When the Frantics were doing their Frantic Times radio show in the early 80s, I was a tiny little baby and didn’t get to hear it. So now that there’s a chance to maybe get my hands on a bunch of those shows as a series of free podcasts, it only makes sense that I’d …
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This Is What A Wildcard Walk-Off Sounds Like
This is fun…unless you’re an Orioles fan, I suspect. It’s the sound of Edwin Encarnacion’s walk-off home run at the end of last week’s Wildcard game as heard live at the Dome, on ESPN’s Spanish feed, TBS, WJZ Baltimore, RDS (the French equivalent of TSN) and The Fan 590 Toronto. Based on this, I think …
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We’re About To Live In A World Where Vin Scully Isn’t Calling Baseball Games And I’m Not Sure I’m Ready For It
Growing up, I knew of Vin Scully, but I didn’t really know of Vin Scully. I would here his voice sometimes doing the calls on history videos and I was pretty sure he was the guy from Los Angeles, but that was about it. I live nowhere close to California so picking him up on …
August 14th Will Be The End Of 1410 CKSL
When I wrote last week about the impending doom of CKSL, it wasn’t yet known when the axe would fall. Well, word has just come down that that day will be this Sunday, August 14th. Unrelated aside: How the hell is it possible that August 14th is this Sunday? Where is this year going? Included …
1410 CKSL London Will Be Going Off The Air Soon
I’m having another end of an era moment. I just learned that at some point in the near future, London’s AM 1410 CKSL will cease to exist. Not because of a dramatic format shift (that’s already happened to that station several times), but because Bell Media recently applied to the CRTC to have its license …
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Screaming TV’s And Radios: It’s Not Just For Weather Alerts Anymore
Last Sunday night, we were watching TV like any other night. I should note that the weather outside was completely calm and anything but frightful. Then, all of a sudden, the sound that I thought was strictly reserved for weather events went off. Sorry I had to use a shitty Youtube video that was taken …
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Someone Knows Something, And It’d Be Great If They’d Share It With The Rest Of Us
I’m a big fan of crime documentaries, so this sounds like it might be worth checking out. But gees Louise, the announcement needs work. Not just because of the typos, either. The bigger issue is that in all the gushing and such over the host’s credentials, previous work and who’s doing the music, they forgot …
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I Must Be Somewhere Else. Someone Just Suggested Less, More Sensible Regulation. In Canada
Canada’s Competition Bureau has taken a break from aproving mega mergers with horrible idea written all over them that allow companies like Bell Media to fire everyone in sight even though they’re raking in hundreds of millions of dollars to toss out some entirely sensible suggestions on how municipalities and provinces should best handle ride …
Rex Murphy Is Leaving Cross Country Checkup. I’d Have Said That In Bigger Words, But It’s Early
I’m hardly what you’d call a regular listener, but Rex Murphy retiring as host of Cross Country Checkup on September 20th still qualifies to me as pretty big news just because he’s such a fixture up here. Rex says, “It’s the right time for me to step down. The continuing conversation I have had every …
Enjoy The Music While You Can. TSN Radio 1150 Arrives On Labour Day
Seeing as a good number of people have been coming here lately looking for info and a couple have even asked me about it, I thought I’d pass on the news I just got about the end of classic hits CKOC and the beginning of TSN Radio 1150 Hamilton. As I figured but never confirmed, …
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