This is less about getting rid of those channels and has more to do with the future of Peacock and NBC Universal's streaming business.   Bravo and NBC's shows do well in OTA services.  And if, say, they were trying to merge with Disney+/Hulu or Paramount+ (or both), it would make way more biz sense to lob those other channels off of a potential 3-way marriage and just negotiate with what makes them the most money.  

"The lone cable outlet set to remain within NBCUniversal is Bravo, which has a bold brand, cultural cachet and the "Real Housewives" franchises. Company executives reviewed data that showed NBC and Bravo shows had strong viewership on Peacock, insiders said.

The spinoff company will be composed of the remainder of the cable channels, including MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, Syfy, E! and the Golf Channel as well as digital properties, including Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango and SportsEngine."

Los Angeles Times: 

Behind Comcast's big TV deal: a bleak picture for once mighty cable industry

The on-air changes are already in place. Dani Stover's "Let's Talk" has been replaced by - what else? - a reroll of Alex Pierson's show, which aired from 9 AM - 12 PM on Wednesday. (It was actually from Tuesday by the sound of it.) I'm presuming it will be in its new time slot beginning Thursday. But they sure aren't giving listeners a chance to get used to the idea. 

Ironic that the final promo Kelly Cutrara did for the station before taking a few days off went something like this: 

"Hi. this is Kelly Cutrara. some of the subjects on my next show will be - well, wait a minute, I don't have any topics. I'm off and Ben Mulroney will be sitting in in my place."

Little did she know how right she was. 

And one last thing - I just heard Danny Longo do the 9 PM news. But I also heard him at noon and during the afternoon drive. After the newsroom blood bath, he appears to be the only one left, except for Dave Bradley. Is he really working a 9-hour shift? Or are they taping the later newscasts now? If the latter, that's a really, really dangerous thing to do if anything happens. 

RadioActive wrote:

For those curious about what this looks like, the Australian version of Jeopardy! airs Sunday night at 8 PM on CHCH. Good day (night?) mate!

Finally got around to watching the Australian version of Jeopardy.  Carbon copy of the UK version, same set, same host, Stephen Fry, and much slower pace than what we are use to.  The Australian franchise is actually shot in England, so this explains the similarities.  The contestants are all ex-pats living in the UK and Europe and some categories are geared for the Australian audience. 

I don't mind the slower pace of the show, which allows the host more time to chat and comment on the answers and questions.  Fry is exceedingly polite and comes across as genine and friendly.  Both the UK and Oz versions are one hour long. 

A little more ratings information on Sunday's Grey Cup.  Sports Illustrated reports that the total reach for the game was 9.9 million viewers.  The half time show with the Jonas Brothers had 4.25 million watching on TSN/CTV and RDS. https://www.si.com/cfl/fannation/cfl-news/111th-grey-cup-continues-trend-of-strong-viewership-numbers 

It’s all but one of their many cable channels, but nice spin attempt.

MSNBC’s liberal viewers have largely tuned out the network since Election Day, resulting in the lowest-rated Wednesday in eight years this week.


MSNBC averaged only 599,000 total viewers on Wednesday, November 13, for its smallest Wednesday audience since June 29, 2016. By comparison, Fox News Channel averaged 2.3 million total viewers on Wednesday this week.

Here is more on the story...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/msnbc-continues-lose-viewers-since-230051671.html
 

I'm certainly not one to defend Coulter, and I would agree that she was wrong to say that Canada was part of the Vietnam War. However, there were a significant number of Canadians who volunteered to serve in the US forces during the war, and I wonder if she might have conflated that with the idea that we were involved as a country. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Vietnam_War

It came through on my phone which was connected to the car while I was driving doing some errands this afternoon.   I completely forgot about the test and practically jumped out of the driver's seat.

eladb wrote:

I'm sure more re-rolls or paid programming will replace Ben Mulroney's weekend morning show, since I'm not sure anyone besides RA was listening.

I'm expecting paid programming. 

km93 wrote:

Only a matter of time before it suffers the same fate as CHML.

No. This is Toronto. There might be a multicultural station that would love to shut down THEIR (weaker) signal and move to 640.

CHML was down to 3 principal advertisers when they closed and 1 of those was a roofing company on the weekend afternoon only. (The other was Don Fox, whose pitches were heard twice an hour around the clock whenever I tuned in, and the 3rd I strangely can't remember right now)
AM640 has 5 maybe 6 staple sponsors. The two most recent are a penis problem company and an outfit from the poverty industry.  This change was unavoidable and somewhat late to my mind. Oh, and I would have kept Cutrara as she is the better talent. Pearson has crutches she repeats endlessly it's annoying.

Only a matter of time before it suffers the same fate as CHML.

I'll see if Mike will make a third post-Corus visit. Here's his most recent one.

https://www.torontomike.com/2023/11/mike-stafford-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1373/

Yup. My phone buzzed at precisely the scheduled time. My television was off then.