It's surprising that there's been so little attention paid in the media or generally to the fact that a children's entertainer who was ubiquitous on TVO in the 70s on shows like Polka Dot Door and Cucumber as well as a regular on Uncle Bobby was a convicted pedophile - whose 1974(!) conviction didn't interrupt his career in children's television! 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Laurier

I haven't had a TV in ten years.

Did it cause interference with CBLT in the Niagara Region when they were also on channel 6? 

Oh also Dick Van Dyke Show reruns. It's interesting how many black and white reruns were on TV, particularly aimed at kids, in the seventies even though most people had colour TVs by then.

It's a bit of a strange list and like a lot of these lists there's no particular rationale - it's largely subjective. There are also some sloppy picture selections - for example 48. Bless This House - is about the 1995  Andrew Dice Clay series from CBS but the picture is from the British series from the 70s starring Sid James - who looks nothing like Dice Clay. I don't know whose picture is accompanying #45 AKA Pablo but it's definitely not the show's star Paul Rodriguez. 

I agree about the Jackie Gleason Show - I assumed they must have been talking about You're In The Picture but no, it's the Gleason's entire 20 year run. You can certainly argued the show became tired and old-fashioned by the late 60s but when Gleason was at the top of his game in the 50s it really was a classic - at least from the reruns that one of the cable stations was running a few years ago and the material you can find on YouTube. And why go after Gleason and ignore Bob Hope whose TV specials continued for decades after they ceased to be funny or interesting (if they were ever that - I watched a few of this 1950s shows on one of the streamers and they were pretty bad. The only thing I've ever found Hope mildly amusing in is some of his Road pictures. 

The video only says it's his anniversary. Is there another announcement somewhere that he's leaving? I see from his LinkedIn that he left Corus, or at least the on air gig, in March.

What's Charlie Rose up to these days?

I've heard of radio stations pranking on April Fool's but here's a case of NT 1010 being pranked

Niagara Falls Mayor @JimDiodati pranks @MooreintheAM on April Fool's Day, saying the city will turn off the iconic waterfall during the eclipse for better viewing enjoyment.

https://omny.fm/shows/newstalk1010/niagara-falls-mayor-jimdiodati-pranks-mooreintheam

RadioActive wrote:

Radiowiz wrote:

Someone forgot to tell 310 Reno. They still say Citynews radio.

According to Broadcast Dialogue, Rogers says "says the updated branding will rollout to other markets in the coming months." So if the Rogers stations in other areas haven't switched yet, it's apparently on the way. 

Do you have a link? I can't seem to find the article on their site. 
 

Radio Kandy demo reel
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/L5Du2kfqgbLQ2VsY/?mibextid=zWBbVw

RadioActive wrote:

I've written about this before, but we have many new members since then. 

Sometime in the early 1980s, when CFTR was still an AM Top 40 powerhouse, things were clicking along fine and I felt lucky to be working at a top rated station. Those were great days and it was probably the best job I ever had.

And then, one afternoon with no notice, around the lunch hour, the jock stopped referring to the station on air as "CFTR," as it had since the first format switch to rock in 1972. Instead, he was saying "TR 68" after each record. 

Everyone in the station stared at each other. WTF was going on? When did this happen and why? Between songs, someone went into the announce booth and asked the guy why he was doing the new ID. "I was told to," he replied, mentioning someone in management had come in and immediately ordered the change. 

And so it became "TR 68." It may not have created a buzz among listeners, but internally, there was a frenzy. It was such a big change and no one knew it was coming. 

It lasted until the P.D. returned from a lunch meeting. I've been told when he heard the new station I.D. on air, he went ballistic. He wanted to know who ordered this change and why he wasn't told. And before you knew it, "TR 68" died a quick death and it was known as CFTR again. It stayed that way until they went to the all news format many years later. 

I never did find out what happened or whether this was being workshopped behind closed doors and someone decided to put it on air. But whatever it was, it didn't last long. If you weren't listening during those bizarre 120 minutes, you heard it. Otherwise, it disappeared into the ether, never to be heard from again.

So RIP "TR 68." We hardly knew ye. Literally. 

Just as well. TR 68 is pretty close to the infamous TRS-80 (Trash 80) Radio Shack computer that was becoming a big thing then - but was also considered a bit downmarket compared to the Commodore PET computer and the Apple 2 so I do

680 NewsRadio Toronto is more descriptive. Someone new to the city would know what "news radio" means where "CityNews" might not be as obvious (could be news about city government, for instance). 

Interesting as well that attempts to co-brand both Global (Global News Radio), and CityNews tv and radio have been abandoned by Corus and Rogers respectively. I guess this means Bell is unlikely to try to rebrand NT 1010 with either CTV News or CP24.

In retrospect, it's pretty obvious that CKO's business plan was flawed. Rather than trying to be network news (a radio CNN though CKO actually predated CNN by three years) they should have focussed on local news, weather, traffic, and scores with only a few, if any, national shows, probably in off-peak hours. Running half a dozen local stations with full staff complements would have been much more expensive than syndicating shows nationally though and they probably would have had to build up to 6 or 7 stations over several years rather than open them all within 1 year - but it's possible CKO would still be around if they had taken a build-local-first approach. 

Back in 1988 CKEY 590 and CKO 99.1 applied to swap frequencies. CKEY had shortsightedly neglected to acquire an FM sister station in the 50s or 60s when frequencies were readily available and had a shrinking audience on AM and CKO found being on FM was a bad fit and that it was cut off from many commuters who might want to tune in an all-news station but couldn't since many cars only had AM.

The CRTC illogicaly rejected the swap and both stations were doomed as a result.

Can you think of other CRTC decisions that in retrospect were monumentally stupid?

Tory is the best mayor Rogers ever had.