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Rogers Sports and Media up and murdered six radio stations yesterday. Sportsnet 650 Vancouver, Sportsnet 960 Calgary, 660 NewsRadio Calgary, 1130 NewsRadio Vancouver, 95.7 NewsRadio Halifax, and most important to us living around here, 570 NewsRadio Kitchener. They did it for the same reason that all these cunts say they have to do it. I’m …
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Pretty sure I just ran into my first case of egregiously awful radio AI. Flipping around the dial and landed on Bounce Radio 99.5 Kitchener. Stayed there because I liked the song that was playing, which since I know someone will ask was “Don’t Wanna Fall In Love” by Jane Child. Song ends, and the …
Now that I’ve written this, I feel that I have a duty to note goofy sponsored sports stuff whenever I hear it. While listening to the Seattle Mariners game just now, I was informed that “the Mechanics Bank score is Mariners 1, Rangers nothing”. Two thoughts warred in my mind as I took that fact …
I missed last night’s Leafs season finale with the Senators. Judging by how it went, I think the Leafs did, too. It was a meaningless game in pretty much every respect. Toronto was long ago eliminated from the playoffs and the Sens already knew who they’d be matched up against, so everybody was just playing …
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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