The Alberta Leaders Debate is on tonight, and this is a running tally as to who is officially broadcasting it:

- CFRN
- CFCN
- Global Edmonton
- Global Calgary
- CBC Edmonton
- CBC Calgary
- CKSA
- CHAT
- globaltvedmonton.com
- ctvedmonton.ca
- calgary.ctv.ca
- cbc.ca
- 630 CHED
- QR77
- CBC Radio One
- CPAC

Guess it will be the DVD player tonight ...

Random observations:
-did anyone answer the questions? ie. Stelmach is asked where he's getting the numbers of jobs lost if they impose hard caps.  He goes on about how his plan works.
-Stelmach gets stomped on every chance the other guys got.  Ralphy would have never stood for that.  He'd throw things.
-Taft's smirk makes me worry.
-Hinman looks like the Joker in the Batman series.
-Mason's still leader of the NDP?  seriously?

That is all.

After watching the first half hour of the Obama-Clinton debate on CNN, I switched to the Alberta debate. I watched the first 20 minutes, fell asleep, then woke up and watched the last 40 minutes. Obviously, I found it very boring. I thought the format was bad in that the leaders had a two-minute free for all after all answered each question, and you couldn't hear what they were saying half the time. Very poor planning.

Yawn... there was a debate???

They looked like a bunch of goons to me.
Blah, blah, blah.

I'd LOVE to see a real high school style debate instead of that high school style news conference they called a debate.
Debacle is more accurate.

courtesy of Graham Hicks
Hicks on Six
Sunday February 24th, 2008

MEDIA CO-OPERATION

T'was a first - CTV Edmonton, Global Edmonton and CBC-TV working together to simulcast the leaders debate on Thursday.

The three major political parties were pushing to have the debate on all three major TV channels, but the stations themselves were reluctant, given their intense day-to-day local news competition.

But station managers Tim Spelliscy of Global and Lloyd Lewis of CTV are reasonable men who like each other personally. They negotiated, came up with a deal and invited the CBC to come on board.

The venue was Global's studio. The moderators were CTV's Daryl McIntyre and Global's Lynda Steele, who looked as if they'd worked together for years. The journalist panel had folks from the Journal, Global Calgary, CTV Calgary and CBC Edmonton. Next time, let's have the Sun, CityTV and CHED on board.

Even the cameramen were a cross-section from the stations.

It seemed to work just fine. No doubt a template has been set for future elections.

He musta watched a different debate...or was put to sleep by this one

The idea was good...air on as many stations as possible..just the format needs worked on.