Surely you're not serious...😇

mace wrote:

Someone at the Buffalo News has calculated that with their Sunday night loss, it has been 21,203 days since the Leafs won the Stanley Cup.

'Calculated' my ass!  There's probably an app for that. 😁

In the old days, we'd have to manually count the days, although the smarter ones of us knew enough to just add 365 (or 366) for a whole year. 🤓

Putin resorting to 'Shortwave Bingo' to feed the russian coffers. 
First game: four corners: bottle vodka.
Second game: cover all: stolen Ukraine washing machine.
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newsguy1 wrote:

Listening to 1010 playing CP24 this morning.
A woman read that doctors found a cancerous NOH-dyool (sted of NOD-ule) on Joe Biden's prostate.
Now I'm waiting to hear someone say PROSTRATE -- yes that has happened.


 

For all intensive purposes, that would be terrible!
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Radiowiz wrote:

Forward Power wrote:

During my college years in the early 2000s, The Bay, which had a store in Kingston's Cataraqui Town Centre, was a regular advertiser on 98.3 FLY FM; this was when Zellers, also in "The Cat Centre", was also still doing radio. Still remember The Bay's jingle at the time: "more than you came for.....at The Bay!" Sometimes followed by the thunderclap and "FLY FM Satellite Weather..."

I still remember "It's hard not to think of the Bay..."  A jingle I think they should bring back and make good use of. 

At least one version of that "It's hard not to think of the Bay" jingle was sung by that chorus that also sang about Yorkdale ("Yorkdale!  Yorkdale!").  They always seemed to be slightly dissonant no matter what they were singing.  Not necessarily bad, just seemed like everyone was trying to outdo everyone else in the chorus.  Then again, maybe it's my tin ear. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dale Patterson wrote:

Binson Echorec wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

They'll probably increase it. More "Can-Crap", as the late Mike Cleaver described it.

Most folk have that opinion...because Canadian acts have been force fed to us. "They're playing that because they have to". And to a point, Mike Cleaver is right - a lot of it was, well...not good and only got on the air thanks to the regs.

My 2¢:
Back when I was producing a music show that focused on the years 1965-1975, finding CanCon that hadn't burnt itself out over the years was a challenge.

So I did what most people my age do...I scoured the internet and file sharing programs to source discographies from Canadian artists of that era, both well-known and less so. I found a ton of stuff both well-known and obscure - and because the file sharing program I was using showed the flags of the sharing IP addresses, I was surprised to learn the majority of the sharers were NOT Canadian.

My takeaway was (and still is) that clearly this music appeals to people somewhere, just not here because we've a built in aversion from being forced to play it.

I've never owned a Rush record in my life but they made music consistently for forty-five years or so. Surely radio could opt for something other than "Tom Sawyer" or "The Spirit of Radio". God forbid radio played a lesser known tune by a popular act, you might just turn somebody on to said act by doing so. Perish the thought.

One wonders if Canadian music were played strictly on merit, how much would be played?
 

Good lord, yes.  Classic rock Can con needs to get rid of all the Nick Gilder. 🤨

Binson Echorec wrote:

Ouch.

With the recent news surrounding Rome, I was surprised to hear a 680News weekender refer to the upcoming "puh-PAWL" conclave.

The newsreader had just finished binge watching multiple seasons of 'RuPaul's Drag Race'? 🤔😁

RadioActive wrote:

It's now a somewhat decrepit and run down building, but the former home of the legendary WKBW-AM radio still stands. In a video put up by Buffalo Broadcasters, former KB morning man Danny Neaverth went back to the place on Main St. where so much magic happened over a killer 50KW signal. 

Joey Reynolds and Sandy Beach aren't there, but both are very much a part of the tour. It's only 7 minutes, but what a great memory blaster.

I am uncertain, but the bushy haired fellow (colour still photo) shown when Dan and Martin are describing the studio might be Don Berns.  Was in Buffalo for years before eventually making his way to Toronto.  Then again, it could be Don Pesola.

They were late. 🤨
12:56 instead of 12:55.
I know, kwitcherbitchin. 😁

Far be it from me 😇 to point out the fact, but wasn't there a province wide test a few years back that failed miserably?  What was supposed to be a single alert at a specific time turned into a patchwork of failed tests in various regions.  I do not recall the specific date, but I recall discussing this with relatives around the province. 😈
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Besides, all a Canadian needs to do is follow US invasion plans on that dolt Hegseth's 🥴 SIGNAL account. 🤨

RadioActive wrote:

Interesting article, although I thought he'd save most of it for his radio show. But I have one question. How can this be true?
  
"We had a great thing going on the 640 Toronto morning drive show—“Toronto Today with Greg Brady.” We were the most-listened to talk show in that time slot with key demographics advertisers want to spend dollars on."

Really? What about CBC Radio 1? (Yes, they don't accept ads, but still - does the CBC not have a larger audience, regardless of age?) Surely that easily out rates Brady in the morning.

This guy needs to meet up with 'Buddy Shula', they're made for each other. 🤨

There is a group of us in our sixties and seventies that had the unedited versions of the WB cartoons, and we're not all that bad of a bunch.  CFRB should probably using that demographic for a contest base, not a Mothers' Day tie in.

A bit of trivia in that Elmer Fudd in that era was voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan, veteran of numerous radio and film roles.  Most notably he was Fibber McGee's foil Doc Gamble on 'Fibber McGee and Molly'.

Mel Blanc had it written into his contract that Blanc alone received billing for voices, even though he didn't do all of them.  A lot of the radio personalities ended up on the early days of television, and also voicing animated characters.  Anyone remember Frank Nelson?  Nelson's "Yyyyyyyyeeeeeesss????" persona transferred from Jack Benny's radio program over to Benny's television show, and also was a semi regular voice on 'The Flintstones'.

RadioAaron wrote:

BowmanvilleBob wrote:

For those who missed it, Jivani used an interview with the CBC (gasp) to slam Doug Ford, calling him an "opportunist" who doesn't "do anything particularly well.", adding that Ford's "goons" stopped his efforts to get results at the federal level. Hmmm...given Doug's kindly and forgiving nature, I'm sure this will go over well at Queen's Park.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6739918

That clip is wild! Jivani is just awful. No wonder he's friends with JD.

I'm not a fan of Ford policy-wise, but all politicians are "opportunist." I prefer to call it pragmatic. He's shown the ability to swim upstream and say/do the right thing when it really matters. I don't really care what his motivations are, I'm just glad to have him looking out for us (to the limit of his abilities) at pivotal moments. 

Never thought I'd say that.

Please forgive my obtuseness...'friends with JD'...JD is?

I remember the commercials he did for Hitachi televisions, way back when.

RadioActive wrote:

What happens to Kevin Frankish?

Frankly, Frankish is f*****.

That alliterative observation by me is almost as bad as all these latter day scribes, who just have to trip over themselves to insert puns into headlines.  Niagara Falls Review is especially bad for this.  The question that needs asking: Is it the reporter's fault, or the editor's? 🤔