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SOWNY » What Are You Doing Christmas Day? Chances Are Watching The NFL X2 » Yesterday 12:54 am

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One of the greatest games in NFL history was played on Xmas Day in 1971 -- Miami's playoff win over Kansas City in double overtime. The resulting outcry from all the holy rollers caused the NFL to stay away from Dec 25 for nearly 50 years. But they have returned in recent years, and somehow the planet has survived.

SOWNY » Radio Covers Mulroney's Death Quite Well With Very Little Prep Time » March 1, 2024 12:22 am

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Pierre Poilievre is calling Mulroney "Canada’s greatest statesman." Among other things, PP credits Brian for improving Canada’s finances. That was largely due to bringing in the GST. Would PP have supported that?

SOWNY » It Was 60 Years Ago Today… » February 9, 2024 8:30 pm

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I seem to remember seeing a show about a Beatles appearance which included a segment on the acts which had to follow the Fab Four. On the video, you can hear the audience still buzzing and even screaming a bit during one of those performances. A Google search says magician Fred Kaps followed the Beatles' first song, while an acrobatic group called Welles and the Four Fays followed them later. It's likely the latter I'm talking about. Ed apparently felt so bad for them, he booked them once or twice more.

SOWNY » CFRB car radio interference » February 8, 2024 7:30 pm

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   I know this is a strange question on Bell "Let's Fire People" Day, but here goes.  When I turn on CFRB in my car radio (I know -- big mistake to hear Agar the Horrible, Fiona, Kars for Kids, Frank Leo, etc), I get a whistling type of interference in my speakers.  This doesn't happen with any other station, so I don't think it's the car radio.  Any suggestions on the cause and how to get rid of it?

SOWNY » An Unbelievable Trip Back To A Far Less Politically Correct Time On TV » January 29, 2024 2:42 pm

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  Abe Burrows was a Broadway legend whose credits included the books for Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.  His son, James Burrows, is a famed TV director who worked on The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, Frazier, Friends, Will and Grace, Third Rock From the Sun and The Big Bang Theory.  But that game show sounds like a real jarring experience in this era.
 

SOWNY » Famed Broadcaster Is One Reason Tennis Balls Are Yellow » January 23, 2024 12:27 am

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Maybo wrote:

And Oakland A’s owner Charlie Finley pushed for orange baseballs for night games. Never caught on.

Neither did the Seals' white skates.

SOWNY » Another Frustratingly Cloudy Forecast From CTV News » January 23, 2024 12:24 am

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Lyndsey posted the baby photo on Instagram just before Christmas.  

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1R73POAhPd/

SOWNY » See The First "Law & Order: Toronto" Trailer » January 21, 2024 10:44 am

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   Here's a Toronto Life Q & A from a few months ago with Law and Order Toronto showrunner Tassie Cameron.  She's the daughter of Stevie Cameron.

https://torontolife.com/city/the-episodes-are-based-on-real-crime-headlines-meet-the-showrunner-behind-the-new-law-order-toronto/

SOWNY » Spence Diamonds Ads » January 11, 2024 1:44 am

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The good news is that Spence Diamonds has apparently smothered that scream, which is bad enough to trigger PTSD from their ads.
   But the bad news is that their ads remain among the worst on the air waves. Perhaps they'll soon make a new one in which Fiona is forced to row home solo across the Atlantic.

SOWNY » The War on Disco on PBS » January 8, 2024 6:10 pm

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You're welcome. Tonight's the night. 9 pm on PBS Buffalo.

SOWNY » The War on Disco on PBS » November 27, 2023 5:18 pm

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   Word from WNED (PBS Buffalo) is that it will air The War on Disco on Monday, January 8th at 9 pm.   As many of you have figured out, the PBS emails advertising shows you can stream don't apply to us north of the border -- they can't be streamed here off their website.  Apparently Buffalo and other border stations have been after the PBS pooh-bas to add that note to those emails, but to no avail so far.

SOWNY » The Talk Show Guests You'd Rather Not Hear » November 14, 2023 9:44 pm

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Deb Hutton acted as the enforcer in Mike Harris's office, screaming at backbenchers who saw the lack of common sense in the Common Sense Revolution. To put it mildly, she was loathed by the caucus.

SOWNY » The Spence Scream » November 13, 2023 11:53 am

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I know I'm not alone here in detesting the scream in the Spence Diamonds commercials. But it could be that I won't have to turn my radio down or off when those ads come on. I have not heard the scream the last few times the ads have aired. Hopefully they will never bring it back. The ads are still stupid, but at least they're not as grating on the nerves.

