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Every bit of a sports broadcast is sponsored. Penalty kills, powerplays, calls to the bullpen, the broadcast booth…I’m used to that. But hearing on a Bluebombers game the other day that “Doug Brown’s colour commentary is brought to you buy…,” that was a new one. Caught me off guard so much that I immediately forgot …
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For a lot of reasons, I’ve been way more behind on even more things than usual for quite a while now. One of those things, I have just come to discover, is that Larry Mellott retired from calling Guelph Storm games at the end of last season. Congrats on a great run, Larry! It won’t …
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I have no idea how you replace someone like Joe Bowen, but Rogers has about a year to figure it out. Yes, we’ve hit another day I thought would never come. Sinatra said it bestAnd now the end is nearAnd so I face the final curtainMy friend I'll say it clearI'll state my case of …
Radio Host, Song Parodist Bob Rivers Has Died. Man, I was so bummed when I heard this news over the weekend. Growing up, I had two favourite song parody guys. The first, obviously, was Weird Al (one of the first records ever given to me as a child was the “Eat It” 45), and the …
I’m a little surprised we got this given how abruptly things ended, but this is audio of the final newscasts and promos from the day CHML died, capped off by the pulling of the plug. I don’t know what happened at 10 o’clock. Was it technical problems or did we throw to the news while …
Corus has laid off tons of people across the country and axed some pretty major things lately (Entertainment Tonight Canada and Big Brother Canada, for instance), but pulling the plug on CHML was one I wasn’t expecting when it happened out of the blue two weeks ago. The reasons for its demise should be all …
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Time for your annualish Steve loses his shit at MLB Audio for dinking with the broadcasts and fucking everything up post. I swear I could almost start an entire website devoted to only this if I knew that doing so wouldn’t cause me to bust a blood vessel and die. The reason I’m flipping my …
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If this is the future of radio, then maybe it’s time to shut the whole thing down. So much radio is unlistenable to me as it is precisely because it sounds so half assed, unprofessional and automated. There’s no humanity to it. If there are people at all, they’re presented in the form of lifeless, …
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I think the last time I heard the CBC’s official 1 o’clock time signal was last summer. That, it turns out, was about two months before they decided to kill it after nearly 84 years. It’s sad to see it go. It was a fixture on my radio growing up, as I’m sure it was …
As satisfying as it is to watch the Prime Minister of Canada absolutely torch Bell and others for the way they do business at all of our expense, I have to say that it would be much more satisfying if someone…anyone in government with any sort of real power had said some version of it …
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