RadioActive wrote:

OK, I also have a confession to make. And it's like kicking a puppy. But I never liked Downie's voice and didn't think he was a very good singer. So you're not alone. 

A college classmate of mine, almost a lifelong Kingston resident (born and raised there), also wasn't much of a Downie fan, but liked Rob Baker and I believe knew him personally.

Recalls memories of the late Mike Cleaver's comments here about how much he despised the "limp dick games" and the IOC.

40 y.o. guy here, and covid for me pretty much killed any possibility of returning to watching TV news. Prior to that, corporate horn-tooting (e.g. Vancouver 2010 on CTV/TSN, and Bell Let's Talk) and various events in the U.S. had led me to seriously reduce how much I'd watch news on TV, but covid was the final nail in the coffin.

Nowadays, for local content in my area (Ottawa Valley), I watch the websites of local radio stations and print/digital publishers, including the area's Metroland news site, and the small independent papers the Eganville Leader and, from the Quebec side, The Equity (Shawville). As for my go-to outlets for national and international news, the traditional wire services (e.g. Canadian Press and Associated Press) are two of them, as well as the BBC.

Just stop it with the goddamn politics on this board, please, no matter what side anybody's on. Just stop. Is it not possible to have any discussion about broadcasting here without dragging politics into it?

newsguy1 wrote:

They were shouting "Boo-earns,  Boo-earns." (with apologies to the Simpsons)

"I was saying boo-earns..." 

Binson Echorec wrote:

I can't wait for the outrage of those who spent $1000 for a hotel room to stare at nothing but cloud cover.

I'm now waiting for the petition to appear on change.org to learn who will be blamed for the overcast sky.

I'm already seeing veteran radio people politicizing the eclipse and blaming Trudeau for it.

Speaking of CFTR nostalgia, here's a video aircheck of Bob Callahan working a Commercial Free Sunday in 1988...


 

RadioActive wrote:

The father and son behind this stunt never say what station it is, but in a separate post, the son indicates it's on a frequency of 1460 AM and is 10,000 watts. He also expresses surprise that the meat wasn't all that hot after coming in contact with the metal, despite the shower of sparks and half the thing being blown off.

Oh, and one more thing, and this may be the most important fact of all: the hot dog used was an Oscar Meyer Uncured Beef Frank. So now you know. 

Talking Hot Dog gives new meaning to 'Ham radio'

The brand of hot dog probably rules out Guelph's CJOY as the station in question. 

Many stations in southern Ontario continue to do "Hi-Lo" in one form or another... an example would be the "myFM ATM" that MBC's myFM stations often run once or twice a year.

On a related note, Stingray's Hot 89.9 in Ottawa posted on Facebook this morning that their contests etc. are now open to all Canadians, including Quebec residents. Very often those residents are excluded from various contests and promotions originating elsewhere in Canada, due to provincial laws/regulations involving contests, promotions, games of chance and so on. Guessing that Stingray finally went through all the necessary stuff with the regulatory agency (the RACJ) to allow QCers, esp. those in Gatineau and other places in the 89.9 OTA coverage area, to participate in their stations' contests.

Radiowiz wrote:

Actual call to Rogers:  "Lower my rates or I swear to god I will switch to Fido..."

Uh...okay...go ahead!   
 

Kinda like years ago, when Future Shop customers would threaten to go to Best Buy... or the other way around. 

Not sure how true this was, but years ago I'd heard about an Ottawa radio station doing something similar with their web content, esp. news stories... some way to know when another outlet had lifted material from said station.

We use FRS at the local junior hockey games, for the ice-level crew to relay goal and penalty info to me (the public address announcer and online scorekeeper) in the stands; my wife (the DJ in the gondola, beside the broadcast commentators) listens in, and also communicates with us using her radio.

Geoblocked in Canada.

My wife watched her Chiefs win it all on the CTV feed (CJOH). Not sure if she chose to watch it there or if CBS (WWJ Detroit) was simsubbed here, which it normally isn't on our Cogeco system... Bell is the dominant provider here, primarily satellite, and Cogeco locally is exempt from simsub requirements due to a low enough subscriber count.

Can't really speak for many of the commercials, if any... I didn't pay much attention to them, but a friend who watched OTA via Watertown NY's CBS outlet, WWNY 7, commented on the lack of ads for streaming services and telecom providers.

EDIT: She did watch on CJOH... the box was still on that channel (ch. 701) and not WWJ (ch. 713) when I fired up the TV this morning.

In 2006, while in Kingston visiting family, I was able to check out CFRC's studios at Carruthers Hall. Just inside the station entrance was a display of vintage equipment, and in the two control rooms, lots of gear, and no real automation in sight, just a Mac with iTunes to play recorded content. What impressed me the most was the acoustics in the rooms - no echo/reflections at all!

Campus radio for me was a good stepping stone to commercial radio, first with a Grade 12 co-op placement at Trent Radio in Peterborough, followed by more than a year on Loyalist College's CJLX. The latter was primarily a "teaching station" for the college's radio broadcasting and broadcast journalism students, mostly programmed like a commercial station, and when I was there, was the only station in the area playing any kind of rock format... 'LX ran rock/alternative for the majority of the week, with a maximum of 25% hits, not counting newer Canadian hits.

We in the radio class of '03 had a lot of fun running CJLX in the 2002-2003 academic year, and it was one of my favourite times in the early part of my radio career.