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SOWNY » Trivial comments about Trivia » December 21, 2024 3:54 pm

dieter
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Our group of 4 will salute during our dinner at Mandarin next week. In the meantime,you should try for tickets to the New Year's Eve comedy show at Massey Hall if you know your Xmas movies.

SOWNY » Trivial comments about Trivia » December 20, 2024 11:25 pm

dieter
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Walter wrote:

Shorty Wave wrote:

Walter wrote:

Truly a Christmas miracle! 
 

 
Actually Walter, it was more of a Boxing Day miracle as part of the prize were tickets to see the Marlies at the ScotiaBank centre. I took my son and a couple of his pals, all but one came from single parent families. None had ever been to the ScotiaBank centre or a pro hockey game of any type, so that was a good prize pack not only for me! The seats were amazing and the lads had a blast!

Good for you.


God bless us, everyone!
 

SOWNY » Trivial comments about Trivia » December 20, 2024 11:24 pm

dieter
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As a regular trivia show listener, and frequent prize winner, I'm glad all you geniuses won't stoop low enough to call in and try your luck. The free meals, shopping and gas cards and show tickets are nice once in awhile. And hearing the really stupid answers or non-answers can be great fun. To each their own. 
   But you're right about many callers to that show, and pretty much all other radio shows, asking the host how they are. Really tiresome. I also resisted giving Richard Crouse a cold remedy.

SOWNY » More fun at CTV Toronto » November 11, 2024 7:57 pm

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The TV alumni on this site have often commented here on how CFTO and CTV ain't what they used to be.
   Two more oddities to comment on from Monday:

1. The 5:30 national cast included an item on Christine Sinclair playing her last competitive soccer match. The game was on the West Coast (Portland, Oregon) but the item was voiced by Paul Hollingsworth in Halifax. Was no reporter available in BC -- holiday or not?

2. And speaking of holidays, the 6 pm Toronto cast ran the usual stories on November 11 ceremonies in various places. But the scripts kept repeating the purpose of the events. I guess there's no one left there to clean up the repetition.

   That's it. Rant over

SOWNY » Casey Togtema Meets Earl Warren... » November 8, 2024 1:47 pm

dieter
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Togtema turned out to be a crook. After he died in 1989, it was revealed his dealership was involved in fraud. A number of employees were convicted.

SOWNY » Jerry and Anthony » November 5, 2024 12:44 am

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I'm not sure I'll hear any of this live on Tuesday morning. But I'll know why there will be smoke coming out of my radio. Jerry Agar will be -- okay, I'll go there -- furious over his pal Anthony Furey's loss in Monday's city council by-election. Jerry will be boiling over the fact that Kathleen Wynne and the rest of the "radical left" ganged up to beat Furey, who does not live in the ward. If Furey had won, Jerry would have had a 2nd city councillor to appear on his show. Now, he's stuck with only the cheap hypocrite Stephen Holyday. Poor Jerry.

SOWNY » Cranky Agar » November 1, 2024 11:59 am

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  I'm glad I slept late today.  Earlier this week, Agar asked his listeners if there was any need for Canada Post (prompted by the CUPW strike vote).  As is often the case, he didn't know what to say when 2 callers told him their small businesses depend on Canada Post because it's economical and dependable for parcel shipping.
    Also this week, he railed against Toronto's idea to raise the hotel tax to help pay for the World Cup. It would only affect him if he stayed in a local hotel, which he likely doesn't very often.  But that didn't stop him from screaming, and allowing callers to spew irrelevant nonsense about what happened to Olympic venues in Athens and Sarajevo.

SOWNY » No local news on CFRB this morning » October 20, 2024 4:50 pm

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   During the Sunday Morning Trivia show today, CFRB aired the CP hourly newscast.  Even though I'm a BN alumnus, it was odd hearing a 1010 newscast talk about the BC and NB elections, the Middle East, the US election -- and nothing about the overnight Toronto police beat.  This likely won't be the last Sunday there's no one in the once-fabled CFRB news room.

SOWNY » CFRB's New Contest: A Date With Jerry Agar » October 15, 2024 9:36 pm

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If Jerry had been in Gander, he would have opposed helping the passengers because it would have cost money.

SOWNY » Dr. Odyssey an epic fail -- but also really funny » October 15, 2024 9:14 pm

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As mentioned here, the show is doing well in the ratings. But as anyone who's been on a cruise knows, a lot of things going on are totally far-fetched. One site had some funny comments from a doctor, a nurse and a veteran crew member. Among the most ludicrous bits -- all of the medical staff leaving the ship  to party on the beach, and the nurse practitioner saying she has the same training as a doctor.

SOWNY » Mayor Chow Chokes on 1010 » October 9, 2024 8:12 pm

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Like many people here, I'm not an Agar fan. But Jerry was correct to say that someone in Chow's office should have marked Oct 7 in their calendar in red letters. They'd have known there would be a commemoration she needed to attend, instead of a public meeting about bike lanes in Etobicoke. Chow blaming her office for not knowing the details of the commemoration and/or misplacing the invite sounds far-fetched. John Tory certainly knew he had to be at the anniversary events for the Yonge Street van attack.

SOWNY » Another TV Sports Rant, But Really, This Is Ridiculous » September 29, 2024 1:09 pm

dieter
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Obviously the OP is not a sports fan. But for golf fans, the Ryder Cup is a great event every 2 years. The Presidents Cup isn't usually competitive, but it was until very late yesterday. The OP should look into how golf can be played in fog and avoid yesterday's delay.

