On August 15, 2005, 5,500 employees of the CBC (about 90%) were locked out by CBC CEO Robert Rabinovitch in a dispute over future hiring practices. At issue were the rules governing the hiring of contract workers in preference to full-time hires. The locked-out employees were members of the Canadian Media Guild, representing all production, journalistic and on-air personnel outside Quebec and Moncton, including several foreign correspondents. While CBC services continued during the lock-out, they were primarily made up of repeats, with news programming from the BBC and newswires. Major CBC programs such as "The National" and "Royal Canadian Air Farce" were not produced during the lock-out; some non-CBC-owned programs seen on the network, such as "The Red Green Show", shifted to other studios. Meanwhile, the locked-out employees produced podcasts and websites such as CBCunplugged.com.