Back in June 2014, Sportsnet aired "What If? The Unlikely Story of Toronto's Baseball Giants"  It does have an entry on IMDB. It was produced by Bob McCown's Fadoo Productions. There are trailers online, but I don't think the full show is available online.

I don't want to jinx it, but I probably will... I haven't heard any Spence commercials on NT1010 or GNR640 for a few days now.  Maybe they are cooking up a bunch of more awful ones.

Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I guess the live weekend morning radio experiment is over after months of having guest hosts (mostly Ben Mulroney).

640 is now airing "Toronto Today Weekend" with Grey Brady, and according to its web site, they will rerun John Oakley between 9 & 10 AM.  It will be reruns of Kelly Cutrara between 8 & 10 AM on Sunday.

 

Deb Hutton is in for Jerry Agar.  I guess it's time to go grocery shopping.
 

Not in radio, but just an office worker.  I was in the office, on the 9th floor of a downtown Toronto building.  Didn't even grab my laptop thinking it was a temporary thing and left the office.  I did, however, bring a cassette/radio walkman-type device I had in my drawer, grabbed two AAA batteries from reception and walked to the ground floor.  Waited around the base of the building like a regular fire drill, didn't get any updates as most radio stations weren't working.  Was then eventually told to go home.

Since there was no subway service, I started to walk... some radio stations did eventually come back, and found out it was a power outage.  Still didn't know the extend of the outage. I think I listened to 680 News at the time.  In the end, I walked from York & Wellington all the way up to Yonge & Shepherd.  It took about four hours or so.  Asked someone to pick me up and eventually went home around 9 PM.

I was working at a data centre at the time and someone that night went out and took a picture of the building and the data centre was the only floor of the entire building that had lights.  The company eventually turned that into a marketing campaign.  We had a few diesel generators on the roof of the building and I think they filled those suckers three times during the outage.  None of our customers suffered any downtime.

 

I thought it was my Plex Server that crapped out while recording Global News at 5:30.  I time-shift watching the news to avoid watching ads and Plex only recorded 58 minutes on Friday.  Glad to know it wasn't a problem with my Plex Server.

Hope they will fix their pixelation problem as OTA has been having issues since last September, which is still ongoing.
 

Quantum Leap (2022) is bad... sometimes cringy.  Not much else to say other than that.

CSI Vegas (2021) doesn't bring back everybody at the same time and so far it's not bad.  At least I don't feel like I am hate-watching it.

RadioAaron wrote:

I can't remember the last time I knew anyone who owned a battery operated (non-car) radio. In terms of availability during a power outage, it's been cell over radio every time for me.

I had a Walkman-type device with radio during the great blackout of August 14, 2003. I was working in downtown Toronto at the time and the radio came in handy as nobody knew what was going on as the building was being evacuated.  It kept me company while I made my trek from York & Wellington to Yonge & Sheppard where someone picked me up.

I do have one that I still use everyday.  It's a Sangean HDR-14.  I use it to listen to HD Radio for NT1010 & 640 Toronto.  There's too much interference where I live with AM radio...  It also came in handy with the Rogers outage back in July this year.
 

They rotate different guests for "Free For All Friday".  I used to listen when Amanda Galbraith was hosting, but she went on mat leave.  Since then, they are rotating different hosts, as well as different guests.

According to my podcast catcher...
This week's show is hosted by Mike Kakuk and features panelists Ryan Price, news director and afternoon drive host on CFAX 1070 in Victoria, B.C, and Karen Restoule, CEO of Shared Value Solutions, BOLD Realities and Whose Land.

Ads during a show are starting to get annoying.  First noticed it on Global TV.  They are showing ads for other shows that shrinks the show that is currently airing and have lower third and right third of the screen with the ad promoting other shows.  Then, on CityTV, they have these sort of preview ads where the lower-third is completely blocked with the show airing full screen (show airing is not resized), and then seconds later, the actual ad is shown.  Happened last night during "Quantum Leap".  I remember the show from years ago, but I haven't watched the reboot.  I just came across this in the guide and recorded it using my Plex Server to check it out.  There were two ads.  One for a PlayStation game, and the other was a MasterCard ad.  I know they have done this with live sports broadcasts for decades, but I think doing it during non-live programming is crossing a line.

Yes, broadcast TV is dying a slow death and they have to find new ways of generating revenue, but when you are selling ads like this, I think it will just drive more people to streaming.

Screenshots of these preview ads: https://imgur.com/gallery/dXMAq8p
 

newsguy1 wrote:

Also enough with the stupid bloody Spence Diamonds nonsense.
After pretending they sell bargain diamonds they tell you they will sell you a four thousand dollar men's ring?
Really?

I have my radio play through my PC and I have a script that mutes it for 58 seconds as soon as the commercial comes on.  As soon as I hear "Callum", I click over to the terminal window and start that script.

Luckily, since Kelly Cutrara has moved time slot, I now listen to her on CHML on 95.3 HD3.  I listen to this station instead of 640 Toronto when she comes on in the afternoon so I have a few hours I can avoid the stupid commercial completely.
 

Glen Warren wrote:

Where are you viewing from, and how are you receiving the signal? 
 

In Markham, Ontario, about 100 metres south of Highway 7 between Leslie & Bayview.

I use an indoor OTA that faces south.  I checked my tuner and when tuned to 41.1, all of signal strength, signal quality, and symbol quality are at 100%.  It has been almost a month, and I am still seeing these artifacts.
 

Used to be their listener.  I remember they had a trial run when they went sports in the evenings, and then eventually switched to full-time sports in September, 1992.  I think I heard them switched to The Fan at 3 PM when Bob McCown went live from the then SkyDome.  I think Dan Shulman was also there.  The semi-regular segment later named "Lady and the Tramps" (the two previously mentioned gentlemen along with Barb DiGiulio) was great even though it didn't have a lot to do with sports... Had listened to The Fan for many years, even streaming them from work when they were streaming from their web site using RealAudio.  Haven't listened to them once since they fired Bob McCown though.  Wasn't a huge fan of McCown, but I just didn't like how Rogers handled things.

Why bother providing signatures when you can get an intern to do it.  Bell Media... such a great organization. /s

Those who are in charge don't really care about HD Radio.  The rest of them don't know anything about them.  All they care about is streaming and smart speakers these days.  I once submitted a comment to NT1010 about the loss of their HD Radio signal back in May 2000, and surprisingly Mike Bendixen (Program Director at NT1010 before he left/was fired) personally responded.  At GNR640, nobody cares.  Their HD Radio signal is weaker than NT1010's and I have tried to get their attention multiple times when their broadcast goes silent even though my radio shows good signal, and nobody has acknowledged any of my messages.