How the mighty have fallen.  CFRB 1.1 only proves corporations such as Bell should not be approved to own a radio station.  They are just a bottom line organization and have no idea how to successfully operate in broadcasting.  Doesn't look good on the CRTC.  CFRB 1010 a sad case today. 

Watching the Mets Brewers game, TV host Jon Sciambi must have gone to the Dan Shulman School of Broadcasting.   Sciambi’s play-by-play is over the top, his colour side kick can’t get a word in.

Charlie Hustle has died.  Pete Rose passed away on September 30th at the age of 83. a career that spanned 24 seasons won two World Series titles with his hometown Cincinnati Reds.  One of the game’s greatest players had more hits than any other player ever. In 1986 Rose unofficially retired as a player.  Managing the Reds in 1989 there were allegations about his betting habits, never admitting to betting on his team.  Unfortunately, Rose received a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball for betting on baseball while he was still an active manager.   The hype about the Pete Rose issue seems very hypocritical.  Today any TV baseball game is rife with betting advertisements between each inning encouraging wagering on the game.  Given today’s betting climate, perhaps Charlie Hustle’s banishment is questionable.

The recent expansion by Global News of its evening report from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm is a disaster.  It is difficult to determine the reason.  The expansion includes unnecessary repetition of similar news stories, and devotes extension time to "soft' or human interest material which consumes valuable reporting time.  Antony Robarts reads well but should be a reporter not an anchor. The original news hour suffered under some of the same issues but at least was diverted by weather information.  Unless there is a major on-going news event of some severity, it is a chore to maintain viewer interest.  With the time extension, you will lose some original viewers because of repetition and perhaps affecting sponsorships.  It is a challenge to fill one hour of a news program with original material in order to retain the viewer.  Any extension of time is superfluous which really questions the recent Global News staff changes.

Normally when watching the Jays play, the radio audio is on and TV audio is off.  Unfortunately with no Jays game on local radio in the afternoon, the only alternative is to resort to endure the TV audio broadcast.  It's really impossible to enjoy the game with the incessant dialogue by Shulman and his guests much of which is not game related.  Give it a rest Dan.

The insatiable appetite of Edward Rogers to control the sports scene in Toronto has taken another step.  Rogers’ domination of the sports market in the city is evident with his recent purchase of Bell’s investment in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $4.7 billion dollars.  Bell is out Rogers is in.  MLSE owns the Toronto Maple Leafs; the Toronto Raptors; the Toronto Blue Jays, the Rogers Centre and Sportsnet, the Toronto Argonauts and Toronto FC Soccer Club.  That just leaves MLSE chairman Larry Tanenbaum, with his 20% and 5% owned by OMERS, a Canadian pension fund.  It’s only time before the Toronto’s sports teams are neglected the way The Blue Jays have been.  It’s all about Rogers’ bottom line and no more.  You only have to look at Rogers’ failure to devote interest in the Jays, it will be mirrored in their other sports entities.  What the city lacks is a sports-minded enterprise, not a profit-obsessed corporation who doesn’t know a hockey puck from a catcher’s mitt, and could care less.
 

Expansion of Global news and yet they let Alan Carter go.  The inmates are running the asylum.  

The endless superfluous TV play-by-play chatter is over the top failing to realize, IT'S TV, there are pictures!  

Just two reasons why I don't listen to CFRB any longer.

A far cry from "Ontario's Authoritative News Voice", its a shame what CFRB has become.

Still a chore to watch the Jays TV play-by-play as Schulman must get paid by the word.

Why do those doing colour on the Jays radio play-by-play feel the need prevent any dead air with their constant repetitive commentary on what was just heard.  There are times when another viewpoint is desired but to constantly feel compelled to insert commentary at every paused opportunity makes tolerating the radio broadcast a chore.  Madison Shipman should stick to TV.     

As a former ND of 70's Toronto radio, it's a joke that CFRB can even say they have a newsroom.  In order to promote yourself as an "authoritative" news source, you must have some and CTV ain't it!  No reporters inside or on the outside.  Their constant programming lineup changes become routine lacking any sign of professional input. This shell of its former self is a result of Bell's ownership, only confirmed by their basement ratings. 

You can hear the fans clamoring that heads should roll for what the current Blue Jays are producing.  The owners, Rogers Communications Inc. are not baseball people.
Spending more than $400 million dollars on stadium renovations and increasing ticket prices are only ploys to increase revenues.  Jays president Mark Shapiro and, in hi ninth season as Blue Jays general manager, Ross Atkins, have done nothing to bolster the club to a championship calibre.
Prior to coming to Toronto, their tenure at Cleveland was a bust.  Atkins' latest attempts to add high-profile players to the team are a joke - you need more than AAA no-names.  The fans deserve more than just a fancy dressed-up ballpark.  It shouldn't take a manager close to 10 years to create a winner, if he has the baseball smarts necessary.  Heads should roll.

The incessant non play-by-play commentary by Martinez and Schulman is over the top.  The constant back and forth conversations that don't add to the game is annoying and unnecessary.  Give it a rest Buck.