Condolences to his family and friends.

The 1944 documentary was interesting for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the concept of "stratovision" to allow TV and radio signals to reach larger audiences outside of the metro broadcasting areas. The discussion on this interesting topic begins around the 21:00 mark in the documentary, but you can also learn more about it here:

"It's Stratovision"

mic'em wrote:

As the season finale's of the  current TV season are winding down, what was your favourite ? For me, it was NCIS Origins. I'm glad it has been renewed for another season. I liked Dark Winds on AMC also, although not a new show, the third  season wrapped up last Sunday.  

I agree about NCIS Origins, which became a rare case of appointment viewing in our home. The writing and acting are both superb and the plotlines extend over several episodes, rather than the hurried attempts to wrap everything up in the last ten minutes of each episode format that's so common these days. I'm particularly impressed with the performance of Canadian actor Kyle Schmid, who plays Mike, the head of the NIS office. Glad to see it will be coming back next year. 

ED1 wrote:

BowmanvilleBob wrote:

Election night blackouts on reporting voting results ended a few years ago. While the major OTA networks will sequence their coverage to begin when the polls close in each region, the cable networks like CBC NN and CTV News Channel will run from the moment the polls close in Atlantic Canada. The CRTC recognized that with social media, the concept of keeping voters out west in the dark about results in the east was tilting at windmills.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/election-night-results-blackout-a-thing-of-the-past-1.3259787

Actually, this year CBC, CTV, and Global will also start their coverage as soon as polls close in the east. Citytv’s the only one staggering their coverage start time.

I stand corrected. Thanks everyone.

A couple of quick anecdotes from the pre-social media era in this vein.

One of my first jobs was at a station in Western Canada where the local cable company featured a number of eastern CBC and CTV affiliates as part of its basic package. It was a real mom and pop operation, and the owner made the mistake of telling us and the local newspaper that he had no intention of scrambling those cable signals on federal election night until the polls in our area closed. He tried to frame it as a free speech issue, but everyone suspected he was simply too lazy to do the work. He backed down when he was told he'd be facing some big fines if he didn't so something. 
Flash forward to 1993, I'm working for SBN and covering the Campbell campaign in Vancouver on election night. Our affiliate stations were strictly told they could not run any newscasts containing election results or join our network coverage until the polls closed in their areas. One station in Vancouver, an oldies/nostalgia outlet, didn't get the memo and in the midst of everything I was doing, I had to call them to try and figure out why they were running the wrong newscasts. The kid on the board at that station who ran the

...but not from TVO:

https://www.tvo.org/article/and-thats-the-agenda-thanks-for-watching

I doubt he would be listening to CFRA in the mornings as a kid in Ottawa, unless he had a thing for wheezy old gas bags like Ken (the General) Grant, Lowell Green, Steve Madeley or Hal Anthony. My guess is he'd either be listening to The Bear or CHEZ 106.1. 

"No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs." - Garrison Keillor.

Although it's been two decades since I was last on the air in a professional capacity, I still have dreams about my radio days.

This article, while a little flowery at times in its description, puts a bit of perspective on this phenomenon for ex-radio types.

https://radioink.com/2025/03/24/steve-allan-rdi-the-radio-dream/

While avoiding politics on the pros and cons of the various parties and personallities, it can be confirmed that Evan Solomon will be a Liberal candidate in the upcoming election: 

A certain phrase comes to mind...

For those with an interest in what plans the CBC's new president has for the organization, here's an interview with Marie-Philippe Bouchard from CBC's local morning show in Calgary.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-5-calgary-eyeopener/clip/16133301-cbcs-president-organizations-future

Since 1945, only two American presidents have had negative public approval ratings after their first month in office. Both of them are named Donald Trump.

Really RA? My first job in radio way back in the early 80s involved working at a station in southwestern Ontario as one-half of a two person news department. The owner was a notoriously cheap guy who sold our station vehicle, which was shared by sales, sports and news, and I couldn't afford a car of my own at that stage. I rode my bike to cover town council meetings, sporting events and even fires and local cop calls in the middle of the night. Obviously, I couldn't ride in the winter months and no one expected me to, but in a small, urban environment, it made perfect sense for me to use the tools I had at the time to do the job.

Whatever your opinion of the CBC's management, I don't think they're stupid enough to require TV crews to lug heavy equipment through the snow on a bicycle. That simply defies common sense and would be the subject of enough union grievances to fill a filing cabinet. It's one thing to support a specific ideology that favours cut, cut, cut when it comes to the public broadcaster, but it's entirely different matter to suggest that management would endorse a set of policies that would endanger crews or put the outlet at a severe competitive disadvantage against their private-sector counterparts. 

Hap was a regular visitor to the Ottawa bureau of Standard Broadcast News during my time there. Unlike a lot of other commentators, he liked to go to the scene of the action to get a feel for what was happening on the ground. Whether it was a major political event or a natural or man-made disaster, Hap always wanted to be there and that dedication helped make his commentaries so much better than many other broadcast pundits of 80s, 90s and through the aughts as well. 

Not as widely known as his broadcast work were Hap's weekly columns for the Bolton (later Caledon) Enterprise. He finally signed off his last column in 2022 and it's probably a good sign-off for reliable, dependable journalist who told the stories as he saw them.

https://www.caledonenterprise.com/opinion/longtime-caledon-columnist-says-farewell/article_d3c6b508-adb4-5e34-8031-c46184c5ef67.html

What happens when local news outlets are significantly reduced or closed? According to this article in The Walrus Magazine, the result is that fact-based journalism is often replaced with speculation and disinformation, which means local residents are less engaged in their communities.