Well, well, well, if it isn't #MeToo and the resulting cancel culture all over again. Plain and simple: if you're going to accuse someone, famous or otherwise, of something so heinous, the least you could do is not hide your identity, and do make your statements/allegations under oath. If you make such accusations anonymously, then frankly, you're full of crap.

RadioActive wrote:

It certainly seems many late night shows are now just used for cutting up clips and putting the highlights on YouTube. You no longer have to watch (and sit through the interminable commercials) in order to see the best stuff. 

This 100%, especially in the case of The Tonight Show, which very likely pays YT for prominent placement in every user's "recommended" lists.

As far as I know, NPR and its member stations are fairly neutral, though its critics and haters, including the orange toddler himself, accuse the nation's public broadcasters of being too "left", i.e. anywhere to the left of said critics' far-right positions.

"Yakety Yak" would have been perfect in the Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke riding, where Barry's Bay's John Yakabuski was MPP for at least twenty years. Yakabuski didn't run in the most recent provincial election, but his successor, PC candidate Billy Denault, won the riding.

Dion's "Abraham, Martin & John".

Paul Jeffries wrote:

"The Resurrection Shuffle" - Ashton, Gardner and Dyke

The song that was playing on the radio in my newlywed parents' car, immediately after their summer 1971 wedding ceremony in Woodstock.

RadioActive wrote:

Not since that horribly discordant note that starts "The Lion King" spot have I heard anything that annoying. 

Back for more, courtesy of Canada's own Valerie Poxleitner herself, aka Lights, featuring her late cat Stanley, circa 2020-ish.

RadioAaron wrote:

In Ottawa, Dalhousie is Dal-hoo-zee. Trips up newbies the time.

Much like North Gower ("north gore") near the southern edge of modern-day City of Ottawa territory... or in Renfrew County, if you're looking for Al Capone's hideout, you're headed to Quadeville... but they'll know you're likely not from the area if you say "quaid-ville" and not "quad-ville". And that little dot on the map at Highways 7 and 41, where many motorists will stop for fuel, food, a trip to the washroom or to stretch their legs? Yep, Kaladar... but when the Canadian Pacific Railway ran through the area on the way to Peterborough or Smiths Falls, the railway pronounced it "kal-a-dare". My FIL says it that way, as his dad worked for CPR out of Montreal.

But one great mispronunciation story I remember was in my college years, when fellow Loyalist radio alum Greg "Great White" Hunter (class of '77) dropped by to chat with my class. The long-time Kingston morning jock, a native of the Belleville area, had told us about his early years on CKLC, and how he had mispronounced the name of a major street in the Limestone City, Bagot Street. Thinking it was a French name, he initially said "ba-GO" Street, but was later corrected - "BAG-it" Street.

Probably many instances of newbies in Kingston not saying Cataraqui right too...

RadioActive wrote:

As often happens, it's what you were never supposed to hear that winds up being the most entertaining part of any spot.

Exactly true! Much like the annual blooper reels that many radio and TV stations would put together. Here's one example, from CTV's CJOH Ottawa, circa 1986, hosted by then-assignment editor Brian Goff... among the faces seen are long-time 6pm anchor Max Keeping, 11:30 anchor Leigh Chapple, weatherman J.J. Clarke (who pulls a disappearing act in this reel) and future CFTO reporter Leon Korbee.


 

I do traffic (commercial scheduling) for a pair of Ontario radio stations, and there is definitely one local LPC candidate on the air as I type this, and one CPC candidate that I know of whose ad schedule is about to start. Nothing at the national level from any of the major parties, but Elections Canada has ads currently running on both stations that I work.

During the provincial election, the two stations got ad buys from the area's OPC incumbent, as well as the local OLP and ONDP candidates, and at the "national" level, Elections Ontario.

Here at my home base in eastern Ontario, which has been a blue riding federally and provincially for at least the last 20-25 years, I've only seen one sign so far for the incumbent CPC candidate, while the local LPC candidate has many around town, including one on our neighbour's lawn across the street, and the NDP candidate just recently rolled out a bunch of signs, one of which is outside a house a couple of blocks from us.

And RA, my two stations will give you a good reprieve from the barf-worthy spots that air constantly in the GTA. 

By talking about the ad and mentioning the advertiser by name, you have proved that the ad is doing its job, and you are promoting the advertiser to knows how many more people who have not yet heard the ad or heard of the advertiser or product/service.

If you don't like an ad, don't talk about it.

Speaking of remote cameras, out here in the Ottawa area, CJOH/CTV Ottawa has had a PTZ camera atop the Westin downtown for many years now, now in HD. Until the 2010 fire at the station's Merivale Road studios, CJOH also had a camera at the east end ballpark, usually looking east at the Queensway and the Belfast Road overpass; that shot was used most often for traffic hits during the local inserts on Canada AM.

During the "New RO" era on CHRO, that station often aired live feeds from the handful of MTO COMPASS cameras on the 417, as well as the City of Ottawa cameras, much like how Citytv picked up the MTO feeds and also Toronto's RESCU camera network.

'VR has had a camera up there, nearly 400 feet up, since about 1993; the station's retro photos online show an in-studio event for when the Tower Cam first went live and was sponsored by a local tire dealer. Also recall from the New VR days, when master control would sometimes take the camera to air as filler very early in the morning, with a simulcast of CHUM FM for the audio, before the 6am reroll of the 11pm news; CKVR didn't have a local radio sister since the TV station and CKBB parted ways. Has me wondering if the Tower Cam was ever live on the air during a nasty thunderstorm... would have made for some wild TV with lots of lightning over Kempenfelt Bay.

...and did I hear right that there are thirteen hooves visible, representing channel 13?

In the U.S., legal ID requirements are one of two things the FCC strictly enforces; the other is emergency alerting, i.e. EAS, and the old EBS and, going way back, Conelrad. Torontostan is correct in that Canada's legal ID requirements aren't enforced, though most non-CBC radio stations these days voluntarily do some form of legal ID, usually at or near the TOH... callsign, frequency, city of license, and ownership; more recently some stations have started including Indigenous land acknowledgements in their legal IDs.