  Who wants to warn RA that the Ryder Cup is coming up in about 12 months somewhere in the US? He'll likely complain again that there are 2 sessions on both Friday and Saturday -- 4-balls and foursomes (alternate shot). That means 11 hours of coverage both days. The Presidents Cup is stretched over 4 days, and Saturday is the only day of 36 holes for anyone.

   There. RA has been warned.

SOWNY » Teen Idol James Darren Dies At 88 » September 3, 2024 8:25 pm

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  His son is former CNN personality Jim Moret.

SOWNY » New Film Centres On How ABC Covered The Munich Olympic Massacre » August 30, 2024 11:34 pm

dieter
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I guess the movie will mention how Arledge kept Howard out of their coverage that day.

SOWNY » Strange Bedfellows: When Broadcasters Jump To Politics (And Back) » August 9, 2024 9:58 pm

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Chrisphen wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

And yet another broadcaster throws a hat into the ring. I believe he used to host a show on CFPL-AM and would occasionally show up as a sub on various Corus radio shows.

Radio host, author Andrew Lawton seeks CPC nomination in southern Ontario riding

His previous electoral attempt was as miserable a failure as his broadcasting career.
 

Don't know him at all, but he wrote a bio on Poilievre so perhaps he has the boss's support.
 

SOWNY » Golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez Dies. What Does That Have To Do With Radio? » August 9, 2024 9:53 pm

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   As a former CP'er, I think that David Onley story is awful.  I recently texted CFRB when their newscaster announced the death of former AG and Chief Justice Roy McMurtee.  Maybe someone else there also heard it, because he got it right the next hour.

SOWNY » Joe Bowen Re-Ups With Leafs For Another Year » July 27, 2024 11:22 am

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  Thanks for the warning.  I'll do my best to not listen to the screaming for another season.

SOWNY » CTV: Don't explain or apologize » June 27, 2024 6:48 pm

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RadioAaron wrote:

I can't imagine it's live, as it has to be ready by 4:30 for the Atlantic feed.

  That makes sense.  I guess it was a control room error.

SOWNY » CTV: Don't explain or apologize » June 27, 2024 6:33 pm

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  On Sandy Rinaldo's national newscast Thursday at 5:30 on CTV, they aired a report about an Edmonton couple trying to bring their adopted daughter to Canada from the Philippines. As they were getting to the part about the latest complication in the story (the girl has a non-cancerous tumor), the signal abruptly switched to at least 4 consecutive ads. When Sandi returned, she started on another story.  No mention of what appeared to be a major screw-up. Would this have been a control room error, or a bad timer? 
   But Sandi mde no mention of the problem in the remaining minutes of the show.  She likely wasn't even aware of it -- if it was even live.  
   

SOWNY » U.S. Radio Hall of Fame » June 24, 2024 12:30 am

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Jaime Jarrin has been the LA Dodgers' Spanish play-by-play announcer for decades.

SOWNY » Exactly 32 Years Ago Today, Tonight Had No Tomorrow » May 24, 2024 5:27 pm

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newsguy1 wrote:

The apocryphal Tonight Show incident with Zsa Zsa Gabor and her cat is a wellspring for one of the greatest "manufactured memories" in modern popular culture. No matter how many millions of people swear they were watching the Tonight Show when the exchange below involving Zsa Zsa's cat and Johnny's supposedly quick (and dirty) comeback took place, it simply didn't happen:The story went that Gabor appeared in the show with a cat on her lap and asked Johnny if he would like to pet her pussy.
He supposedly replied, "I would if you'd get that cat off your lap."
Of course anybody who knew anything about the Tonight Show would know it was taped at 3pm in the afternoon, so it was impossible that the cat remark would ever have been allowed on the nighttime telecast.

    II was at a Tonight Show taping (I think in 1989) when Jane Fonda asked Johnny if that story was true.  (I also heard Raquel Welch in that story over the years.)  Johnny first said if that happened, he would remember it.  When the audience finally stopped laughing (and Johnny gave the camera that little boy look he was so good at), Johnny called the story "apocryphal."  I believe the Fonda exchange is in the "Best of Carson" video set.  

SOWNY » Toronto Awarded 14th WNBA Expansion Franchise » May 10, 2024 11:14 pm

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I doubt Larry Tannenbaum and the WNBA brass are remotely concerned at the lack of interest from many of those commenting here. We are about as far as possible from being the WNBA's target audience. This will be terrific for basketball in Canada.

SOWNY » Olivia Chow Has A Role On Law & Order Toronto » May 3, 2024 9:48 pm

dieter
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   I guess this was a bit different, but the Romper Room kids went to Ottawa sometime in the 70s or 80s, and met Pierre Trudeau.

SOWNY » At 92, Dan Rather Finally Returns To CBS News » April 29, 2024 9:29 am

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newsguy1 wrote:

Yes, yes we know it was Walter Cronkite who anchored the assassination of Kennedy, but Rather was the reporter on the ground.
In his book Rather also revealed the terror he felt when he reported the shooting, because it was Rather who called the hospital and asked about the president's condition and was told JKF was dead.
Rather then went on CBS to report what he had been told.
He writes about how after that a cold chill went through his body and he felt sick because he realized he did not confirm who he spoke to on the phone at the hospital.
He wrote how he realized his mistake and knew that if he was wrong and he had spoken to some random person, his career would be over.
So in a perverse kind of way it was actually good for Rather's career that Kennedy was indeed dead.

 

I once read that Rather spoke to a priest at the hospital.

SOWNY » The latest poor job by Nathan Downer and CTV Toronto » April 25, 2024 8:01 pm

dieter
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newsguy1 wrote:

They had no Brier warning.(da dum)
Thank you, I'll be here all week.

Good one!

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