Well I'm 99.9 per cent human and 0.1 per cent dental crowns and I can't get the link to open.

Found a non-theft link here:

https://www.wellandtribune.ca/opinion/contributors/wellands-former-chow-radio-station-on-air-since-1957/article_a243d781-20bd-5c0c-b1c3-288e2a2b0d51.html

Link doesn't work for me.

Here is a theft-free link:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-bryan-adams-cancon-ministers-office/

Former Corus Radio/AM 640 Let's Talk (I maintain it was largely a clips show) host Dani Stover bids farewell in her new online blog, continuing to drop hints that she may resurface soon as a podcaster:

https://danistover.substack.com/p/dumped?r=z9sb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true


 

Shorty Wave wrote:

KenkuKwanchi wrote:

Looks like Ari Rabinovitch is no longer with Citynews 680 as per LinkedIn profile.

 
I just checked LinkedIn, (Nov. 30), and he’s still listed as being with CityNews/680. Hope so, he left a decent gig to join Rogers back a few years ago.

While his LinkedIn profile main title lists him as with Rogers, under his Experience resume section he lists November 2024 as his end date with Rogers.

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?
 

More context here:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/global-news-parent-company-corus-explores-potential-sale

There's been a Wayfair commercial running for a few weeks now featuring Kelly Clarkson and Peter Billingsley, as grown-up Ralphie from A Christmas Story.

andysradio wrote:

If one were to look up Global Kingston, under schedule are still listed 2 over-the-air TV repeaters that are long gone: 
Brighton and Brockville.

https://globalnews.ca/pages/ckws-kingston-schedule/

Could you clarify: didn't Corus switch to multiplexing four years ago or so, shutting down the Brighton and Brockville sites as transmitters but using their remaining towers in Kingston and Ottawa to multiplex separate signals for the Brighton and Spencerville over-the-air contours? Or are has Corus now turned those signals off permanently too as a further cost cut?

When CTV announced in February that the W5 program was being cancelled, they did say at the time that W5 would be converted into an investigative news unit. So Oct. 5 is the airing of the first hour-long documentary from the W5 investigative news unit but it's not a revival of the W5 weekly series. The unit is also doing a five-part series for CTV National News that will begin airing on Monday. Both the documentary and the series are on the related topic of the Darien Gap narcotics and migration trail between Central and South America.

RadioActive wrote:

Hansa wrote:

Corus cuts radio, TV jobs in Kingston as part of cost savings
https://www.thewhig.com/news/corus-cuts-radio-tv-jobs-in-kingston-as-part-of-cost-savings

Special mention was made of the cuts in the House of Commons. But it was complimentary more than critical. I would have preferred the latter.

MP thanks Global Kingston, CKWS radio station for local journalism

The video speaks volumes about the value the federal government places on the private sector local news industry. Mostly empty chairs behind MP Mark Gerretsen, one meagre "hear-hear" and then a smattering of applause at the end.
 

Peterborough Fresh 100.5 afternoon host Dale Lowe retiring after 40-year radio hosting career, 35 of them in Peterborough. He's worried about the future of local radio.

https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterborough-region/all-the-signs-were-telling-me-it-was-time-to-call-it-a-career-dale/article_c45a0ed7-6367-54c5-ba71-249922a8e6e6.html

"There are also requirements to use any Excess Cash to repay outstanding balances on the Revolving Facility and certain terms related to the use of proceeds on asset disposals, the ability to incur certain indebtedness, the ability to designate certain subsidiaries and certain reporting requirements, have also been amended."

Someone must have been paying close attention during all those adventures in borrowing scenes in The Godfather, Goodfellas and The Sopranos. 

Walter wrote:

They could save close to a million bucks by canning that sniveller, Ron McLean.

For the past 10 years, Ron MacLean's primary employer has been Rogers Sportsnet, which produces Hockey Night in Canada, which simulcasts on CBC and uses a CBC Toronto studio. HNIC advertisers cover his salary, whatever it is these days.

He appears on CBC Sports productions occasionally on a freelance basis. Most would have noticed he had a diminished role at the Paris Olympics as an analyst and not a primary host like he had been for many Olympics in the past.

RadioActive wrote:

I find this headline in The Bay Observer a little hard to accept. 

Corus Radio division showing a profit despite CHML closure

I found this article to be misleading. I'm not a financial expert, but I believe those figures would be for the quarterly divisional net earnings before interest and taxes. Corus Entertainment has $1 billion in debt, resulting in a massive interest obligation, so the Local Radio, Local TV divisions etc. each would have their proportional share of the interest costs still to pay. Statistics Canada publishes annual statistics, based on the actual tax filings of the private companies (but not broken down by company), that lately show that existing private Local Radio and private Local TV as a whole in Canada report massive losses each year.

cash wrote:

The Star is on the story - twenty years too late.

https://archive.ph/0r4lT

Well, note the last two paragraphs of this latest Toronto Star story: It confirms what I speculated about in this forum on July 12 -- a publication ban was in effect for Gerald Fremlin's 2005 trial to protect the identity of Andrea Skinner as a sexual assault victim. 
It wasn't a case of the news media conspiring at the time to cover up his conviction, as some have speculated. (More likely, as the July 13 Hansa posting points out, Goderich is a small town with hardly any local news media to cover a trial like this, and even if there was any trial coverage at the time the publication ban would have meant no names, making the story largely irrelevant, and on top of that incestual molesting cases are somewhat common and inconsequential in any jurisdiction and usually don't get news media attention like a significant murder trial would.)
Skinner went public with her story with her essay in the Star a few weeks ago after her stepfather and then her mother Alice Munro had died.
She has since used the process I had described in the July 12 posting to request that the Superior Court finally lift the publication ban, as the new Star story notes.
A funny thing about these publication bans, at least in that era. If you were not in court at the time of the trial to hear that a publication ban was in effect, you likely would not have any other way of realizing there was a publication ban.
Nineteen years later, even The Star, as the new story notes, did not know about the publication ban when it published Skinner's essay.