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6079 Smith W · SOWNY

RadioActive wrote:
The danger of pre-producing early obits, of course, is that things like this are bound to happen.

France Radio "Mistakenly" Publishes Obituaries Of Queen, Pele, Apologizes

Along this vein: a number of years ago Frank Magazine got a hold of and published a list compiled from CBC TV's various canned obits and their relative lengths - the angle of the story being essentially the longer the piece, the higher up the totem pole the individual was. IIRC Her Majesty topped the list at the time, as she likely would as well today.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Radiowiz wrote:
6079 Smith W wrote:
Radiowiz wrote:
People that use the "Where do we stop" excuse are just looking for an excuse to not provide.
People who make hasty generalizations about other people they neither know nor understand tend to come out the other hand with a much narrowed view of the subject at hand.
That doesn't change the fact that your solution is to whine and cry every time there is an issue.

As if on cue, another almost perfect, hyperbolic example of my point.

Radiowiz wrote:
The internet issue is a very serious one and it is not to be treated like another "where does it stop".

All the more reason to focus on debating the issues and not impugning the motives and character of those with whom you disagree.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Radiowiz wrote:
People that use the "Where do we stop" excuse are just looking for an excuse to not provide.

People who make hasty generalizations about other people they neither know nor understand tend to come out the other hand with a much narrowed view of the subject at hand.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Radiowiz wrote:
It stops there because the issue is what applies to what IS hot and cold running water in 2020 compared to what was hot and cold running water in your stuck in the past thinking.

The internet in 2020 is not the internet it was 1989. If you want to go live in 1989 you go right ahead, but I'm living in 2020.

The difficulty in taking a debate about issues and policies, and making it about the participants and their personalities, is compounded when the debate is as relatively anonymous as, for example, one on an online discussion board between virtual strangers.

It gets even harder when, rather than allow others to express their thoughts and motives in their own words, you ascribe a set to them based on your own thoughts on the matter, and then compound that with vapid and meaningless stock insults.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Radiowiz wrote:
Peter the K wrote:
The point I'm making is everyone's needs are different. You can't just assume that everyone needs an Internet connection. Although, personally, I can't imagine life without one, but then again, I know what a bang path is.
Sure, everyone's needs are different, but that doesn't grant an excuse to charge so much money for internet usage in the first place, and it shouldn't force the poor to have such limited access. (in their homes)

The "You're poor so you get this internet-You're rich so you get THAT internet..." behaviour has to stop.

Why? and how?

And why stop there? Why not legislate access to clothing, food, real estate, energy, automobiles, vacations, Leafs tickets.....everything to anyone who demonstrates a need, wrested from those who earned it / made it and handed to those could not / would not / did not. I wonder if that was ever tried anywhere....how did it work out?

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

One day last week a protest of some kind shut down the Bloor Viaduct at evening rush hour. AM640 reported it but also did not identify the group.

I expect that is not so much negligence or ignorance, but rather a policy not to offer free air to the group, whoever they are. Sort of like how live TV sports generally no longer show people who encroach onto the field, disrobed or otherwise.

Don't feed the birds unless you want them to keep coming back.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

RadioActive wrote:
I haven't seen the ones you're talking about, so I can't comment. But they have to be better than the promos they used to run in the 80s. Every single one of them used the exact same breathless dire warning theme:

-The three things you're doing that could endanger your children's future!
-Five ways to be sure your house is safe from a break-in!
-The only sure way to prevent an accident on the highway and what to do if you're in one!
-The three things you have in your kitchen right now that will kill your dog!
-Why your family may not be safe in the middle of the night and what could kill you in the dark unless you fix it!

These types of promos aired almost every day and went on so often, we started making fun of them. And it's my understanding that eventually, so did the newsroom employees at City because they were so hysterically over-the-top.

Anyone else remember this from one of the Buffalo stations back in the day:

"It's eleven o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

RadioAaron wrote:
6079 Smith W wrote:
Muffaraw Joe wrote:
What is your take big yella?

Unfortunately for MLB, they elected to followed the NBA's disastrous example and visibly embrace a very divisive, controversial and much-despised national movement seeking to destroy the fabric of the country, while turning their backs on country itself. The predictable result: the country responded by tuning them out. Elementary, my dear Joe.
Hilarious! You should apply to The Onion.

Or Gallup:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/319256/farming-rises-sports-tumbles-industry-ratings.aspx

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Muffaraw Joe wrote:
What is your take big yella?

Unfortunately for MLB, they elected to followed the NBA's disastrous example and visibly embrace a very divisive, controversial and much-despised national movement seeking to destroy the fabric of the country, while turning their backs on country itself. The predictable result: the country responded by tuning them out. Elementary, my dear Joe.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

The CBC does itself no favours whatsoever by providing a consistently extremely biased editorial slant to its news and current events coverage, across all formats, networks, platforms, languages and geographic locations nationwide.

