Yeah I know bonuses are a legal construct but the last line is particularly damning:

"Corus added that “management also furthered considerable efforts to right-size the Company for a more sustainable future, achieving stated targets related to headcount reductions by the end of the fiscal year.”

What's the takeaway other than the Execs were rewarded for cutting jobs?

I'm sure this will land well:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-corus-paid-bonuses-to-executives-this-year-as-its-shares-collapsed/
Sorry, this might be paywalled.

In the pre-streaming era, some of the "landmark HBO" shows (Oz, Sopranos) only ran 8-13 episode seasons.

I do prefer the term "series" over "season". It's more accurate since there are now multiple television seasons per calendar year. Hearing Jeff Probst proclaim "Survivor Season 47" always sounded weird/wrong to me and I believe the latest promos have dropped the word "season", and it sounds cleaner being promoted as "Survivor 47".

TheWiz wrote:

Storm wrote:

I am wondering if the Hamilton management positions will be taken over by someone else, or do they also fall under the umbrella of the "Kitchener/Guelph Cluster".

I've heard rumblings that the Hamilton cluster will be shut down. 95.3 will be run out of Toronto and 107.9 is moving to London.

No rumblings or "will bes" about it, those FM moves happened when Corus shuttered CHML in August. There are no people left in Hamilton per se.

RadioAaron wrote:

The Ottawa PD is now serving as PD for all Ontario stations outside of Toronto.

The Ottawa PD is a rock star and a true talent - easily one of my favourite people in the industry today.

Paul Thomas, formerly of Zoomer radio has landed the gig...

https://www.milkmanunlimited.com/post/changes-within-the-corus-audio-division

Shorty Wave wrote:

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.

Hollywood Suite also has an Irish crime drama called Kin available. They only have S1 on offer but the show is decent and has a great cast.

Stock is currently valued at 9¢.

The television version of Police Squad! is pound-for-pound funnier than the movies could ever hope to be.

Sledge Hammer! was also great.

Radiowiz wrote:

He's the new Bill Carroll, I guess...

Did Bill run for office and lose twice too?
 

I've always thought "Ask The Experts" to be a bit of a lame umbrella term for client-based programming. Come up with a proper show name instead, even if it's a one-off.

Hansa wrote:

The CRTC doesn't (or at least didn't used to) particarly care what a radio station did after midnight. Cancon doesn't apply from midnight to 6 am, for instance.

This, I knew. I used to produce an overnight music show. IIRC, we ran CanCon at 20% just to keep some degree of consistency.

I was thinking more along the lines of adult-targeted programming. Sue Johanson's "Sunday Night Sex Show", as an example; but that show was an outlier, it's not like each station offered up their own slate of such programming that I can recall. Which is how I got here in the first place lol.

Of course it could be argued that a talk station is adult-targeted all day long. I suppose a music station could "leave in all the swears" in tunes after a certain hour.

ig wrote:

#KIDS    Toll Free, anywhere in Canada.

Say it out loud.

I love stuff like this. However, thanks to social media, I initially read it as "hashtag kids". Nobody under 35 knows it as a pound sign, and nobody under 90 knows it as an octothorpe.

Muffaraw Joe wrote:

Mike Monty taught us well at Seneca

He sure did. Michael Monty was a good man.

I was fortunate to "debut" (after college radio) during my internship on a random overnight at Q107. Nothing serious, just bantering with the host at the time.

So how long will Seneca and Humber hang on to their programs?
 

Easily Amused wrote:

Remember when journalists and broadcasters were wordsmiths? 🤨

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

On topic, I've seen Perkins make unforced errors repeatedly but I'll forgive this one. Spanner is almost "too British".

I'm guessing nobody gets to review the copy before going to air, which I cannot fathom.

As for the Orion problem - a good guest will pronounce the word correctly after hearing the host bungle it and an even better host will pick up on that and adjust their own faux pas.

(Now I want to hear today's newspeople pronounce "faux pas")