had cable the 3 years that I've been here without him, but (nearly) all the hockey he wants to watch was one of the carrots I had to use to convince him that moving wouldn't be the worst experience of his life.

I love the way that we got NPR and PBS in Calgary. I guess I'm just too far south. however, we do get a bunch of channels over the air in Spanish. course neither of us speak Spanish, but watching football/soccer in Spanish is fun

[neiks 19]

Mostly, I'm thinking about news-the Hour and Peter Mansbridge would be tough for him to loose.

I luv George Stroumboulopoulos and Peter is cool too.

[misa 2]

Man, I so miss CBC Newsworld's The Passionate Eye (documentaries).

[borealgirl 0]

eThermophile, what a great thing to do. I am a cbc radio buff myself. My husband bought me satlitte radio and it was the nicest thing ever (although I don;t know how to tell him that it is free on the web).

I may look into this myself, as I know that my hub will love so many of the programs. And I am falling out of touch with my canadian and quabecois roots after five years here. Thanks for the idea. Will follow up with anything if I come across it.

BG

ok I'm running some calibrations that I can't leave but don't require much effort, so my brain has wandered. The hubby (and me too) is a CBC fan. I'd like to surprise him with access to CBC once he moves. Radio isn't very hard, we can stream that. But what about TV? I'm getting cable before he gets down here but Comcast and DirectTV seem to be our only options and as far as I can tell neither carry any type of CBC. Mostly, I'm thinking about news-the Hour and Peter Mansbridge would be tough for him to loose.

thanks

[thetreble 19]

Man, I so miss CBC Newsworld's The Passionate Eye (documentaries).

I used to watch this every sunday AFTER coronation st! I have been watching Corrie since I was able to watch tv! My mums been watching it now from CBC for over 30 years. I miss it so much. I'd love to figure out how to get CBC one day....our comcast digital cable doesn't offer much in the way of canadian tv.

[Cassie 8]

Mostly, I'm thinking about news-the Hour and Peter Mansbridge would be tough for him to loose.

I luv George Stroumboulopoulos and Peter is cool too.

The beauty of The Hour is that they have a kick butt archive with tons of video. He won't get to see it live, but in individual chunks -- for me, better than nothing!

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/

The CBC website gives me my fix, but my one complaint that there's only a few video stories from the Man.

Oh, and George Strombo is yummy

[DeadPoolX 9]

This post won't be of much help, but every time I hear the term "CBC," I think of the medical version (complete blood count) instead of the media version (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).

[thermophile 0]

This post won't be of much help, but every time I hear the term "CBC," I think of the medical version (complete blood count) instead of the media version (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).

yeah it took me living in Canada for a year or so before I thought "tv/radio" rather than blood, I worked my way through undergrad as a phlebotomist.

I haven't had any more time to look into this. I know a friend of a friend that has a sat. box in Calgary and another in his house in Mexico inorder to get the Canadian channels, but that sounds like a fairly large pain in my ####### to try to set up. We may just make do with the CBC website.

[Flames9_RN 358]

The names escapes me at this time, but one can buy this box, and attach it to a Canadian TV, and via theirs and your internet connection, you can watch Canadian programming. If you connect it to the Cdn cable box, you have to watch what they are watching, BUT if you were to buy a second cable box, you could watch whatever. A basic "thingy" is around $150, and goes up to $300. I was goin gto buy one and connect it to my parents TV, so I could watch more hockey and curling! But busy with school, so didnt bother. One can buy them at Best buy, London drugs, Future shop and even on Ebay!! Wish I could recall the name of the product. One can watch it anywhere in the world, as long as one has internet connection, and there is NO monthly service fee!

SLINGBOX!!!! Thats what it is called ( too lazy to do over,lol) http://www.slingmedia.com/indexa.php

[Cassie 8]

The names escapes me at this time, but one can buy this box, and attach it to a Canadian TV, and via theirs and your internet connection, you can watch Canadian programming. If you connect it to the Cdn cable box, you have to watch what they are watching, BUT if you were to buy a second cable box, you could watch whatever. A basic "thingy" is around $150, and goes up to $300. I was goin gto buy one and connect it to my parents TV, so I could watch more hockey and curling! But busy with school, so didnt bother. One can buy them at Best buy, London drugs, Future shop and even on Ebay!! Wish I could recall the name of the product. One can watch it anywhere in the world, as long as one has internet connection, and there is NO monthly service fee!

SLINGBOX!!!! Thats what it is called ( too lazy to do over,lol) http://www.slingmedia.com/indexa.php

yeah, that might actually work!! It's being marketed big time to sports fans, but I can't see why it wouldn't work for other kinds of programming!