I expect a great deal of the criticism (and critics) of the service are rooted in that downright laughable one-sidedness. It makes the "national broadcaster" argument very difficult to make when the entire oeuvre is directed at a distinct political segment of the country, to the almost complete ignorance of the rest.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

RadioActive wrote:
The warnings made for some surreal moments at times. One aired just before the 4 PM news on CFRB. As soon as it finished, the regular programming cut back in, only to have David McKee repeat the exact same thing. About two minutes later, the same alert re-aired, interrupting the newscast. When it returned, they happened to be heading straight into the weather, complete with stinger, where the same information aired for a fourth time in less than five minutes!

I was listening to AM 640 and noticed a very similar occurrence, except in their case, the second interruption actually pre-empted everything the GNR Newsroom was saying about the tornado warning - all while the robot voice was actually saying "for further information, follow local broadcasts". Good advice, maybe they should take it.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

RadioActive wrote:
The last hour, from 1-2, will be “Listen For A Change,” hosted by the ever-present Jim Richards. The description doesn’t exactly make me want to tune in, either. It “provides real-time expert support for listeners struggling with mental health issues.” Again, the kind of self-improvement drivel that instantly makes me flee elsewhere, although I can see why they’re doing it during the pandemic and if it helps people, that's a bonus.

I caught a few minutes of the Jim Richards piece this afternoon including this amusing bit: Jim closed with a caller and then noted, "we are getting a lot of calls from men, so here we go we have a woman, this is Joan (or another name I forget) calling: Joan, you are on the air. Joan: "Hi Jim, so my husband...."

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Holliday wrote:
“Zero evidence.”
I used to engage in arguments with members of the Trump cult, but have come to realize it’s futile, as any good argument has to be based on a common set of facts. Trumpers don’t believe in facts, especially if they contradict what Fox or Dear Leader would have them believe.

If your point is to provide a textbook example of bigotry, then you have done it perfectly with your own example.

You, sir, are a bigot, who obstinately or unreasonably attaches to a belief, opinion, or faction; in particular, prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

Only you can know why you insist on demeaning the lives, motivations and integrity of hundreds of millions of people you have never met and for the most part will never meet and know, based presumably on your perception of how others ought to think and why on earth they have not evolved to the point of thinking like you.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Holliday wrote:
If you support Trump at this point you are definitely racist at the very least. No grey area.

What a ridiculous thing to say about hundreds of millions of people, with zero evidence.

On the other hand, what a perfect illustration of my point about Trump Derangement Syndrome - it can take what I presume to be an otherwise rational-thinking human being and cause them to make patently ridiculous assertions completely devoid of sense and logic, based purely on hate and other base emotions.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Hammy wrote:
AM talk show panelist Michael Taube wrote a column for the Washington Post that is pretty embarrassing for most Canadians. Americans aren’t buying it either if you read the comments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/22/why-canadians-should-root-another-trump-term/

Trump Derangement Syndrome is the deadliest virus we have seen in our lifetimes. It gets inside the heads of even the brightest among us, blinding them from otherwise sensible speech, thought and words such as the well-written article cited above and its cogent points about the chosen material.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Johnny B wrote:
Limbaugh is a hypocritical, conspiracy baiting, bottom feeder...but agreed, you cannot argue his success with snowflake, butt hurt, American, white, right wingers...but no one deserves this...I wouldn't wish that on my own worst enemy...fuck cancer...it's pure hell...

What a shameful and disgusting expression of so-called sympathy.

Try again, this time without the gratuitous and unsubstantiated attacks on the man and the tens of millions of listeners whom you could not possibly know and who are equally undeserving of your disgusting, prejudicial, indulgent, ad hominem attacks.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

I just heard for the first time an ambulance-chasing spot for Cellino law, complete with a new Cellino-only jingle, and voicing from Ross Cellino himself, on WHAM-1180 Rochester.

Given that it has only been a couple of weeks since Stephen Barnes died piloting his plane, this had to have been in the works before that unfortunate event.

Incidentally, Cellino evidently did not get the septuple-eight phone number in the divorce - his number is 888-2020. Not sure if the Barnes firm got to keep 888-8888.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

LongTimeLurker wrote:
I must shed my Lurker guise for this one. When you look up doofus in the dictionary, you'll find Warmington's picture, complete with goofy hat. His ramblings are not those of someone with a working brain. That has more to do with why he can't get on a real radio station.

