And don’t forget us becoming the 51st state, like you said RA, it’s not over yet!

dieter wrote:

As a regular trivia show listener, and frequent prize winner, I'm glad all you geniuses won't stoop low enough to call in and try your luck. The free meals, shopping and gas cards and show tickets are nice once in awhile. And hearing the really stupid answers or non-answers can be great fun. To each their own. 
   But you're right about many callers to that show, and pretty much all other radio shows, asking the host how they are. Really tiresome. I also resisted giving Richard Crouse a cold remedy.

 
I’m with you dieter, I like winning stuff too, and I find the show entertaining. I find people who knock things generally speaking are envious of those who enjoy it, real wallys!

The Dundas Square building is a terrible building to work in, especially as a broadcaster. Rogers only wanted it as a showpiece in downtown Toronto and those execs are long gone. Think about it, you have a fleet of news trucks, but nowhere to park them, ever. Reporters had to get dropped and run in while the camera person looked for parking, pathetic.

RadioActive wrote:

I turned on AM640 on Sunday just before the Roy Green Show and was surprised to hear PD Mike Bendixen doing one of their infomercials. It's been a long time since I heard him on the air. 

What really made me take notice, though, was the extro to the show. It was called "Ask The Experts." If I'm not mistaken, isn't the same name CFRB uses for their paid commercials with Iain Grant on Sunday afternoons? Maybe because it's a paid show it doesn't mater. 

But I find it odd that both competitors have the exact same title on the exact same day peddling different services. 

 
I caught the top of Bendixen’s “Ask the Experts” as well Sunday. Speaking of who owns the title “Ask the Experts”, Liz West hosts an infomercial Saturdays on AM740 called “The Experts”, however, when it first went to air a few months ago, it was also called “Ask the Experts”, I guess 1010 contacted them!

Cannot stand the white stuff. In keeping with RadioActive’s post, “Yes it’s pretty, pretty annoying”. The only good thing about snow is that it’s gone by Spring, usually. Now I ‘m going out to shovel, dang!

mic'em wrote:

I have been stocking my PVR with movies to get me through. CBC just aired ' A Christmas Story " last night , that will be my first watch Christmas Day, a kinda sorta tradition for me. I can never see little Ralphie almost shoot his eye out enough times. 

 
Hey mic’em, Hollywood Suite is running their Christmas free preview at the moment and have some decent movies to select from, my PVR has been working overtime! Check them out, they’re commercial-free to boot, I’m even thinking of subscribing.

Cheese2RF wrote:

Retrontario wrote:

Shorty Wave wrote:

 
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!

i follow you on insta, ill DM you later when i dig them out tonight
 

 
There is a Santa! Good on both of you!

Radiowiz wrote:

Here's a good read regarding HGTV:  https://www.wherecaniwatch.ca/hgtv-canada-2025-home-network-corus-rogers/

 
Very informative Radiowiz, thanks for posting. It looks like Corus gets to keep their original HGTV programs/personalities except for the Scott Brothers, which is good for Corus. I also see under Rogers, HGTV will be running mostly American productions. Wouldn’t CanCon apply still, regardless who airs the channel?  Odd.

Walter wrote:

Shorty Wave wrote:

Walter wrote:

The Sunday morning Trivia Show is unlistenable.  An endless parade of morons desperate for a 25 dollar Tim's card.

 
Really? This moron won a prize package worth over $600 dollars, and I don’t do Tim’s BTW, call that coffee?? Merry Christmas!

Truly a Christmas miracle! 
 

 
Actually Walter, it was more of a Boxing Day miracle as part of the prize were tickets to see the Marlies at the ScotiaBank centre. I took my son and a couple of his pals, all but one came from single parent families. None had ever been to the ScotiaBank centre or a pro hockey game of any type, so that was a good prize pack not only for me! The seats were amazing and the lads had a blast!

In Phase wrote:

The "shot box" was on the third floor at 99 Queen.  The same small (very small) studio where John Majhor did his "Toronto Rocks" show.  The VTR's on each side were fake, with slots cut in them so he could insert the video tapes.



 

 
Love the “chum” shirt Majhor is wearing, on-air branding at its best!

Welcome Scarboroughbluffs.I think you’ll find this board interesting and informative, there’s a lot of experience here, and opinions, so there’s always plenty to digest. Have fun!

RadioActive wrote:

Yes, I'm sure many of us found that out the hard way!

 
Especially in the broadcast industry, I should have studied accounting….

RadioActive wrote:

The Waters family represented among the last of the truly great radio owners, who cared as much about the quality of what went on the air as the amount of money coming through the door. We will not see their like again. 

It took a few months after the Rogers takeover but the job losses came fairly quickly, as always seems to happen whenever Big Red takes over anything. And for better or worse, City TV's news was never the same after that, with the quirky content it used to carry and the original formatics that made it so unique gone forever. 

Today, that newsroom is a shadow of its former self, all of which, in my mind, can be traced back to the death of Allan Waters and the company he loved so much going to someone else who cared more about profits than presentation. 

 
I was working for Citytv when Rogers took over and started swinging their axe. It was brutal and it became fairly obvious to us that Rogers didn’t quite “get” TV, even though they had OMNI. They trashed the newsroom for sure RA, it never recovered, losing or laying off their true talent, in fact, they let Pam Seatle go and realized they were now short staffed, and hired her back, talk about amateurs. They took over a fairly positive work force and made it basically crap, I started to hate going in, like many, but it was a job in a dying industry.

Allan Waters, on the other hand, would go around the station, often with his wife, and wish all the staff a Merry Christmas/happy holidays, big difference in management styles, class vs. crass.

g121 wrote:

So 1010 is just playing Trafford's "On the Ledge" podcasts from Youtube?
https://www.youtube.com/@davetraffordpodcasts/videos

 
Quite possibly.

RA, it was less than a few years ago that AM740 was an all female crew as Sam Houston was there until this past August. She was replaced by their producer Andy Wilson, who was bucking to be on air for quite some time!