"News"

Syrett gives a platform to a lot of dangerous far right personalities, even white nationalists, which is surprising given his background.

newsguy1 wrote:

These people are not funny, they are revolting.
We need people to aggressively debunk them since it seems little can be done to stop them legally.
I have noticed that in the U-S law enforcement is finally catching up to them for a change.
Recently eight people who call themselves first amendment auditors were arrested and face a slew of charges in California for using their U-S first amendment to harass and terrorize public employees police and even private citizens all because they get money from putting their scam videos on Youtube.
Likewise so-called "sovereign citizens " in the U-S are getting tougher treatment for peddling their weird conspiracies and beliefs..
The weirdness is even travelling into Canada where things like the Ottawa truck convoy was fuelled by far right wing and white supremacy nutcases.
when Convoy organizer Tamara Leach had her bail hearing in Ottawa a year or so ago her husband from Alberta testified that she was only trying to protect our "first amendment rights!!!"
The judge threw her hands up in frustration.




 

Ben Mulroney makes a statement outside his area of expertise (what the Kardashians are up to, who wore what on the red carpet), and has been trending on Twitter all day. Many accusing him of being fascist and racist.

RadioActive wrote:

To be honest, he intimated more than came out and directly said anything in the small portion of his show that I heard. And the implied conclusion was that the "elites" and the "billionaires" don't want to share paradise. He definitely did use the sentence, "they want it all to themselves." 

And it wasn't really hate. It was just nonsensical, completely unprovable garbage. I'm not sure if that's against the rules. But it sure doesn't help his reputation or the station's very much. (I suppose that's why they run a disclaimer at the top of every hour of his show noting the following opinions aren't those of Sauga960.)

Some of his guests are well travelled in white nationalist circles. 

There's smug blowhards like Patrone and Carrasco, but the worst is Richard Serrit. All the same phony "experts" plus well known white nationalists.

I believe he was told to go, but the story seems sketchy. Implausible.

I don’t know what you call it, but it should have .8% alcohol to reflect their 25-54 numbers.

I can't imagine the ratings are very hot. It's just a boring show.

Corus’ legendary innovation strikes again. Normally it’s the victims who get a big payout.

I’m Agaraphobic.

Going to be some Corus execs having an anxious long weekend in Muskoka.

1050 PD adds 1010 to his duties and hires 1050 personality. Not the most out of the box hire.

RadioActive wrote:

Forget Agar, Towhey, Oakley and the rest. Despite what some here think, they're fairly mainstream. 

If you really want to hear extreme right-wing radio in Canada, you'll have to tune in Sauga960 between 1 and 3 PM weekdays. Marc Patrone is a huge booster of Donald Trump, insists the last U.S. presidential election was "stolen" and thinks it was wrong to disperse the "freedom fighters" in Ottawa. He also brings on guests like Randy Hillier and others who are, to be charitable, somewhat beyond the fringe. 

Have you listened 4-6?

“CBC Music is getting it's best ratings ever.  In Vancouver their hybrid AAA format has a 5.2 share.  Halifax 5.3, Ottawa 5.6, Saskatoon 6.8, Regina 4.3, Calgary 3.8, Toronto 2.5, Montreal 3.7.  So they are doing not too bad and the overall trend is up. “

Those are 12+ numbers. It’s mostly a bottom feeder in major markets. It had potential, but has been mismanaged for years. The first mistake was only going half Triple-A. One of the biggest programming tenets for music radio is “be consistent.” You should tune in any time of day and hear similar styles of music. They also kept on the programmer whose only background was classical music. No idea how to program a popular music station. One of his big moves was to hire a morning guy who had never had a radio show before, then an afternoon host who also hadn’t had a show before, but at least had some industry credo - if not host skills. The other thing that works against it, is that it’s not live. Because they stagger the specific shows across the country, everything is recorded. No live interaction with a national audience. Probably partially because the way the day parts are so radically different.
The original programmer is gone, and after a huge search, they hired the guy who created the Polaris prize, a guy who has never worked in radio.

Hope Mike recovers quickly and his hospital visit is a little smoother than last time.

https://www.canadalandshow.com/global-investigates-mike-stafford-tweets/