Do us a favour Lurker and put the cloak back on until you can come back with something beyond vague and unsubstantiated ad hominem attacks.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

torontostan wrote:
I think the real controversy is that Trump backed out of the debate simulcast on all US networks, so Biden's team figured they might as well do another town hall with a broadcaster they haven't done one with yet. Then Trump turns around and does the same thing, even though he was the one who backed out of the debate. They will both cut into each others ratings, and one could argue that people will be less informed than if they both participated in a debate.
NBC picking a different time is the least they could've done, it's less about scheduling it at the same time as ABC's, and more about why any broadcaster should reward someone for refusing to debate.
NBC deserves the heat.

Correction: Trump did not back out of the debate. The debate commission, after previously using "it is too late to change anything" as an explanation for refusing to change any of the parameters, unilaterally changed the parameters of the debate and declared it would be held "virtually". That is called moving the goalposts during the game. Trump made it perfectly clear that he was prepared to hold the debate as originally conceived. So effectively, the debate was cancelled, and an alternative was developed and offered without consultation of the participants, and this offer was declined.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Chess For Girls. If you have not seen this one you really owe it to yourself to watch it.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Chrisphen wrote:
6079 Smith W wrote:
Do not confuse "non-partisan" with "centrist".

RepresentUs is a uniquely left-wing organization which seeks to promote left-wing causes and views, with a strategic focus on nominal non-partisanship as a means to better accomplish those goals.
Why must you sully these waters with your politicisation?

Not me my friend. The sullying was done by the OP. Just the facts here.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Retaw wrote:
It is weird they'd go with Un over Jinping, especially given the recent TikTok drama. Of course, seeing that there's Hollywood involvement makes me think they wouldn't want to upset the CCP.

And right there, one sentence later, you figured it out.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

RadioActive wrote:
I don't like getting political here, as I often say, but these are just incredible - and they're non-partisan. Neither of the two major American parties are even mentioned. Instead, it's a plea for more tolerance and for the U.S. to stop tearing itself apart. They only took 10 days to make. And they were supposed to run on various American cable news stations but they refused to air them.

When you see them, you may well understand why.

Deepfakes are here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom

Do not confuse "non-partisan" with "centrist".

RepresentUs is a uniquely left-wing organization which seeks to promote left-wing causes and views, with a strategic focus on nominal non-partisanship as a means to better accomplish those goals.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Insightful commentary about the incident from an aviation buff with radar and ATC audio:
https://youtu.be/WMkMCG4QMyA

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

RadioActive wrote:
He's come a long way from MuchMusic. And despite his current employer, he demanded an answer to a question that's been making headlines all week. (I post this with some trepidation that we're going to get political here again, but it's tough to be on the side of white supremacists and J.D. is a hometown guy that I know personally. This a pretty brave thing to do when you work for Fox News.)

Fox News’ John Roberts Expresses Anger After Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Refuses To Directly Denounce White Supremacy

Next time you see your friend John you can tell him he is a disgrace to his profession.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

overheard John Moore this morning on 1010 (in a very affected animated manner):

"Plenty of sunshine today - not sure why I have to say that in the FM voice"

Do DJs affect a more frivolous tone on FM?

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Radio111 wrote:
Have any ratings on either side of the border been published for yesterday’s games? All I have found is the Bears are down in Chicago TV from last year, but up from last year’s finale.

Ratings down 28% from last year
https://deadline.com/2020/09/rams-nfl-sunday-night-football-ratings-down-cowboys-nbc-60-minutes-1234576202/

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Prod Guy wrote:
So you'd rather that they continue to alienate 70 percent of their workforce? That won't work anymore.

Not sure why you want to change the subject by putting words into my mouth as to what I would rather, which matters very little. I was referring to what is in the league's own interests.
Opening night ratings were down 16%.

As of now, the viewership results for the game — in front of 17,000 socially distanced fans at KC’s Arrowhead Stadium — is looking like a 10-year low for the NFL and NBC.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Star Ray is a 100% reliable signal for me with a rooftop UHF antenna in Cabbagetown. My wife teases me when she catches me watching it for old streetcar videos.

6079 Smith W · SOWNY

Muffaraw Joe wrote:
My question is if you are watching sports, are you happy with what you're seeing? Is the lack of fans at the games impeding your excitement and the fact that the playoffs are on in August, September and October, a bit of a mind "F--k". To me it is a bit off kilter watching hockey in a bubble, with no fans during the summer...

Do you care as much about sports now as well or does the issues of the world we live in these days take precedence?

The NFL has shot itself in the foot with its incredulous embrace of the marxist BLM movement, alienating probably 40-50% of their fan base. The damage will be real and permanent. I expect they will use the pandemic as an excuse to explain their abysmal ratings when the numbers come out. No one will buy it.