I bought a new(ish) iPhone in January and it came with 3 months free of Apple TV, which I could redeem whenever I wanted. I redeemed the offer the last time the Jays were on Apple TV, so I saw that game for free (legally) and will be able to see tonight’s game as well.

RadioActive wrote:

The Star is reporting that there will be no post-debate scrums after this is over. Shame on the Debate Commission for all their decisions on this mess. 

CTV is reporting that this resulted from Ezra Levant getting into a shouting match with another journalist backstage.

RadioActive wrote:

pinto wrote:

Fanshawe is still going.. one of the few left.

Maybe not. 

Fanshawe College suspends some Broadcasting, Journalism offerings

I wonder what this will mean for CIXX-FM. When I lived in London that was a popular station among younger listeners - a rare feat for a college station.

RadioActive wrote:

A few years ago, I wrote the CRTC about this very thing, curious what the rules were. It won't surprise anyone that they never answered me. But I appreciate the update here. 

I wrote them once about 20 years ago out of curiosity on this topic and they referred me to Industry Canada. When I wrote Industry Canada they responded that although the rule existed it was not an operational priority for them to enforce it.

paterson1 wrote:

CHFD Thunder Bay was a CTV affiliate from 1972-2010.  In 2010 after a dispute with CTV over programming agreements, they flipped to Global.

CKPR Thunder Bay (formerly CFPA TV and CFCJ) was a CBC affiliate from 1954 to 2014.  They disaffiliated after CBC put in a rebroadcaster in the area.  CKPR became an affiliate of CTV. 

CBC, CTV and Global don't really have many affiliated stations anymore with private broadcasters.  Most stations are owned by the networks.
 
CBC- 14 Owned & Operated broadcast stations
CTV- 22 O&O
Global- 15 O&O
City TV- 7 O&O 
CTV 2- 7 O&O

With the exception of CBC all above have at least a few affiliated stations in conjunction with private independent broadcasters.

 

Another one in Ontario was in 1988 when CFPL and CKNX Wingham disaffiliated from the CBC and CBC put in the CBLN transmitters covering London, Wingham, and other parts of Southwestern Ontario. CFPL/CKNX went independent, but it was a disaster and they ended up having to sell the stations to Baton Broadcasting only 3 1/2 years later. They disaffiliated at a time CBC still had a strong primetime lineup, and it coincided with the launch of YTV, The Weather Network and various other specialty channels, as well as the expansion of CITY’s signal into the region. It seemed as though they wanted to replicate the success of independents CHCH or 2&7 Calgary, but in a market that was too small to support an independent (especially for CKNX).

I also have wondered what CBC intended for CBLN when it first launched. It had separate “CBLN in Southwestern Ontario” IDs, aired separate ads from CBLT, but rebroadcast CBC Toronto news. It seems as though they may have had bigger plans for the region that never materialized.

andysradio wrote:

Oh there are, all CTV. In Ontario: Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins, Kapuskasing, Pembroke and Sudbury - this one at least should be converted to digital being the parent station in Northern Ontario but that would mean a channel change. That would also then mean a new antenna.
In the Maritimes CTV still has at least two: Florenceville NB and Canning NS

CHBX-TV in Sault Ste. Marie is on Channel 2, which makes it favourable for DXing. I wonder how much it gets picked up by DXers, especially considering a lot of other stations that were on Channel 2 in analog have moved to other physical frequencies (while keeping PSIP channel 2).

RadioActive wrote:

Not only will there be two news anchors and a new high tech set, but they'll even have a nightly visit from a weatherman standing in a virtual reality background - something you rarely see on a nightly network newscast unless there's a big storm in the country. And even then, it's only a short segment.

It appears this will be a regular feature, more like a morning show than a nightly newscast. 

And that's just the start. 

"While nightly newscasts have historically been structured as a series of packaged segments presented by a lead anchor at the desk, CBS Evening News...will put less weight on the talent in the studio and more emphasis on the stories that [anchors John] Dickerson and [Maurice] DuBois explore in live time with correspondents around the world.

 "John and I will debrief our correspondents each night," DuBois, 59, explains. "You’ll get context and insight. It will feel like people you know describing incredible things that they just witnessed. I’m excited to give our viewers nuggets of info that they won’t get anywhere else."

CBS Evening News Returns to N.Y.C. with a Twist: Inside the Making of a New, Dual-Anchor Broadcast

Weather on a network evening newscast is unusual but not unprecedented; I remember CBC had a weather segment on The National for a few years. Claire Martin would do a brief national weather segment at the end of the hour, I think this started in 2006 and went on for 8-10 years.

I’ve never seen this on CTV National News or Global National.

mic'em wrote:

As long as CBC TV is OTA, it has merit for the remote areas it serves. But is the expense worth it for the small numbers involved ? Or is there any area where it even is OTA at this point ? I only watch Son of a Critch, and watched the first episode of St. Pierre . I have my PVR set for the second episode. But, I don't expect it will survive depending on what the next election results are. 

They are only OTA in a handful of select cities nowadays and only cover rural areas close to those cities. They’re not even in London or Sudbury anymore.

haydenmatthews14 wrote:

I wonder if the FM/AM towers might be affected by the wildfires. Also sporting events have been postponed such as the Calgary Flames vs the LA Kings in the NHL are affected and some NBA games are affected as well like the LA Lakers and the Clippers. Also I wonder what will happen to the tapings of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy since this is Ryan Seacrest’s new season of hosting the iconic game show. Also since the Sony Pictures studios are in Burbank close to where the fires are happening. Same thing with The Price is Right/ Let’s Make A Deal since they moved to the new Haven Studios in Glendale which is in the LA area.

Jeopardy and Wheel are taped in Culver City, which is some distance from the fires but are not that far from Santa Monica.

I was actually on the 401 in the London area yesterday and thought of this thread; I saw a plate that included CKNW. Also saw one with CFFB, which is the CBC station in Iqaluit, and CJMX, which is Kiss 105.3 in Sudbury.

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