SOWNY » K-LOVE 102.5 Toronto coming soon... » Today 8:51 am |
Evuguy wrote:
Tuned 102.5 just gone midnight and K-Love was back. Oh well, nice while it lasted.
Hallelujah!! Prise the Lord!!! they're back!! Good for them!
Unlike the 1970's they were still able to say they're not on the air when they're not on the air thanks to still being on the air through that modern day thing called streaming.
SOWNY » Here's a real YouTube oddity - Bizarre Hijacking Of CFNY-FM (Late 80s) » Today 8:47 am |
Easily Amused wrote:
The 'old guard' from the glory years carrying out a raid? 🤔
Whoever did it - it was definitely done from the studio itself....the Van Halen fade-out, the next song starting clean as the piece ends...
Maybe a. protest for having to play "jump" on CFNY?
SOWNY » Former Network Comedy Making Unusual Comeback With Original Cast » Today 8:45 am |
It doesn't happen often, but ABC has confirmed it's bringing back the medical comedy "Scrubs," with all three of the main leads returning. It's been off the air for 15 years and you might think that's a record for a show to make a comeback.
But there's at least one other sitcom that beats it - and it died an ignoble death upon its return. "Murphy Brown" debuted on CBS beginning in 1988, and ran for a decade, winning multiple Emmy Awards. CBS brought it back in 2018 - some 20 years later - with most of the original cast. It limped along across the season, before being quietly dumped a few months later.
"Family Guy" is another show that made a dramatic comeback. Fox cancelled it in 2002, noticed how well it was doing in video sales and on cable reruns and brought it back with the original voice cast in 2005 - and it's still running today some 20 years later. One of the most remarkably successful comebacks in TV history.
‘Scrubs’ Reboot Scores ABC Series Order With Donald Faison & Sarah Chalke Joining Zach Braff
SOWNY » Here's a real YouTube oddity - Bizarre Hijacking Of CFNY-FM (Late 80s) » Today 8:44 am |
The 'old guard' from the glory years carrying out a raid? 🤔
SOWNY » CRTC adds condition's to the Local News Fund » Today 8:41 am |
How stupid.... CRTC forgot that "broad" from broadcasting means many, not a few.
SOWNY » Is Today's News From Washington A Sign of Darker Times Ahead » Today 8:40 am |
Shorty Wave wrote:
I’m waiting for the mandatory cavity searches for Congress, it’s coming!
Judging from the quality of appointments made under Agent Orange 47, it will be assholes peering into assholes. 🤔
SOWNY » Is Today's News From Washington A Sign of Darker Times Ahead » Today 8:27 am |
Shorty Wave wrote:
I’m waiting for the mandatory cavity searches for Congress, it’s coming!
This is why I dread my dentist appt. on Monday. She always does a cavity search!
SOWNY » Is Today's News From Washington A Sign of Darker Times Ahead » Today 8:25 am |
I’m waiting for the mandatory cavity searches for Congress, it’s coming!
SOWNY » CFRB Show Does Salute To Casey Kasem » Today 8:14 am |
RadioActive wrote:
It first aired on July 4th, but I heard it on a replay Thursday night.
It was on the Night Shift with Shane Hewitt and featured interviews with both music publicist Eric Alper and Canadian hitmaker Andy Kim.
During the two segment back-and-forth, Kim remembered how incredible he felt hearing Kasem introduce one of his songs on American Top 40, and noted how special it was, especially since both men were of Lebanese origin.
Kim also recalled listening to WABC while growing up in Montreal, noting how Cousin Brucie's reviews of how girls were going crazy over the latest pop group made him decide to get into music.
It's a rare example of radio looking at itself. And you can hear the entire thing here.
I caught this too last night, nice piece of radio from Hewitt. I had to laugh when Eric Alper mentioned there’s no AmERICa without Eric, or something along those lines! Check it out people, and thanks RA.
SOWNY » Sitcoms That Still Make You Laugh [REALLY LAUGH] » Today 8:06 am |
g121 wrote:
Thank you for this : )) ..
I finished watching the entire "Young Sheldon" series while I do my 2.2 mile trek on my walking pad each morning.
Looking for another watch, I gave Superstore a try. I had never even heard of it but given the several mentions in this thread, it seemed promising.
I think it's quite good even a tad risque for network TV. I'm just finishing up Season 2. The only characters I dislike are Bo (Cheyenne's hubby) & Pharmacist Tate.
Fun fact/question: Jeff appears to be the same guy from the infamous, hilarious Kmart "Ship My Pants" commercial.
Mike Bunin
Superstore Jeff 2016–2021 28 episodes
Other works: The "ship my pants" guy from the K-Mart commercial.
I hope you enjoy Superstore g121 as much as I did! And if you do, you should check out “St. Denis Medical”. It is the latest sitcom from the Superstore team that premiered last year and can be watched on the CTV app or Crave I believe. A second season is currently in production, which is good!
