Skywave wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

One pundit compares it the infamous Heidi Bowl from decades ago on NBC, when the network cut away from the final moments of an important football game for a previously scheduled movie - only to have the contest completely turned around at the last minute, and no one saw it. 

The equivalent of the Hockey Night in Canada National News incident that got Dave Hodge fired.

Much as I’ve admired Hodge’s career work, there were those who might have felt it was Hodge who got Hodge fired.
 

RadioActive wrote:

He really only had one big hit on the pop charts - Go Away Little Girl, a #1 Billboard hit in 1963.

“It didn’t attract me as much,” he told the website Classicbands.com. “I grew up in a time period when music was written by Irving Berlin and Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and Sammy Cahn and Julie Stein. Those people, I related to what they were writing because it was much more melodic. It as an intelligent lyric that was written. By and large these people were bright, educated or extremely gifted.”

I’ve always considered myself lucky to have grown up straddling two musical eras: pop standards and what became
’modern pop.’ The first two Steve Lawrence songs that grabbed my attention gave us one from each, and in the same
year — 1959. There’ll Be Some Changes Made and Pretty Blue Eyes. Both are on my iPhone and sprinkled liberally on all the various iterations around the house. Lifelong fan. 
In 2003, Lawrence, in his advancing years, kept on chooglin’. He took the songbook given to him by the Chairman of
the Board and released a superb mail-order album called Steve Lawrence Sings Sinatra - A Musical Tribute To The Man And His Music.
If you ever get a chance and are of a mind to, give it a listen. He was in his 60s then, and hadn’t lost a step.

 

Jacjames wrote:

  He was at the event for the original sign-on.  It is my understanding he became ill and left the broadcast.

Thank you, Jacjames. Was busy composing and missed this. Get better soon,Vic!
 

Haven’t had a chance to catch much of the current Scotties tournament but noticed that I wasn’t hearing
Vic in his usual PM slots today. Hope he’s OK…and still at TSN.

YMCA wrote:

One minute spent on Environment Canada's weather site (or app if you're a youngun that lives on the phone) tells you what's going to happen. 30 seconds to view the forecast for your location, 30 seconds to check the radar.

We’re with you. We believe in God and Environment Canada. Val’s got the app on her phone, I have it on my iPad.
Quick and easy-peasy.
 

A news person’s Newsman. Dedicated. Ultimate Pro. Great sense of humour. Lot of people will miss
him. That’s an even better newsroom in heaven.

RadioActive wrote:

Normally a kicker on NBC Nightly News is about 2 minutes long or less. This one was closer to 6 minutes, but it was terrific. No words, just a lot of music and good video from the greats we said goodbye to this year. They came from the world of entertainment, sports, politics and music. And yes, they included Gordon Lightfoot and Robbie Robertson. 

Very well put together and worth a look here if you're interested. I wondered who the last person pictured would be and in retrospect, it should not have surprised me. 

We usually watch NBC at 6:30. Val got up and as the tribute started, not expecting anything special…went out to the
kitchen, while I kept watching and was blown away. The one thing that stood out was the sheer number of *really*
famous artists and personalities who left us in 2023.
Thanks, RA, for the link for those who missed it.
 

For the life of me, I don’t (as Ivanka was saying the other day) “recall” the reason for the Bobby getup.
Judging by the CHML sign in the window plugging “Michael Marshall” in Stoney Creek, it would have been
early days for me (1962) in Hamilton, when Tom Darling was still trying to decide whether it was going to
be Michael or Mike. It became Mike soon after.

This is a picture that’s been up here in two iterations. First time, believe posted by Don Daynard, was a tight
crop of me only, and then again in the much wider original pic with others in the photo, the one just posted by
RA. In that take, the woman nearest me was a CHML Hostess and the lady who appeared to be playing the
part of the “flapper” was (a guess) employed by A & W. The latter looks like she’s wearing an apron and is
carrying some root beer in some form out to a car.

Interesting, maybe not, there's an even wider shot, probably *thee* original that’s been up at A & W Appleby
Line Burlington for quite some time. A copy from another source? Possibly, from another Dub customer?
At this point, who knows?

Jim hired the original on-air staff and others at Wave Smooth Jazz 94.7 in Hamilton. He loved what he did and the people he did it with.

Also CFGM 1320 Richmond Hill (late ‘80s).

This is the second Friday in a row that Apple+ broadcasts the Jays. It could be my imagination but
they seem to have scooped more than their share this year of the local team’s games. Possibly
because I don’t enjoy the games on Apple. Sportsnet TV does a much better job, in just about every
way I can think of. I’m a fan of the home team, in more ways than one.

First thought that came to mind was the late Tommy Banks of Edmonton. Wonder if the family would have something to add? Major talent.

Not sure if I’ve managed to get this up?
Please click on the link for one of my favourite Tony Bennett songs — Penthouse Seranade.
I used to play this late at night on CHML in the early ‘60s:
Ralph Burns arr/cond

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bGZafIri_Mc&feature=share

There’s a pretty good golf tournament. Genesis Scottish Open started today (Thursday) and runs through the weekend.

Thanks to Ben Zonia on the Michigan board, who mentions this in reference to CKLW’s temporary
transmitter problem years back:

>> While CKLW soon returned to the air, as I recall, it operated with a 10000 watt backup transmitter for at least several weeks on 800. Since CKLW now focuses on just Windsor, rather than the large areas near Detroit and in Michigan and other nearby states like in The Big 8 era, listeners probably didn't notice much reduction where they listened. <<

During my first year at CK, we used to make a monthly midnight move to the recording studio, using
the backup for about three hours while engineering maintained the main transmitter and master
control. I always got a phone call from the Sunday night op at sister-station WRKO saying we were
booming in on reduced power to Boston. Wouldn’t have been surprised if there was at least one local
AM envious of the Big 8’s TWO signals.