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SOWNY » Why Are There So Many Technical Snafus On CTV's Toronto Newscast? » July 2, 2025 4:09 pm

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Do some of the channels carry a simulcast of CTV News Channel during weekday noon or weekends at 6:00 p.m. when there isn't live sports, or do they not provide them with any news at all and just let them tune to another channel or hope they tune into one of Ctv news channel Or CP24 either on the app or smart speaker I don't know if there still Aloud to catch a cable subscriber fee now that you can watch CP24 on the mobile app and you can also stream the audio of the channel on your smart speakers Which is how I listen to their morning show every morning 

SOWNY » Why Are There So Many Technical Snafus On CTV's Toronto Newscast? » July 1, 2025 5:15 pm

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Which  CTV stations Still have weekend even 6:00 p.m. evening news ? I know Toronto does but I forget the other two that were mentioned to still have it ? 

SOWNY » Why Are There So Many Technical Snafus On CTV's Toronto Newscast? » June 29, 2025 7:48 pm

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I think they want the ratings to go down so then they can cut back on their newscast at least on weekends or maybe they just know that there are enough of us sheep That will watch it even when they phone it in 

I think they're not even bothering to make it better 

SOWNY » Canadian Open broadcasting question? » June 8, 2025 4:08 pm

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I recall when the Canadian Open used to have a separate Canadian broadcast, and I even remember the early 1990s, when even the first two rounds were broadcast on TV in Canada. I'm just wondering when all this started to change. If someone could help or shed light on this, it would be greatly appreciated. 

I also believe it used to be on the weekend in the fall 🍁 

SOWNY » RFK Jr. Threatens To Ban All Drug Ads On U.S. TV » May 28, 2025 1:48 pm

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Don't we all just Google it? I even watch TV with my tablet open; that's what Canadian commercials are really asking us to do.II don't think we would care ifs a minute please  If We would really care. The only one I remember in the pre-inte.rnet days was ROGAINE Even thougofhave a full head have hair an,d was a kid back then I do remember I had fun asking the doctor what Rogaine was 

SOWNY » Who Gets Your Vote On Monday Night? What To Expect On TV & Radio » April 29, 2025 8:38 pm

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Aytononline wrote:

Very impressed with how CTV went from a local newscast to a National show in the same studio. (At least, I think it's in the same space.) With no real space between shows.

Actually, you could tell by the way they moved elements of the newscast around that they probably pre-taped the last half earlier because they did their news run down of the top stories around 6:25 When they normally leave when it run It at around 6:40 p.m. So they did use about half an hour to move things around 

SOWNY » Election Fun Time: Who Will Win? Minority or Majority? » April 27, 2025 4:38 pm

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I'm just glad my beloved CBC Radio is safe now that I don't think Peter and the Conservatives will get a majority government and close it down.. However, this writing of the Toronto centre has been the dirtiest election between the local candidates of Evan Solomon, Liberal, and Samantha Green, NDP. 

SOWNY » Broadcast Catches Vladdy's F-Bomb After 1st Homer Of The Year » April 18, 2025 9:20 pm

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Walter wrote:

Gee, guess he speaks English, after all.

Honestly I am glad he is starting to speak for himself in interviews and in public without a translator 
 

SOWNY » What does it take to create A fast channel » January 29, 2025 6:20 pm

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https://www.streamtvinsider.com/video/what-does-it-take-create-and-operate-fast-channel

In Case you were curious a bit more on how you create one of those Digital streaming channels you are now finding on those smart TV digital screens or on your streamers screens I found this an interesting read 

SOWNY » The CW Loses Its Only Real Major Sports Event To Fox » January 17, 2025 6:39 pm

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It is division one It is mostly Atlantic Coast Conference So ACC so Duke Clemson and Syracuse are the main recognizable names and they also have NASCAR Xfinity this season most Saturdays starting in February So the golf package was starting to hold them back 

SOWNY » The CW Loses Its Only Real Major Sports Event To Fox » January 16, 2025 9:01 pm

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CW has added NASCAR on Saturdays and now has NCAA college football and basketball So I think they will do fine without the A third rate golf circuit coverage 

SOWNY » Will The OTA Networks Interrupt Programming For This? » January 6, 2025 8:41 pm

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I was away from my television but what time did CFTO and CBC Toronto TV go back to their regular programming ? 

SOWNY » Did Sauga960's Jack Berkovitz Really Give Out His Cell Number On Air? » December 25, 2024 12:29 pm

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RadioActive wrote:

Yes, he did, and given the sensitivities of recent world events, I think he's crazy. But in scanning the Christmas Day dial, I came across a reroll of his show on Sauga960 and heard him actually give out the number on air. I can't imagine that will end well. 

But I suppose you could surmise no one is listening, so it won't really matter. But that's not what Berkovitz says. I also heard him bragging that the ratings for his show, which runs from 9 AM-noon weekdays on the station, are soaring and that they have an ever-expanding huge audience. I find that hard to imagine, given that I've yet to run into anyone who listens to CKNT or even knows what it is. And he does tend to be the King of Hyperbole. 

