CBC Radio could start new era in Kamloops

I for one, am thrilled with the announcement that CBC Radio will launch a Kamloops-based morning show next year. It is about time.

For too long we’ve had to be satisfied, or dissatisfied, with being served from Kelowna. While they do a fine job down there, there’s very little in the way of original material relating to Kamloops — almost all of it is regurgitated and reworked from our local media and passed off as supposedly fresh content a couple of days later.

The fact the new Kamloops show will have as many as four reporters working for it will change that. And let us not be bitter that Kelowna, in addition to retaining its current morning program, will also get an afternoon program later this year. Let’s, instead, be happy with what we’re getting.

I have one request: could we begin with reporters and hosts who have not gone to the CBC School of Interviewing? Could they not start every question with the word “So…”? Could they not drive us nuts with that uniquely CBC singsong style of speech? Could they not act as though CBC is The Thing?

Maybe Kamloops could be the start of something good.