Radiowiz wrote:

Thankfully, Bell sold this station.
Just hang on for a bit. This will all change very soon with new ownership.
 

You're right. It's going to get worse. There's no point in original programming at 7am on a Saturday morning. CKTB probably has fewer than 100 listeners at that time. 

He was senile even then.

This list wouldn't really be used by anyone except to cross-compare services as a whole. Really it just shows how dependant a service like AppleTV is on a show like Ted Lasso, etc. The streamers have way more data about their own viewership than Neilson could ever provide them.

This ranking methodology heavily favours older viewers. If you looked at all ages on all screens, the data would be a lot different. Many children and young adults would be watching on laptops, tablets or smartphones..... not TV sets. 

Walter wrote:

Never understood why the network would 'premier' their top new show immediately after the Super Bowl.  Anybody still awake by the end of a 4 hour-plus game is probably too drunk to bother watching, or remembering, whatever comes on next
 

Because that time slot is, by far, the largest audience any regular entertainment program will get all year. 

Remember that the Bingley family is at least 7 million dollars richer because of childish behaviour by the various board members at CKLN, and their failure to run a largely volunteer campus station. Good for him for creating a successful operation, and I wish him the best in (semi-)retirement. 

RadioActive wrote:

This may be the opposite of my original question in this thread. I just watched CTV News at noon and they had Jessica Smith doing the weather. (Hey, at least they had somebody actually there!)

But during one of her radar maps, she mentioned that there could be more squalls in the Niagara Region, for "those in Buffalo watching the big game."

I'm not a football fan and even I know that happened yesterday! Hey, it's easy to make a mistake, but that one was more than just an error!

You must not be able to rewind, she said, "in towards Niagara and for folks who were out in Buffalo watching the game." - not sure why that's relevant now, but at least she knew when the game was. 
 

Congrats, you're the only person that heard it. 

Here are the requirements. Technically PSIP IDs are not allowed (nor do they include the name of the city) but nobody complains about it. No idea why it is that radio stations insist on keeping this practice alive while their TV counterparts haven't been following the rules for over a decade. CBC Radio also rarely announces their callsigns. The whole practice is dated and serves little purpose when PSIP and RDS exist. 

Cash: "Bell carries French channels that nobody watches" 
Translation: "Bell offers me French channels that I can choose whether or not to watch on this service that I willingly signed up for which also includes all of the channels I wish to watch"

Cash: "I am not in quebec"
Translation: "I am not capable of understanding that other people live in places which is not where I live, and they also may enjoy content that I do not, and vice-versa. Therefore, companies may try to target people that are like me, but also people that are not like me" 

Cash: "having a hundred French channels in Toronto isn't necessary"
Translation: "I do not want these channels, so good thing Bell gives me the option of hiding channels on my guide which I do not wish to see. And the Francophone individuals can also do the same at no cost"

Cash: "I don't know anyone who gets Bell Fibe for the French channels"
Translation: "I assume that nobody else in this country speaks French nor watches French TV because my 5 friends do not" 

Cash: "so much for choice"
Translation: "I am being offered more choice than I had before, on a service I willingly signed up for, and I am still complaining" 

This was an all-timer thread. Thanks for the laugh before bed. 

Radiowiz wrote:

Is that including the Ti Cat games? I thought Ti cat games were helping.
 

0.9 share A25-54 includes it. CFL ain't gonna move the needle lol

paterson1 wrote:

A marriage between CHCH and CKOC could work well.

No it wouldn't. Too costly for too little return. High risk, low reward. Hard to sell a standalone radio station to advertisers, much less a new AM station in a diary market that has no audience as it stands now. 

paterson1 wrote:

Make the station similar to community/regional radio but on AM. 

So you're saying they should operate a for-profit station like a not-for-profit station? And not only that, but do it on a worse band? Sounds like a recipe for failure. 

paterson1 wrote:

Laugh all you want, nobody else is doing this.

Gee.... I wonder why. 

paterson1 wrote:

The local cross promotion between TV and radio is something that other Hamilton stations don't have. 

Not sure what benefit you think this has? CHCH has given up on primetime, what exactly are they to promote? They're the only news option in town, they don't need to promote on radio, and if they wanted to they could buy radio spots for far less than the cost of acquiring and running an AM station that nobody listens to. 

paterson1 wrote:

Because it is 2023 is the exact reason why new ideas should happen.  The current model doesn't work and companies like Bell have been shown not to be the best at running radio stations.  And please, spare us the stock answer of "if it were feasible, it would have been done.."  If Bell knew what was feasible I doubt they would have bought CTV for $2.3 billion in 2003, sell most of it a few years later, and then turn around and buy the network back again.  Nothing like paying for something twice. 

-Says it's 2023 and new ideas are needed
-Brings up an idea straight from the 1950s
-Thinks the same company that dances with bankruptcy every few years should invest in a band that is declining rapidly
-Lambasts a decision made 20 years ago 


I hate to break it to you, but it would be the same people in charge of radio even if these large radio groups weren't

Jody Thornton wrote:

I was thinking it would be 99.9 for Toronto  (they could get some stray CBC Radio One listeners just a wee hair down the dial at 99.1); however I don't think it would be a straight transfer of 1010 to FM.  Perhaps, over a period of time, some Newstalk hosts wouls simulcast on FM or even move to it, while less hours are devoted to CHR on Virgin.  640 did such a thing in the 90s, of course with the intention they were going to be an all news station.  Eventually, you'd have a full-service FMer with talk and lifestyle, plus some music programming.

Just a thought though.  As for 610, could soome of its stronger programming not go on to 102.9?  Very little of CKTB is live any more.

You've hit the nail on the head. Every media executive is currently thinking "whatever barely worked in the 90s will certainly work in 2023" 

SpinningWheel wrote:

They're in 93 million households in the USA.  ESPN is in 26 million.

Not even close. 

TNT - 79.9 million
ESPN - 79.8 million 

No the NHL is not screwed, in fact their current deals are proving to be a very big improvement over their deal with NBC. Look at the NBA, TNT will often out perform ABC in the conference finals. OTA doesn't matter to young people, most won't even know what the difference is. If they're fans of the sport, they'll find it. 

RadioActive wrote:

which not only had a new host, but a new set and a new location - Los Angeles. 

No sir....... Leno actually started across the hallway in NBC Burbank's studio 3 (Carson was in studio 1).