That said, I'm not sure how he can make that claim and back it up. Perhaps I should call his cell phone and ask him!

I say at least text him. Hasn't he written on the board in the past 

SOWNY » How CFTR Became CKWX Vancouver For The Night On Christmas Eve » December 25, 2024 12:25 pm

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There was a bad wind storm on the West Coast, and it was expected to stay rough even today, so I'm wondering if they were planning on having one station overnight doing a network thing. Maybe this time, they thought Vancouver was a place to be. I know in the past, when Calgary was having lousy weather, one night I turned on 680 news, and they were doing it from, I believe,  that was during their weekend national experiments

SOWNY » Are Internet Radios Still a Thing? » November 7, 2024 7:44 pm

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That's basically what I use my smart speakers for and I do have a few of my older backup tablets and an old smartphone that I use for doing the same things

SOWNY » On This Day in 1924 Ted Rogers Sr. May Have Saved Radio » August 26, 2024 8:38 pm

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As houses at the time were wired only for lighting purposes, the radios sold had connectors enabling them to be plugged into lightbulb sockets.

When did Homes start getting the conventional power outlets for plugging in their own appliances?

SOWNY » the King's plate » August 23, 2024 8:08 pm

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I saw a little bit disappointed that the Kings plate Horse race was not simulcasted on city TV or even shown in a quick replay during the 5:00 newscast It was only on sports net Luckily I did a catch it but I can't easily DVR the sports channels unless I pre-schedule on like The network channels in which I can go back up to 6 hours my cable company is BEANFIELD Metro connect but I am disappointed that a majority of the people Missed the broadcast and I will keep watching for a replay at least on the Sportsnet website.

SOWNY » Bell's Montreal TV Newsroom & Radio Stations All Flooded Out » August 20, 2024 9:21 pm

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I will have to watch them to see if they're less glitchy than the Toronto CTV news broadcasts have been

SOWNY » July 22 CBS Will Air Bob Newhart Tribute Special » July 25, 2024 7:22 pm

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Is it being repeated anywhere I missed it

 

SOWNY » Is This The Only Cdn. Stn. Still Giving Temperatures In Fahrenheit? » June 10, 2024 4:57 pm

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WBFO Buffalo NPR gives the reading in Celsius for their Ontario listeners From an Ontario weather station in the Niagara region

SOWNY » Exactly 32 Years Ago Today, Tonight Had No Tomorrow » May 22, 2024 4:59 pm

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Did any Canadian stations carry the show?

SOWNY » The Greatest Two Minutes In Sports » May 6, 2024 8:15 pm

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city TV had the NBC simulcast this year all three hours

SOWNY » Last Days Of Top 40/CHR On AM Radio From 1992 » March 9, 2024 2:04 pm

arc23
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When did each Of the AM stations in Toronto drop top 40 music or current music I believe AM640 was the last to have no music programming in any day part But do we have a date for the last bit of CHR music in Toronto on AM?
Also wasn't Tarzan Dan on M640 near the end of their music run ?
 

SOWNY » ASK ME ANYTHING » February 10, 2024 7:01 pm

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Are you gonna do anything Extra when it comes to news at your stations now that there is a vacuum in local news with ctv cutting their local noon newscasts?

SOWNY » Documentary on MuchMusic Comes To Crave On Friday » January 29, 2024 12:25 pm

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Is there any indication on when we'll have a new date for the premier?

SOWNY » For Coronation Street Fans Who Go Back A Long Way » November 3, 2023 6:54 pm

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When did they start broadcasting regular episodes in Canada?

 

SOWNY » LEGACY BROADCAST BANDS WHEN THE LIGHTS GO out? » March 7, 2023 4:07 pm

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https://hackaday.com/2023/03/06/whats-going-to-happen-to-legacy-broadcast-bands-when-the-lights-go-out


WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO LEGACY BROADCAST BANDS WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT? 

So in years to come, what will happen to these bands? We very much doubt they’ll become a free-for-all, as a badly made AM pirate spewing kilowatts of harmonics audible in the gigahertz is not a desirable outcome for anyone. Instead we’re guessing they’ll languish, forgotten by all but a few enthusiasts polishing their vintage Philco tabletop radios. It’s sad, because we could imagine a vibrant future for an AM band in a world where limited power unlicensed microbroadcast transmissions were legal. This is to some extent already the case in some parts of the world, but if that were to become a more general thing with permissible power in the region of a watt or two then we could see large numbers of short-range stations co-existing across the dial.


 

SOWNY » Why They Should Fire Every Local TV Meteorologist in Toronto » January 15, 2023 4:48 pm

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Which stations have actual meteorologists here in the city anyway? Everybody just gave up and started using the weather network and relying on environment Canada. I've noticed lately whenever there's any weather event that would typically just get covered by the weather people environment, Canada has now started putting out special weather statements more and more To give everybody the heads up even when we don't meet actual warning or watch criteria

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