Monty Python had a sketch where a group of actors performed Julius Caeaser using Aldis lamps... those light flashers used by the navy for ship to ship communication.
 

Can those who want to listen to AM radio not pick it up on their cell phones, thus negating the need to have an actual AM radio on their dashboard.

cash wrote:

I guess TSN is stuck with the CFL for a long, long time. 

Speaking of TSN & the CFL...

Sources: TSN president Johnston top candidate to become CFL commissioner

Back when I had to do a lot of “time math” for broadcast purposes, I would have loved metric time.

Radiowiz wrote:

torontostan wrote:

Really strange for democrats to support this bill.... AM radio is one of the biggest pushers of far-right conservative media aka misinformation... killing AM would help eliminate these despicable people (think Alex Jones types) from the airwaves.

Nawww they'll just move to FM. 

Not in medium to larger markets. They’re also-ran stations not worth sacrificing an FM for.

Democrats passed it because they’re old and believe the bogus “emergency service” argument.

torontostan wrote:

Really strange for democrats to support this bill.... AM radio is one of the biggest pushers of far-right conservative media aka misinformation... killing AM would help eliminate these despicable people (think Alex Jones types) from the airwaves.

Nawww they'll just move to FM. 

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

torontostan wrote:

Their schedule appears to show they'll syndicate CFZM for most of the day.... meaning a significantly older playlist.... not sure that's wise but alas....

Almost like they do for classical fm.
They nead to make a seperate fight back show for CJOS.
Who in Owin sound wants to hear about Toronto issues?

Fight Back is one of the programs that won't be syndicated to Owen Sound, according to zoomerfm.ca
 

I am not a big fan of practical jokes, but I still laugh at the great one I believe used on CFTR years ago.
A news story was about how Canada was switching to "metric time."
If I remember the story interviewed an expert who described in great detail how to convert regular time into metric time.
The other one I remember was when a news story told listeners to put a plastic bag around their home phones for the day because the phone company was going to be blowing the dust out of the phone lines and it didn't want people's homes to get all dirty.
And of course there was perhaps the greatest hoax of all time.
The BBC "documentary" about how Italians harvested spaghetti each year from the spaghetti trees.
Another great one was when the Toronto Star published a very convincing story complete with technical drawings about how the city was going to add to the height of the CN Tower by cutting off part of it and moving in a new section using a helicopter.
The Canadian Press actually fell for the story and put it out on their wire service.
This established a routine that stands to this day where Management at CP put out a memo reminding editors about April Fools, and not to publish any story that sounds even remotely fishy.



 

This old thread is back because it now appears the U.S.' "AM For Every Vehicle" Act is gaining steam and - while there's still a ways to go - could end up becoming law down there. Would Canada follow suit, with all the tariff confusion going on and how intertwined the two countries are when it comes to cars, despite what the Orange idiot thinks?

Stay tuned. 

AM Radio Act Clears Filibuster Hurdle With Senate Supermajority

That's fine too. It doesn't matter.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

did'nt zoomer promiss a rock format?
Because what I'm hearing on the stream sounds the same as 740

But, sofar, it has a much softer sound from 740.
It sounds more like the old the jewel format.

did'nt zoomer promiss a rock format?
Because what I'm hearing on the stream sounds the same as 740

There's nothing quite like putting up an April Fool's story - only to have another member of the media fall for it hook, line and sinker. That's what happened to AM 640's Ben Mulroney on Tuesday, after he was shown a story from BlogTO about a restaurant that lets staff tell patrons how much they have to tip. 

Mulroney was livid about the idea, and how tipping itself has gone out of control. So he devoted a entire block of time talking about it during his show and taking calls of outrage from equally fooled listeners. It wasn't until he saw the French name of the supposed diner - Revoir le Calendrier - that it finally dawned on him the whole thing was a fake. (It means "Look at the Calendar.") 

Alex Pierson also got taken, although not on air. She walked into the station to find her producer, Mike Drolet, on the phone with the program director, telling him which topics and segments she was no longer allowed to do - all of which she had prepared for and which would have forced her to start her show with nothing planned. He quickly revealed it was an April 1st joke. 

And at first, she was not amused!

We used to play jokes on listeners, not on each other. But times, as they say, have changed. 

I always wanted the engineering department to redirect feeds so stations within the family could broadcast on each other's frequencies - put CHFI on 92.5 and vice versa, extra points if you add 680News and 590 to the rotation.

Was lucky enough to not hear it during MITM today.

I have yet another awful ad nomination: the newish Sleep Country ad about the invisible to the eye crawlies that build up on our pillows is mite-ily creepy.

Sidebar: I also popped on here to see if anyone on the big yellow board had posted on how the Hooters bankruptcy was covered or uncovered on the radio shows this morning cause of all the rich headline possibilities but nada...

My top two, pun intended:

Hooters Bankruptcy: School of hard knockers.

Hooters Front Closure: Thanks for the mammaries.

I did enjoy the way the Hooters topic was touched on during John Moore's show, the talk was tongue in cheek and not foot in mouth.