torontostan wrote:

One has to look inside oneself on occasion

Thanks, Mr. Carney. I'll let Rosemary Barton know.

But I will admit I have problems with all the local newscasts. Given the market size and the talent available, they should all be better. Especially CTV. But they're not. 

The other thing CTV does, mostly on their noon show, is waste viewers' time with Jessica Smith attending a new art exhibit or a mural unveiling or some other community event. These segments, while seemingly great for P.R., are generally uninteresting and certainly not real "news", as the artist drones on and on about his or her "vision" and what they're trying to say with their sculpture/painting or clay pot.

A more pretentious waste of airtime you will rarely see, and not only do they often go on as a time filler for up to four or five minutes, you sometimes don't actually get to see the art they're talking about until the segment is nearly over. So what, exactly, is the point?

And to add insult to injury, they almost always do this right before the one thing I really do want to see - the weather! Which brings us right back to where we started...

There's absolutely no point in posting a podcast to promote a non-existent show.

The NYE Concert at the Falls was always better acts compare to what Toronto had to offer

RadioAaron wrote:

torontostan wrote:

Saul wrote:

From the article:  “As requested, we have committed to responding to the students with further details soon. For now, I can confirm we are in the process of engaging with community partners who have voiced an interest in Fanshawe’s broadcasting license.”

I have no idea what's being planned or what kind of partners Fanshawe is talking about - and that will all determine whether it's a valid replacement or bullshit.

This infers that it'll become a community station instead of the current campus station license.....
 

They're virtually the same. Switching would be a minor technicality

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-499.htm?_ga=2.239334531.185122287.1717692376-272672049.1717082154

Technicality sure, but the funding is very different

Ageist much?

My weather app is terrible. Can't find one I like. I prefer to see the Futurecast maps, so I can slow them down and check out the exact (or as close to it as possible) timeline of approx. when the storm is expected to hit. So I'll use the TV forecast, thanks. Except when they stand right in front of the clock, blocking it so you can't see the timeline at all. 

What, exactly, is the point of showing a clock if you're going to stand in front of the bloody thing every time?

Speaking of the weather I guess we can blame the wintery weather for the technical issues going on at CTV London tonight. Yep they had to do a regional newscast tonight due to a techincal problem so they had to do the newscast from the London studio where the control room and the onscreen graphics are done from. Hopefully things will be back to normal tommorow. But due to the issues. Carlyle had to read every script from a piece of paper because the teleprompter was not working. The weather segments were not that bad but still I wonder if it’s a fiber optic issue at CTV London or a problem at CTV Windsor.

Saul wrote:

From the article:  “As requested, we have committed to responding to the students with further details soon. For now, I can confirm we are in the process of engaging with community partners who have voiced an interest in Fanshawe’s broadcasting license.”

I have no idea what's being planned or what kind of partners Fanshawe is talking about - and that will all determine whether it's a valid replacement or bullshit.

This infers that it'll become a community station instead of the current campus station license.....
 

RadioAaron wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

According to this article Peacock has been stuck at 41 million subscribers, and so far not not made any money..From ScreenMedia..https://nscreenmedia.com/peacock-profitability-derailed-nba/#:~:text=Peacock's%20profitability%20seemed%20within%20reach%2C%20until%20the%20NBA!&text=Peacock%20lost%20%24101%20million%20in,of%20the%20NBA%20to%20Peacock.

There's a long way to go to figuring out how to make this all work. 41 million subscribers would seem like a guarantee to make money, but how many are actually paying anything close to full pice? Services are being bundled together or included in phone plans. Peacock is free to anyone who pays for Walmart+.

The "41 million" number is paid subscribers. If you're NBC.... you attribute as much of your program acquisition costs to your streamer so that wall street goes easier on you for the losses. As a whole, they're doing fine. Comcast's media segment EBITDA was 28% last quarter
 

Counting on ad-dollars to fund anything that provides popular original content, other than YouTube, is a dead-end.

paterson1 wrote:

According to this article Peacock has been stuck at 41 million subscribers, and so far not not made any money..From ScreenMedia..https://nscreenmedia.com/peacock-profitability-derailed-nba/#:~:text=Peacock's%20profitability%20seemed%20within%20reach%2C%20until%20the%20NBA!&text=Peacock%20lost%20%24101%20million%20in,of%20the%20NBA%20to%20Peacock.

There's a long way to go to figuring out how to make this all work. 41 million subscribers would seem like a guarantee to make money, but how many are actually paying anything close to full pice? Services are being bundled together or included in phone plans. Peacock is free to anyone who pays for Walmart+.

paterson1 wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

I've been on boards and worked with some of the colleges, and many of them had taken, or were in the process of taking steps to restructure the programs to suit current realties, but it was mostly too little, too late. Things advance quickly and bureaucracies are anything but quick.

TMU did a really good job catching up, and I believe they're the only one left.

Conestoga College in Kitchener still has their two year radio program.  88.3 CJIQ is the campus station that the broadcast students run, along with streamer Q2.

That's great news; not one I've been directly involved with.

Actually, there are two major streaming services I can think of that Canadians don't have (legal) access to.

Peacock is one. Hulu is the other. Ironically, Hulu started out in life as a freebie, the place you could go to watch many network shows if you missed them. But over the years, it morphed into a pay service and still produces a number of half decent shows, including "Only Murders In The Building," with Steve Martin and Martin Short. 

But not if you're in Canada, where the rights to many of its best programs have been sold to other streamers here. 

According to this article Peacock has been stuck at 41 million subscribers, and so far not not made any money..From ScreenMedia..https://nscreenmedia.com/peacock-profitability-derailed-nba/#:~:text=Peacock's%20profitability%20seemed%20within%20reach%2C%20until%20the%20NBA!&text=Peacock%20lost%20%24101%20million%20in,of%20the%20NBA%20to%20Peacock.

This is what happens when you introduce a sales/client aspect into a newscast. You're forced to sit through whatever while you wait for what you want, the weather.

Yes, it's a good cause. No, I don't care that you're on location with Mattel nor do I care what their CEO has to say. Run separate promos during the newscast's commercial breaks. Stuff like this really shouldn't be incorporated into the actual newstime.

RadioAaron wrote:

torontostan wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

It's not like Peacock has exactly been a huge hit

It has 41 million subscribers.

Oh, wow. I would have never guessed that many. Disney+ has 59 million in the US, so they're up there.

The Olympics, nearly all Premier League games, a few exclusive NFL games, World Cup spanish rights, NBA games, and The Office. Plus they offer bundles with Apple TV. It has Disney+ beat for new content, but Disney has a massive back catalogue that trumps Peacock or Apple