SOWNY » HTZ FM Web » Today 7:51 am |
tdotwriter wrote:
Currently, the websites at 610cktb.com and htzfm.com are both publicly announced as coming soon. Interestingly, it appears the website for 97.7 HTZ-FM will remain at the historical htzfm.com domain name and not the new 977htzfm.com domain registered by Caine himself.
It wasn't registered by Caine, it was registered by Bell. It's since been transferred to him
SOWNY » CKOC audio has been bad for two days » Today 7:48 am |
Neither would really need a studio. They could be cloud operations.
SOWNY » Here's a real YouTube oddity - Bizarre Hijacking Of CFNY-FM (Late 80s) » Today 7:30 am |
That's even more bizarre than the Max Headroom signal hijacking of the two Chicago TV stations in 1987.
PJ
SOWNY » Here's a real YouTube oddity - Bizarre Hijacking Of CFNY-FM (Late 80s) » Today 7:13 am |
Maybe you get these from time to time, a downright weird and/or random recommendation on YouTube. It happens to me a fair bit. Recently, one such recommendation was a recording of a supposed hijacking of CFNY's broadcast signal in the late 1980s. What it even is is difficult for me to describe, but it sounds like something that's deliberately meant to be jarring and unsettling for the listener. As far as I'm concerned, this is most likely one of those modern social media attempts at "Analog horror" whereby a depiction is created in modern times of something frightening, baffling, disturbing or a combination thereof of something that was supposedly broadcast in the era of the prevalence of analog storage media, typically the 1980s to the 2000s. In any case, analog horror simply means "fake vintage recording" and there are many examples of it that I find very creative and entertaining. A thread regarding this was also posted on the Lost Media Wiki forum, but that never went anywhere, nor did the comment section on the YouTube video see any significant response. Does anybody with any memory of that era recall anything the likes of this happening on local airwaves?
SOWNY » Canada Is The Only Country That Does This In Relation To Local Content » Today 6:52 am |
I think the sole intention here is to make sure that domestic talent for production is utilized as heavily as possible. Even actual location(s) of production and infrastructure which are themselves a lot more prolific and abundant than in generations past doesn't seem to really be a concern. This really looks like the polar opposite of the arcane MAPL (Music, Artist, Production and Lyrics) system for defining Canadian content in music which is mired in technicalities to the point that obvious examples of Canadian music (i.e. Everything I Do by Bryan Adams) are excluded.
SOWNY » HTZ FM Web » Today 6:36 am |
Currently, the websites at 610cktb.com and htzfm.com are both publicly announced as coming soon. Interestingly, it appears the website for 97.7 HTZ-FM will remain at the historical htzfm.com domain name and not the new 977htzfm.com domain registered by Caine himself.
SOWNY » The Worst Summer For Broadcast TV Ever » Today 6:26 am |
Well, that's too bad.
SOWNY » Canada Is The Only Country That Does This In Relation To Local Content » Today 6:22 am |
We all know about the history of CanCon and how it requires radio stations here to play at least 30% of home grown artists. The rules also apply to TV, but there are bizarre rules here that don't apply to other countries which also impose local quotas.
In places like the UK, France and Australia, a show or movie that takes place in the same nation or was shot there counts towards fulfilling the mandate. Of all the nations in the Canadian Media Fund's list, Canada is the only country that bases its CanCon solely on the personnel involved in a production - and nothing else.
So if you were to produce a TV series about a Canuck joining the Mounties and trying to save the Great White North from crime but it didn't employ enough Canadians, it won't count as CanCon. I knew this, but seeing the stats side-by-side brings it, you should pardon the expression, home. A Canadian story about Canadians that takes place in Canada isn't enough to make it Canadian. That's insane. Check out the chart below.
Why Canadian Themes And Filming In Canada Doesn't Count As Canadian Content
SOWNY » CKOC audio has been bad for two days » Today 6:20 am |
Or St Catharines at the "White House". Would that not be possible?
SOWNY » CFRB Show Does Salute To Casey Kasem » Today 6:09 am |
It first aired on July 4th, but I heard it on a replay Thursday night.
It was on the Night Shift with Shane Hewitt and featured interviews with both music publicist Eric Alper and Canadian hitmaker Andy Kim.
During the two segment back-and-forth, Kim remembered how incredible he felt hearing Kasem introduce one of his songs on American Top 40, and noted how special it was, especially since both men were of Lebanese origin.
Kim also recalled listening to WABC while growing up in Montreal, noting how Cousin Brucie's reviews of how girls were going crazy over the latest pop group made him decide to get into music.
It's a rare example of radio looking at itself. And you can hear the entire thing here.
SOWNY » CKOC audio has been bad for two days » Today 2:18 am |
Just out of curiosity, does anybody know where CKOC's and CHAM's studios are currently located? I know that CKLH relocated to 25 Main Street West in downtown Hamilton, but as CKLH and the two AMs are no longer sister stations, I assume they're located somewhere else. Supposedly all three stations vacated 883 Upper Wentworth Street quite a while back. Are the two AMs broadcasting out of Toronto?
