NOTL-Wally wrote:

   Is this what local radio has become?

Are they married or simply cohabiting?     It is 2020 after all.    At what are you suggesting?

K.K.
 

Charlie wrote:

   I listen to Oakley.

His sidekick Lou Schizas was a hoot
 

As SOWNY contributors have generally agreed, from time to time, that there seem to be too many radio broadcasters in some markets and applications that don't make any fiscal sense in others, the fact that some are shaky six-months into the pandemic should not come as a surprise

One 3-hour segment of his Saturday/Sunday program seems to contain more commercials than one would hear on FM 88.5 the Jewel on a typical week day (other than perhaps morning drive, although I'm not sure even that is accurate).    Question -- is this a brokered program and if so is identical material including commercials running across the "network" (if that's what it is)?     

K.K.

 

RadioActive wrote:

    it might be worth checking out 93.7 in early September to see if you hear anything

On southern Georgian Bay and beyond, FM 93.7 is Bayshore's "Country 93" out of Owen Sound.    Excellent country gold program Sundays 7 - 9:00 a.m. (followed conveniently by Roger Ashby on FM 88.5)

K.K.
         
 

RadioAaron wrote:

   For what amounts to two placeholder stations, a re-brand isn't worth it.

In the 1950s, the Rexall drug store chain, when closing a retail pharmacy in favor of a Rexall start-up nearby, would keep the lease on the old store for a few years and operate it as something other than a pharmacy.    The idea was to keep it out of the hands of a pharmacist who might want to run it in competition with Rexall's fresh, new store

Could that be what's happened in London with 1410 and in Hamilton with 820?     Change it to something with no possibility of success, to blow away faithful listeners who might otherwise be attracted to new ownership

BCE ain't stoopid

K.K.
 

Since J. Oakley returned to his mic a week ago, Corus Entertainment shares have gone up EVERY day, currently trading at $3.10.     Coincidence?

What is it about Steve Paikin's The Agenda that Sowny contributors (over decades) evidently have no respect?    I had thought it might be because TVO is taxpayer-supported, like the hated CBC, but E. Yost groupies' posts here frequently fly in the face of that 

As announced in an earlier thread today (Aug 14) there is hope beyond Hope (BC joke).    Y-a-a-a-y for the underdog.

K.K.

RadioActive wrote:

   this isn't the forum for it. And at some point, we should move on.   

Agreed, although when considered along side recent threads about Sumner Redstone's death, Bruce Morrow's resurrection and Elliotte Freidman's hair style, its relevancy begins to become, well, relevant


K.K.
 

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else . . . "

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous

RadioActive wrote:

     this isn't really the type of song they normally would have played in that era   

Counterpoints:

 - CHUM had launched FM broadcasts in 1963; it played rock 'n roll, particularly over-nite, while the AM outlet stayed more of a pop station, to the best of my recollection

 - AM 1050 charted not 1, not 2 but 3 versions of the Children's Marching Song in 1959 including one by that jolly old rocker Mitch Miller

 - too bad Bob Laine is no longer with us; he frequently provided insight when topics like this arose (when he wasn't in Florida)

K.K.

  
 

Interesting historical photos there, including the one of children marching up Bay St. (one visible minority as near as I can see), also the shot of Judy LaMarsh presenting Gimby with an award, probably post-1967 as Judy had her hands full in Centennial year

Bobby Gimby wrote Ca-na-da @ approx this time of year in '66.    The Young Canada Singers recorded it and took it to no. 4 on CHUM the following spring.     Anyone know if the Young Canada Singers stayed together or if they disbanded and if so, did any members gravitate to broadcasting or musical careers?   

Good to see they have the sense to hold it 'til after R. Ashby's Moldy Oldies sign off on Sunday