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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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A few moves I feel the need to comment on. Bell Canada slashing 4,800 jobs, selling 45 radio stations I didn’t realize there were that many people still working there. I kid, but only a little. In the last few years that company has been gutted until there’s nothing left to gut, and then somehow …
The writing had been on the wall for quite a while especially once Evanov signalled that they had totally given up on the thing by dumping a religious format there and moving the country station to FM, but I was still a little surprised when I read that Brantford’s 1380 CKPC had shut down as …
Do you put the radio on for the dog when you go out? It won’t keep your pet calm, study finds Science is science I guess, but anecdotally, I’m not buying this one. I can’t speak for Domino yet because he’s only been here for a few weeks and we haven’t needed to leave him …
If you enjoyed that 1934 Yankees Tigers game I posted a couple of years ago, then chances are this YouTube channel I just discovered is going to be your jam. It’s called Classic Baseball on the Radio, and it’s exactly what you would think it would be with a name like that. Full length radio …
This won’t be for everyone, but if you’re fascinated by what goes on in radio station control rooms or at least what used to go on in there, nearly a half hour of audio recorded during a morning show on 680 CHFI Toronto in the spring of 1971 might be fun. You can download the …