PJ
SOWNY » Is Today's News From Washington A Sign of Darker Times Ahead » Today 1:12 am |
From the New York Times, July 10 2025:
The FBI is said to be using lie detectors to test employees’ loyalty, asking some whether they have criticized Kash Patel.
…
Typically, the F.B.I. has turned to polygraph tests to sniff out employees who might have betrayed their country or shown they cannot be trusted with secrets.
Since Kash Patel took office as the director of the F.B.I., the bureau has significantly stepped up the use of the lie-detector test, at times subjecting personnel to a question as specific as whether they have cast aspersions on Mr. Patel himself.In interviews and polygraph tests, the F.B.I. has asked senior employees whether they have said anything negative about Mr. Patel, according to two people with knowledge of the questions and others familiar with similar accounts.
In one instance, officials were forced to take a polygraph as the agency sought to determine who disclosed to the news media that Mr. Patel had demanded a service weapon, an unusual request given that he is not an agent. The number of officials asked to take a polygraph is in the dozens, several people familiar with the matter said, though it is unclear how many have specifically been asked about Mr. Patel.The use of the polygraph, and the nature of the questioning, is part of the F.B.I.’s broader crackdown on news leaks, reflecting, to a degree, Mr. Patel’s acute awareness of how he is publicly portrayed.
The moves, former bureau officials say, are politically charged and highly inappropriate, underscoring what they describe as an alarming quest for fealty at the F.B.I., where there is little tolerance for dissent. Disparaging Mr. Patel or his deputy, Dan Bongino, former officials say, could cost people their job.“An F.B.I. employee’s loyalty is to the Constitution, not to the director or deputy director,” said James Davidson, a former agent who spent 23 y
SOWNY » Sitcoms That Still Make You Laugh [REALLY LAUGH] » Yesterday 11:02 pm |
I would say:
Green Acres
Leave it to Beaver
Dennis The Menace ( the episodes with the first Mr Wilson)
Beverley Hillbillies
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeanie
My Favorite Martian
Munsters
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Andy Griffiths ( up to the Barney Fife era)
Honorable mention Lost In Space not a sitcom but fun.
Green Acres actually stared to jell a few episodes into the first season. Once the Hank Kimbell character was fully developed. Does anyone remember that an early episode had Alf playing another character without Ralph. Also Ralph was Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched for at leaset one episode after the first Mrs. K passed.
Also have been going thru the episodes of Rod Serling's Night Gallery and each show featured up to 3 stories and there were quite a few shorts that I would term horror/comedy.
SOWNY » the Rogers gouging continues... » Yesterday 10:06 pm |
Bettman money.
SOWNY » Sitcoms That Still Make You Laugh [REALLY LAUGH] » Yesterday 9:36 pm |
Hansa wrote:
I like 1970s/80s Britcoms ..
Give "My Hero" a try .. it's quirky funny, i found it a real hoot !!
SOWNY » What Is CTV's Jessica Smith's Obsession With The Downtown Core? » Yesterday 8:56 pm |
The Weed wrote:
mace wrote:
I use the Clime weather app. If rain [green, yellow or orange] or snow [light blue, dark blue] is approaching you can actually zoom in on your street to see how close the system is to your neighbourhood.
Does the Clime app use the NOAA in the US? If so, there may not be much information soon if the NOAA is defunded.
They do and the heat/tornado/severe thunderstorm watches and warnings are still displayed in great detail.
SOWNY » Sitcoms That Still Make You Laugh [REALLY LAUGH] » Yesterday 8:47 pm |
arc23 wrote:
I would add Perfect Strangers to that list
Don't be rediculous.
SOWNY » External AM Radio Antenna » Yesterday 8:46 pm |
fybush wrote:
mace wrote:
A few stations I plan to check out reception wise. CFOS, WUFO, WECK, WJR, CKLW/CJBQ and the Weak Buffalo stations on 1120 and 1400. They seem to change call letters often so it is difficult to remember them.
1400 has been WWWS since 1993, actually. I believe that's now longer than it spent as WYSL.
And 1120 last changed calls 20 years ago, when it took the WBBF calls that used to be in Rochester.
Thanks. As soon as I saw the call letters, I recognized them.
SOWNY » External AM Radio Antenna » Yesterday 8:45 pm |
turkeytop wrote:
mace wrote:
A few stations I plan to check out reception wise. CFOS, WUFO, WECK, WJR, CKLW/CJBQ and the Weak Buffalo stations on 1120 and 1400. They seem to change call letters often so it is difficult to remember them.
What is your QTH?
I live a bit south of RA. He lives in Northern North York. I am in the Avenue Rd/401 area.
SOWNY » Just Who Is Spence Diamonds Aiming Their Ads At? » Yesterday 8:35 pm |
WIth that, Spence should probably concentrate their ad budget with 680 News, as that's where the higher income earners hang out, at least based on the car ads.