Shorty Wave wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

There will be news on New Year's Eve - but not on all the locals. Both CBC and City TV have special NYE shows. In City's case, it's the annual Dick Clark show from Times Square (and ABC.) Long gone are the days when the station would take over Nathan Phillips Square for a huge and well watched local show. The Clark special runs until after 2:30 AM.

 
Rogers got rid of the Citytv NYE show shortly after they took over the channel, they really tried to erase all of that stations history, and did so. An old friend of mine asked me before Christmas if Citytv was still “a thing”, I wasn’t sure how to answer! Yeah, I guess it’s still “a thing”, of sorts.

I remember them still doing it in 2008, the first year after Rogers took over. The following year was during the Great Recession, when stations left, right and centre were cutting all they could.

unclefester wrote:

MJ Vancouver wrote:

unclefester wrote:

Some familiar faces in that clip including Ted Kostecki, Jack Burghardt, John McDonald, Frank Kovacs & the elusive Bill Hutchings          

I think I spotted George Clark briefly as well.

 

I didn't notice Mr. Clark 

There is a gentleman typing at the 1:15 -1:18 mark in the video. I believe that is Darrell MacInnis. And at 1:37-1:38 we get a brief closeup on the copy he is working on. The story is about Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assasination.









 

It’s the man in the middle at 0:50 that I thought might be George Clark - but I could be wrong too.

unclefester wrote:

Some familiar faces in that clip including Ted Kostecki, Jack Burghardt, John McDonald, Frank Kovacs & the elusive Bill Hutchings          

I think I spotted George Clark briefly as well.

Interesting seeing Fahrenheit on the weather map. It wasn’t long before Canada switched to metric.

Retrontario wrote:

Shorty Wave wrote:

Cheese2RF wrote:

damn my mom had so much cityline stuff i just tossed out a bunch of books! i do have some episodes on VHS tho

 
I would look into the VHS tapes, some of that stuff goes on eBay.

Or, could be donated to Retrontario where we can digitize them and share them online!

He’s got one with Dini Petty from 1988 that’s premiering on YouTube this evening in fact.

BowmanvilleBob wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

I am starting to wonder if any OTA networks, including the big four in the US are going to survive over the next 4-7 years.  All are likely losing tons of cash and this can't continue.  Other than football and maybe a few other sports CBS,ABC,NBC and FOX are not drawing many viewers. This applies to Global, CTV, City and CBC as well. 

It is even a stretch to call any of the popular scripted programs a hit show.  A program like Tracker only gets about 5-6 million live viewers on a good night, add in PVR play and streaming over one month and you maybe have 10-11 million, which isn't much and little value to advertisers.

Oddly enough, if CBC TV survives it could become a more vital service than it is now.  But with Canada's poor financial situation, and huge yearly budget spends on the military coming soon, no matter who is in office, CBC/Radio Canada's future doesn't look very secure.  
    

One of the things that CBC is doing to help it's own case is establishing news bureaus in smaller, underserved areas when local newspapers/radio have been downsized or consolidated. This is not only part of the Corp's long-stated strategic mandate, but I believe it will make it more difficult for any future government to cut back on funding, since these new bureaus will, in many places, be one of the only sources of local news for many communities. 
 

I think local news is often overlooked when people talk about the CBC. People in large cities like Toronto or Vancouver can easily forget that there are far more limited media choices in smaller markets. As an example, Prince Edward Island has a CBC TV station that is one of the very few media outlets in that province. CBC’s Compass newscast has long enjoyed high ratings. CTV serves that province with its regional Atlantic newscast, and Global serves PEI with a New Brunswick focused newscast.

There’s also the matter of CBC North, which is the only English-langu

BeatleTeunis wrote:

cash wrote:

I still say there is no money in podcasting. 

Tell that to Humble & Fred.

Toronto Mike also seems to make a go of his podcast. Palma Pasta has been sponsoring him for years.

DX wrote:

ED1 wrote:

Global is now promoting/bragging that Global National is "Canada's #1 National Newscast".

Take that for what it's worth. 

I've noticed that too. Wonder if they are combining the viewership for the 6:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. editions?
 

Probably also including viewership on YouTube.

RadioActive wrote:

Cuts out west, too, with one host who had been on air there for 27 years.

Longtime Calgary radio host Rob Breakenridge cut by Corus

There’s also a longtime weatherman at Global Calgary, Paul Dunphy who is stepping down, he’s been at 2&7 since 1985. Not sure if it’s related or if he just decided to retire.

In the CNE footage is the then-brand new Canadian flag, which was introduced just six months earlier at that point.

I’d like to know how many CBS affiliates pre-empted the early coverage, thereby harming CBS’s ratings. WIVB was mentioned here as not carrying CBS coverage until 8:00, and KIRO Seattle didn’t join CBS until 8:00 Pacific Time, or 11:00 Eastern. They aired local news from 5-8 instead.

Was it just the two stations or was this more widespread among the CBS affiliates?

I’ve noticed the Sportsnet feed includes Canadian Tire ads behind home plate some of the time. Of course, it’s a green screen and there’s no Canadian Tire ad physically in Yankee Stadium; different ad shows in that spot on FOX.

Binson Echorec wrote:

Jody Thornton wrote:

The Sunwing "Flynancial" advisor spot is running on 680, but I've also heard the adbove two (Intended to correct the spelling of "above" just prior to this, and then I thought, "Wait, there's a pun lurking in there somewhere  ).  I actually like the sound of the voice artists in these.  I wonder who they?  But the spots themselves are nauseating.

On TV, the Sunwing Flynancial advisor is played by the same woman who was half of the hipster couple in the Leon's spots from a couple years back: "Lay-onze". I imagine she would voice the radio spots as well, assuming they actually recorded radio spots and didn't just rip the tv audio.

She has appeared in quite a few commercials. She’s also in the two Schneider’s Hot Dog commercials from this past summer alongside Blue Jays announcer Buck Martinez. Earlier she was in a Downy commercial that aired both in Canada and the US.

cash wrote:

So, tonight's Leafs game won't be on Sportsnet or TSN. Some people won't be happy. 

I remember the days when some Leafs games weren’t on either of those channels or CBC - they were on the premium Leafs TV. That cost extra but sports bars carried it so I’d go out to watch those games.

Being on a Sunday this has to have been Celebrity Wheel of Fortune too.

https://www.kingstonist.com/news/a-community-force-remembering-the-legacy-of-veteran-kingston-journalist-floyd-patterson/

Floyd Patterson was a CKWS radio newsman and later news director at CKWS-TV. This article was written by recently laid off anchor Bill Hutchins.