They are, as the audience points out, "idiots and stupid".  They know not WTF they're doing.  Not a clue.  They are merely 'caretakers' and at that...they suck.  Radio and TV, to be done well, requires PASSION.  Passionate about profits and mediocrity doesn't count.  It just fails ... miserably.

Anyone who turf's Bob McCown is a weenie.  Similar decisions also cut into Sports Net's credibility.  That they were stupid enough to WAY overpay for hockey illustrates how 'dinkish' their decision makers were/are.  But I discovered 35 years ago when it comes to upper management in radio/TV that for every good one - there are usually 2 or 3 real turds who just float to the top.  They're totally unaware of how to find, let alone sustain, real entertainment value.  Monkey see and monkey do run rampant and 'dumb' is too often the loudest voice at the decidin' table.  The days of hiring CFL football players to suit up in the NHL in November ended with Gerry James.  Hopefully the days of hiring pencil pushers to make programming decisions for radio and TV stations will follow suit.  Otherwise?  Everybody loses.  (especially the audience)

Save a million dollars today?  Lose 3 million, as a result, tomorrow and again next year and the year after that.  All this because a group of stupid weenies decided to pay about 60-65% more than they should have to provide a limited amount of weekly hockey sometimes doubling up with the game(s), IN ENGLISH, on 2 different channels.  What?  Even I know that THAT is entirely a doltish idea..

Why do mega-talented, intelligent, unique assets have to pay with their professional lives because Dopey was given the keys to the vault?  A tip to non broadcast ownership.  Don't hire house painters to create your masterpiece.  Hire proven artists - artists with a heart.  No heart?  No passion.  No passion.  No art.

It's a business is it?  Coulda fooled everybody.

They all deserve to be there...as do many more.

I worked with some of those guys and several more from The Big 8.  Talented.  Incestuous business.  Only 1 'dink' in the bunch.

I saw it happen.  I didn't participate.  One can easily hear that it's still going on.  In the 21st century it must cost a TON to get some of THAT SHIT on the radio.

mike marshall wrote:

Any good soundtracks in these films? 

Jailhouse Rock (1957)
The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Don't Look Back (1967)
Monterey Pop (1968) 

Well I did say GREAT and ROCK....not good and rock 'n' roll.
 

#1 at 12:30 AM.  That's pretty late in the night/early in the morning.  But hey!!!  If the 'president' lies umpteen 1,000's of times then surely the loyal subjects can chip in with a whopper or 2?

I mean really!!!  Was CKFH really the 2nd greatest radio station in the world?  Probably.

Propaganda?  A 'kiss the ass of the government' outlet?  Is this CRTC approved?  No news is good news?  Shameful if that's what it is.  Surely we're better than to OK a fox-like cesspool to be allowed to control the minds of those incapable of thought or reason.  We're as strong an industry as our weakest link.  THIS is ultra weak and a DEEP hole is being Doug. 

John D wrote:

RA.  When I was a kid and we were vacationing up north I remember CKAR  in Huntsville very well.  Then years later; when the late George Grant bought CKLB in Oshawa, he bought the call letters.  Perfect call letters for the Motor City.  Then; when the station was sold again they went back to the original call letters; prior to CKLB; which was CKDO.  It remains that today.  Huntsville somehow got their old call letters back.  Hence CKAR in Huntsville.

All true John.  The station with the letters isn't the original custodians.  That was the other station in town...located now at 105.5.  I remember rowing all the way across Pen Lake and climbing up the steepest ski-hill located at Hidden Valley in order to watch 2 guys doing a live radio show/cut-in from the top floor of the 3 story tower located at the summit.  I'd have been maybe 10 years of age.  I knew THEN what I was gonna do for a living.

Meanwhile anyone who messes with a transmitter is messing with a federally licensed outlet and should be doing JAIL TIME.  THAT...is terrorism.
 

Redbox5 wrote:

Got a new Grundig yacht boy 420 Radio that picks up a.m., FM, and shortwave. Here are some of fm observations. in Brant County on the top floor of my house with an FM and shortwave antenna both up.
93.3 Jamestown, New York. Currently listening to the Buffalo Bills game on it.
Mix 97.1 Cleveland, Ohio.
Something on 90.5, any ideas?
91.3, something out of the US, any idea?
Every single London station except for free FM.
Actually not picking up most Toronto stations due to Dial overcrowding.

How much for one of those bad boys?  Tried to find one online...Listed NOWHERE!!!  Not at radio dealers...not at Amazon.  Where?  Who?
 

grilled.cheese wrote:

Fake news. 

If we could roll back his wages...it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to roll him back instead.  What an ASS!

I wonder what happened to the CKEY FM license?  Not ever an entity.  I was at EY as an operator in 72-and early '73 before heading up to North Bay to get 'the ball' really rolling.  That was the Keith, Pat, Johnny, Bud and Jim era with the huge newsroom and Ron Morey as the show host fill-in guy.  I operated for Jim...same birthday...and often for Keith.  My good friend Robert Payne was still there when I returned in '85.  Bob Crab too.  Keith left soon thereafter to be replaced by John Rode.  Keith went to The Music of Your  Life at CJCL was it ... by then?

Used to love Al Boliska on CHUM and then 'EY...Duff and then Danny...Big G. and Dave Mickey.  CHUM sounded 'old' to me.  Jay helped to get that moving some.  Donnie Burns   and then Jackson Armstrong really changed that up.  Then along came better might time programming on CKFH...Big G again...and Special K...I recall Tom Fulton and Keith Hampshire being pretty fine and then the guy I followed over to C.H.U.M. FM...John Donabie.  Now THAT was a radio station!!!  'Interconnectivity'.  One thing leads to another... ... ...One Oh four point five in stereo.
For me it began with CHUM and CKEY and the long drives in the 50s when the only radio stations we could get between Toronto and Lucknow used to play songs by really cool sounding people like Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and The Everly Brothers.  My love affair with the idea of radio was forged and cemented.  Thanks to *my* pioneers.  You all taught me a LOT.

Yes...definitely/absolutely.  [as I would any Air Canada flight I could avoid taking.]

Saul wrote:

unclefester wrote:

Is the Catholic church still open?

Maybe it's time to shut down everything and everyone, and I meaning EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE, with the slightest whiff of scandal. Then, someone, please turn the lights off on the way out!

"Slightest whiff of scandal?"  Scandal?  Child abuse isn't "scandal" Saul.  It's one of the worst crimes out there.  Punishable by death as far as I'm concerned.  And when they go to jail... ... ...