I am not sure if more or less Cancon is a good idea. If the music is good and listeners and advertisers want it and it just happens to be Canadian, then all the better.
But I always believed that radio needs to be local. They need to have time to showcase local up and coming music and be connected to the local community. Yesterday I was in the Guelph area. I turned on 106.1fm . After an hour or so, I heard station ID once, no local advertising, ( only national ads) in fact nothing that says this station is a proud local Guelph station.

In many cases, but not all, the problem is that Radio has forgotten how to be a local station, its not how much or how little Canadian music is played. Its how the station is run.

My guess is Ford, or it could be Steve interviewing himself.

Just an idea as we really don't know what the contact says. But I think it would help the station if they had a no rerun clause, if there is reruns it would be limited to over nights or long weekends.

Is it me or is Ben Mulroney slowly preparing for a future time without traditional radio. Right now he is on 3 platforms that I am aware of ( radio, podcast and YouTube video.) I like his content and some of his rants, but when you look at the background on YouTube it makes you wonder. When other radio personalities go on YouTube you see the station brand in the background,  but in this case you only see Ben's name in the background,

I don't think this is a bad thing, but with all the bad news coming out of Corus this small thing starts to make you wonder if he  is slowly preparing for a day without Corus and traditional radio

After being seating on the 401 for an extended amount of time this morning, it got me wondering. When did Toronto radio start giving traffic reports, who came up with the idea and how has it evolved and changed over the years.
Its been a staple on local radio and TV but who was first and when did other stations pick up the idea.

I really don't understand why Bell, Corus and Rogers use CP for there hourly news in the first place. Is it that hard to have a pre recorded National newscast. CBC has been doing it for a very long time, National news at the top of the hour and local news at the bottom on the hour but only at selected times of the day. An example CBC Toronto does not have local news at 2:30am but they do at 2:30pm

Just my thoughts

https://cknxnewstoday.ca/news/2025/05/24/teacher-4-students-from-walkerton--school-killed-in-london-area-collision

Sometimes a sad story comes along that really touches your heart. The link above also shows the importance of having local reporters who live in the local community available to report on stories 7 days a week.

Coverage of stories like this can't be easy on the people who covers it, especially if you also live in the same community, having you kids going to the same school or a near by school.
There are times when losing a little bit of money is worth the cost of doing business.  In my opinion this is one of them.

From what I have heard on other podcasts, Bell has been very helpful with the change of ownership. For CKTB I would do a slow change as the station becomes more local. My first target would be the 10 - Noon time slot, followed by more specialty programing on the weekend. They need to removed CP24 on weekends even if its repackaged weekday programing.
I would also get into airing local sports programing like OHL or Tripple "A" hockey.

Or even the new radio home of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, they need programing you can not get from other radio stations.

With Toronto not having any type of dedicated Auto - Radio coverage for the last few years,  I think its time for Bell Media and the CFL to make a deal with an up and coming podcaster. Having the game streaming on more platforms than just TSN will only increase the chances of growing the audience. The one thing big media companies don't seem to understand is people have not stopped listening to Audio, they just stopped listening to radio.

I am not sure what type of market there would be for the CFL on Spotify (and others) but if you don't try, you will never know.

On Monday I was in Ottawa in the morning and was able to watch both of the CTV station's morning shows. CTV2 ( CHRO) had a 1 person local show ( 1 person was off and no one was avaliable to fill in). And CTV1 ( CJOH) had the national show from Toronto with 3 people on air, I think still from Queen and John.
The stories were basically the same, but I did feel the local Ottawa show had more positive energy and the host seemed to want to be there and was smiling and looked happy. Over in Toronto it was a lot more serious and for the time I watched they never smiled or seemed happy.

Does anyone know when or if the national show will get moved to Scarborough.

This is just my observation.

Just by chance the plane I was on going to Amsterdam was also filled with members of Canadian Military.  It was a special fight including a water Canon Salute when we arrived.
We were in seating in the cheap sets and right in front of us was Adrienne Arsenault from CBC. I did not talk to her but she was very talkative with the people around her.

4 times the whole plane show our gratitude with applause for what Canada accomplished 80 years ago.

Well Done Canada.

Very impressed with how CTV went from a local newscast to a National show in the same studio. ( at least I think its the same space.) With no real space between shows.

I am likely going with CTV but Global is a close 2nd.

In the past Global has done there show from Toronto, I'm wondering if this year will be the same or will they do it in Vancouver.
One thing that always surprises me is no one does there show from Ottawa, not even CBC.
This is a national election and Ottawa is our Capital. I know the location does not matter, but its the symbolism of it.

The funeral will take place Saturday at 10am local time. This means live overnight programing for the networks and stations that cover it.
It will be interesting to see who goes over to Rome and who covers it from a studio here.

I thought the production value of both debates were good. I did notice the theme music did sound like some of the cbc theme music. They had the contract, so why not and not a big deal. I do hope they move the debates around to other parts of the country. I understand that Alberta might not be the best location, but what about Ottawa or Fredericton.Both locations are bilingual, I'm sure there are other city's that would work too.