haydenmatthews14 wrote:

My guess is 102.9 will called “The Hammer” I find that name great in my opinion and keep the Adult Hits format. My guess for 105.7 in Niagara would be “Easy Rock” if they stay with the AC format unless they tweek the format to Hot AC they would call it “Cool 105.7”, “105.7 Today FM” not like the Vista branded 2Day stations. But if they went to CHR (Top 40) format it would be called “105.7 The Beat”. Now for 97.7 since they are doing well with their active rock format. I would guess that they are keeping the HTZ-FM branding along with 610 CKTB.

OK....let me stop you right there. Why in the HELL would CHRE rebrand as Cool 105.7 and do hot AC? There's a station about a few slots down the dial. You might have heard of it: 105.1 the River. They do the same format and have been doing it for quite a few years.

She's busy working on a new reality show about inflated lips and, if it goes badly, the dog gets shot.

I guess it went badly.

So this news release denies that Noem backs the pitch for the show, but it does not deny that such a pitch was made and is not a hoax.
The DHS confirms they get hundreds of pitches for TV and documentary shows.
As for Noem, she needed all the publicity like a hole in the head.
 

Glen Warren wrote:

Keith Morrison

Thanks for the memory jog Glen

Dial Twister wrote:

How about a Zellers, inside The Bay, inside Canadian Tire? 😁

Scary enough, that just might happen!! 

I miss that gentleman! I miss watching the show. 
"Stay aware and informed...FIGHT BACK! and don't let ANYONE rip YOU off!!!"
 

How about a Zellers, inside The Bay, inside Canadian Tire? 😁

Radiowiz wrote:

Forward Power wrote:

During my college years in the early 2000s, The Bay, which had a store in Kingston's Cataraqui Town Centre, was a regular advertiser on 98.3 FLY FM; this was when Zellers, also in "The Cat Centre", was also still doing radio. Still remember The Bay's jingle at the time: "more than you came for.....at The Bay!" Sometimes followed by the thunderclap and "FLY FM Satellite Weather..."

I still remember "It's hard not to think of the Bay..."  A jingle I think they should bring back and make good use of. 

At least one version of that "It's hard not to think of the Bay" jingle was sung by that chorus that also sang about Yorkdale ("Yorkdale!  Yorkdale!").  They always seemed to be slightly dissonant no matter what they were singing.  Not necessarily bad, just seemed like everyone was trying to outdo everyone else in the chorus.  Then again, maybe it's my tin ear. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AspectRatio wrote:

Shorty Wave wrote:

Didn’t Turner used to do an hour on-air before Moore came on? Pretty sure when I worked an early shift that Turner was on really early, like 4 - 4:30am but I could be wrong as that was a while back.

Yes, Turner took over "The Early Edition" from Iain Grant. It ran 5:00-5:30 am when John Moore's show began at 5:30 am. Newscaster Dave Agar would eventually join Turner to riff on stories of the day. I think the station's live programming only ever began at 5:00 am; rerolls until then.

The old lineup here suggests it ran one hour long from 5:00-6:00 am in the Bill Carroll era when Bill's show began at 6:00 am.

 
Thanks AspectRatio, appreciate your detailed response, I was after the Iain Grant era and only know Bill Carroll from the Frank Leo adnauseam ads!

Binson Echorec wrote:

If this ever comes to light, I'm sure that Canadian producer's career might just be "Worsoff".

 
You’re correct BE, Rob Worsoff was just interviewed on CNN, he is Canadian and from Montreal and I suggest we all disassociate!

Great move by CTC. I wish them great success ! 

With close to 70 wildfires burning in Central Canada presently, and seeing temps in the upper 20's to 30c in Northern Ontario, I understand the severity of climate change. Until the biggest offending countries on the other side of the world get on board, and the current administration south of us not willing to do anything to change anything, nothing is going to change in the near term. I have 4 grandchildren under 4 years old, I worry for them and all of the next generations. 

Any climate change deniers (right-wing or not, though in my experience it just seems to be a right-wing thing) honestly will keep denying it until their homes are flooded, their cars are floating on the water, and half their furniture  has been blown to China.

I'm still mad that all that Conservative propaganda about the carbon levy increasing grocery bills (despite studies showing it barely does) caused the end of the carbon tax rebate. That was free money every year for low income people who mostly take transit or in my case, just walk all the time.

They honestly don't see how close we are now to reaching the point of no return where a dangerous chain reaction of heat causes other changes that lead to more heat, leading to more global changes that lead to more heat...  I just hope all these deniers own ocean-front property when things really get worse.

 

happened to be listening in the car to AM 640 today, Alex Pierson show.
She had on a panel discussing things like reasons for the supposed Alberta separation issue (non issue).
Panel members spent most time bashing any efforts to curtail or regulate use of carbon and fossil fuels.
In other words rehashing worn out opposition to any notion of climate change, man made etc.
Anyway the segment ended and it went to a commercial break to lead into the next segment.
The commercial was from the insurance companies of Ontario acknowledging the increase of "severe weather" in Ontario and what insurance companies will do to help.
Had a good chuckle that after the talk show panel climate denial they threw to the very conservative insurance industry eagerly acknowledging severe weather from climate change.

mace wrote:

Hey Fitz: What question did you have to answer correctly to win the 97ROCK Professor P t-shirt. Very cool shirt. Hopefully it still fits.

The T-Shirt still fits. Afraid I don't remember the question. I went back to check my records and by the time I won that on May 10/2000 I had stopped listing the question which I did for  number of years.. Below is the entry for the win:

Edit: Just notticed on the sheet that I had won a CBL T-shirt and baseball cap and both may be long gone.