He's such a needy, sad little fat man. Living with himself must be a constant battle between self-hatred and self-pity. No womder he doesn't sleep.

His health is running out fast. Thank you McDonalds! Please hurry up. He's got an appointment with the Devil.

P.S. when he gets there, no doubt he'll declare himself the King of Hell. If I were the Devil, I'd be worried.

jon wrote:

The ground-based repeater in your area may be off the air.  That happened to me several times over the years. Satellite reception can be almost non-existent in underpasses and when a tall building is between you and the satellite.

I've noticed when driving into or right in Toronto, reception is almost totally from their terrestrial transmitter.

One of the U.S. DX Clubs, the IRCA, did a technical article 4-5 years ago with some pretty impressive evidence that the path from North America over the North Pole to Europe is "more conductive" than the reverse path.  All that said, here in Edmonton, I have heard one or two Carriers from England before the higher powered stations were shut down a few years back.  Back in the 1960s, a late DXer in Edmonton heard quite a bit of stations from Europe before sunset in the Winter afternoons, especially an hour or two before an Aurora hit Edmonton.

Five minutes into the news/sportscast, we gave up and found news elsewhere.

RadioActive wrote:

LOSat wrote:

Bell Media is probably crapping as well.   There goes access to HBO programming once their contracts end.

And Rogers has some of the Discovery programming on its City TV+ streaming service. Could they lose access to that, as well, when the contract ends?

Discovery's cable channels will be their own entity by end of next year anyways, that part was already in the works

I tuned to WTOR 770 just before 445 pm Friday afternoon.  The station played the Star Spangled Banner - as if the station was about to sign off.  
Sunset today Dec. 5th was at 437 pm EDT.

After the US national anthem played,  there was some dead air, and they read a long announcement - probably in Punjabi with phone #s for various cities, Montreal, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver.   Then back into music.  At 453 pm, they did an English language ID, then a long commercial cluster, and more music   At 5 pm they were still on the air with more commercials and music.   Then at 500 pm they played about 20 seconds of the end of the US national anthem.  Then there was "sign on"announcement with the name of the ownership (Birach Broadcasting) and believe it or not.  "Good morning"......you're listening to WTOR.....
Clearly these guys are out of compliance.    

Skywave, do you know anyone at WABC who might want to alert the FCC?

 

Too early to worry about Bell and Rogers.  CNN reports approvals and any changes won't happen until into 2027.  More consolidation will happen in 2026 I bet.  This likely doesn't bode well for movie theatres or broadcast TV. 

bbqguy1962 wrote:

Wayner really covered himself with glory. He certainly showed the value of a high school education.

We certainly learned that he failed geography

What a horrendous effort

LOSat wrote:

Bell Media is probably crapping as well.   There goes access to HBO programming once their contracts end.

And Rogers has some of the Discovery programming on its City TV+ streaming service. Could they lose access to that, as well, when the contract ends?

I know, I know. I've been really critical of CFTO these past few weeks, but what happened on Friday's noon show made me watch the screen with my mouth open, asking, "what the hell was that?"

It started with the FIFA World Cup Draw story, which, while of absolutely no interest to yours truly (soccer to me is like watching paint dry, only not as interesting. But your mileage may differ) I admit this is a big story. They did a live hit with Allison Hirst at some Toronto watch party for three minutes then it was back to the studio. 

Fair enough. 

But then, they went to the live coverage from Washington, where they showed a half finished musical performance, a painful back-and-forth with Heidi Klum and Kevin Hart, which went on forever, and then back to event host and actor Danny Ramirez in the audience, where half the people were speaking Spanish without a translator. 

Now we're eight minutes into the newscast and we're still almost an hour away from the big announcement and draw. They then did a backgrounder, a story on unauthorized use of the FIFA name, a very long TSN-taped interview with former player Dwayne de Rosario and finally back to the newsroom. By now, we were 12 minutes into a one hour show, and time was ticking. And we were no closer to the actual draw, making what had come before a bit of a waste. 

They did some crime and other stories for a bit and then, about three minutes later, on comes Scott Hirst with - what else? - more World Cup set-up, and again no payoff. By this point, we're 17 minutes into a news show without much real news in it. Hirst droned on for over three minutes, followed by more news. 

But wait it didn't end there. Towards the end of the show, we were transported back to Washington, for live coverage of P.M. Mark Carney picking Canada's name out of a group of balls, the president of Mexico picking her county's name from another container, and we were about to see Donald Trump pick the final name (three guesses: it was the U

WRCR 1700 (repeating WABC) was coming like like a local this afternoon around 2:30 p.m. here in Ajax.

I believe they also did one last week and possibly a few weeks before. I don't always get the chance to listen at that time. It seems to be a Friday at 7:36 AM feature and goes commercial free until the 8 AM news.

I will have to try this out on my DX-286 after 5pm. It does an excellent job of nulling. I may try the car radio too on the 401.

No I haven't watched any of the "trainwreck" I am mildly interested in who our opponents will be. Canada still holds the dubious honour of being the only country not to score a goal in its opening round. That happened in 1986. In 2022 we were able to score two goals! Maybe in 2026, we will obtain a draw or maybe one victory. Advancement to the next round... Well Leaf fans know all about that. Face it Canada is to soccer what hockey is to Italy.