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| SOWNY » Battle Royale: Bell Accuses Rogers Of Illegally Moving Their Channels » January 28, 2025 3:11 pm |
- Davenet
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Like rats fighting over the last chunk of pizza while the ship continues to sink. (Sorry about the laboured metaphor!) Linear channels just get more and more expensive and offer less and less decent programming. The world continues to move to streaming, where you can choose what you want to watch, and when. All of the channels they're fighting over will be gone in a couple of years, I predict.
| SOWNY » Obituary of Edward Adam Bogdanowicz, P.Eng » January 9, 2025 2:08 pm |
- Davenet
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Never met the guy myself, but when I worked at Global a few years ago, there was still some remaining evidence of his work. No one does engineering like that anymore.
| SOWNY » The "51st state" and its implications (Political Thread) » January 9, 2025 2:01 pm |
- Davenet
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newsguy1 wrote:I'm alarmed at the enormous skreeds all of you are writing on this thread.
No offence but it's a colossal waste of effort.
Trump is only going to be around for four years, and might even die or become incompetent before that.
Any idea how long a process it would be for Canada and the US to merge?
That process could take decades of the most complicated legal and economic wrangling the world has ever known.
You're right, Canada will never become the 51st state. However, Trump may well force, through economic sanctions, Canada to make changes that benefit the U.S. In the broadcast realm, he may demand the Online News Act be repealed, or an end to restrictions on foreign ownership of Canadian media and telecom companies. That's a real concern.
| SOWNY » The "51st state" and its implications (Political Thread) » January 7, 2025 12:13 pm |
- Davenet
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I think that if this were to happen, all Canadian media, cable and wireless companies would be quickly bought out by the American giants. Any media companies that remain would have nothing to broadcast, as they hold the broadcast rights for programs in a country that no longer exists.
The CRTC would disappear, of course, along with all of the funds used to support the Canadian broadcast system (the Independent Local News Fund, for example).
The CBC would also be gone in short order. There is no way they would survive without government funding, and the American government is certainly not going to step up. In fact, the incoming administration may well pull its funding for PBS and NPR as one of the items in Project 2025 plan.
| SOWNY » Will The OTA Networks Interrupt Programming For This? » January 7, 2025 11:47 am |
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I noticed that the Conservatives chose to release a video instead of holding a press conference. That's clever, as news programs are forced to air the video as is, and reporters are denied the opportunity to ask Pollieve any difficult questions. An excellent way to control the message through the media.
| SOWNY » An Odd Radio-Related Family Discovery » December 13, 2024 2:28 pm |
- Davenet
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ig wrote:
Doubt it. 416-870 is (was?) a Bell Choke exchange. Designed to deal with massive incoming calls, for contests, radio promotions etc. Otherwise it could knock out the entire exchange.
Reminds me of when I was involved with the startup of Flow 93.5 back in 2001. The powers-that-be there chose a small third-party provider to handle all of the station's phone needs. That included 4 lines for on-air use. Bell's Choke exchange services were NOT used, presumably because of the expense.
On our first call-in show we announced the number to call and, within a couple of minutes, completely crashed the provider's systems! We got no calls at all for the rest of the hour.
| SOWNY » CKOT 101.3 » November 27, 2024 3:06 pm |
- Davenet
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Fitz wrote:
Here is some audio of CKOT from 1991. The same tape also has a show called the Beat of the Band from CFCA and a country station from London called BX 93 both of which are from 1980. Cant remember when or how I obtained the tape.
CKOT 1991
Long time lurker, first time poster!
That clip was interesting to hear. I worked there for a short time about 4 years before that clip was made. I recognized the voices, though I've long forgotten the names.
We had a young high school student working the evening shift (AM side) part time. His name was Mike Epple--yes, that one. I used to annouce "Coming up next, the Big Epple!" when my shift was ending.
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