zamiel writes “”Hard-core fans of The Beachcombers, Don Messer’s Jubilee or Wojeck might want to sit down. A cultural crisis was narrowly averted last week when a burst water pipe flooded CanCon’s holy of holies — the CBC archives.”
This is reported as more of a joke than a crisis in McLean’s magazine. Knocking the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) is somewhat of a national pastime in Canada.
As I work in one of the CBC archives affected I can tell you that the burst pipe was more of an annoyance than anything else although fortunately no one was hurt when water contacted cables and electronic equipment.
zamiel writes “”Hard-core fans of The Beachcombers, Don Messer’s Jubilee or Wojeck might want to sit down. A cultural crisis was narrowly averted last week when a burst water pipe flooded CanCon’s holy of holies — the CBC archives.”
This is reported as more of a joke than a crisis in McLean’s magazine. Knocking the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) is somewhat of a national pastime in Canada.
As I work in one of the CBC archives affected I can tell you that the burst pipe was more of an annoyance than anything else although fortunately no one was hurt when water contacted cables and electronic equipment.The amount of water was small. The flood, such as it was, happened on Jan. 4 and was caused by a burst pipe in an electrical room(!) on the main floor of the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto that caused water to leak down into two of the archival storage areas and a audio workstation below. Due to some very cold weather (-20 C) the pipe froze in an apparently unheated electrical room. When things warmed up a bit later, water leaked downstairs into the first basement.
In the film archive, which the article addresses, the archived film had recently been re-shelved in new plastic, vented canisters which in the case of this “flood” protected the film from the small amount of water. In the audio archives damage was limited to the carpet in the audio workstation room and some water to be mopped up in one of the audio archival spaces. Classic CBC television episodes were never in danger, but thanks for your insincere concern McLean’s.
For non-Canadians:
CanCon = Canadian content, as in the arts or entertainment.
“The Beachcombers”, “Don Messer’s Jubilee” and “Wojeck” = old, popular CBC televisions shows now off the air.”
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