SOWNY » Bell Adding 5:30 PM Edition Of CTV National News » November 8, 2023 10:59 pm

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Why is CTV doing this?  To compete with Global National, even though they're on at different times?  Is there that much demand from their audience for more national and international stories during the supper period?  Or, are they spending more on news to meet a licence condition?

SOWNY » Bob McCown on impact of worsening strokes » November 8, 2023 12:21 am

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   Among the takeaways from this story -- McCown has only slightly cut his tobacco intake.  I know it's a tough habit to kick, but smoking after 2 serious strokes, and some minor ones, is not a good idea.
 

SOWNY » Why Do These Newscasts Insist On Doing This? » November 8, 2023 12:18 am

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   This topic sure generated a lot of reaction!  I'm only going to add that Lloyd Robertson was also a huge fan of the Royals.

SOWNY » More Praise For CTV's Vassy Kapelos » November 6, 2023 12:18 am

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Agreed. Vassy is excellent. Her panel discussions are also very good.
   As with all good interviewers, you know a zinger is coming when she says, "But with all due respect..."

SOWNY » Reshmi 1010 Bad Attitude » November 3, 2023 11:06 pm

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Mr magoogain wrote:

She reminds me of my bitchy aunt that think she knows everything and demeans anyone who disagrees.

How much time does she have left on her contract. Can’t end soon enough

    I guess that means Jerry Agar is everyone's bitchy uncle who knows everything and demeans anyone who disagrees.  
 

SOWNY » CTV Toronto: Weather Or Not » November 3, 2023 11:03 pm

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  CTV Toronto also makes it tough to follow the weather forecast when Jessica Smith does it -- mostly on weekends. She talks far too fast.

SOWNY » How Ex-Fan590's "Stormin'" Norman Rumack Survived 3 Suicide Attempts » November 1, 2023 3:11 pm

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Yes, I did hear him a few times -- enough to decide I wasn't a fan. I actually remember hearing him the night of Joe Carter's HR, rubbing it in the face of someone from Philly by playing the Tom Cheek call. But I don't remember hearing the hammerhead thing ever.

SOWNY » How Ex-Fan590's "Stormin'" Norman Rumack Survived 3 Suicide Attempts » October 31, 2023 11:15 pm

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I wish Norman nothing but the best. But I was not a fan of his on-air homer act.  Obviously I was not in the target demographic. I guess that's why I never heard of his Hammerhead Alert slogan, and have never seen even one of those T-shirts. It must have been the other half of the city which wore them.

SOWNY » PP eats an apple » October 22, 2023 10:12 am

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   I haven't seen any discussion here about Pierre Poilievre and his apple.  The right-wing media here and in other countries has turned PP into a hero for his apple-munching chat with an Okanagan news service editor.  I'm not a PP fan at all.  But IMHO, the editor didn't do a very good job here.  One thing I've seen from smart right-wing media haters like PP and Ron DeSantis is that they jump on any journalist who paraphrases their past comments by retorting (accurately) they didn't say that.  You need to be prepared with exact quotes when you tackle guys like this.  What's does the panel of experts think?

SOWNY » Billboard Unveils Best 500 Pop Songs In Its "Hot 100" History » October 22, 2023 10:01 am

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  I scored 46% with a huge number of guesses.

SOWNY » Trivia Twits » October 20, 2023 12:09 pm

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  It's not always that bad.  Yesterday on The Rush, the contestants got all 7 questions including the tiebreaker.

SOWNY » A Look Back At The Best Primetime Lineup In The History Of Television » October 18, 2023 11:36 pm

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CBC carried a lot of those Saturday shows, but on different nights because of Hockey Night in Canada.

SOWNY » Where Are The "Jack Dennett" Newspeople When We Need Them? » October 11, 2023 9:06 pm

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  I stand to be corrected, but the CBC policy on calling people terrorists is not new.  It first came from longtime news director Tony Burman, who was no fan of Israel.  Neither was Neil McDonald, their longtime Middle East correspondent.  McDonald once led an attempt to get foreign news agencies to boycott some type of Israeli government event.

SOWNY » An EYE for an AY » October 5, 2023 11:13 pm

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   Vassy Kapelos, who really ought to have known better, made the same mistake a few times last Monday on her CFRB show.  She seemed to get it right after an interview with people from B'nai Brith and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.  
   Speaking of the latter, the initial CTV report last Sunday was done by a reporter in North Bay (the former Speaker's riding) and he called it WISE'-en-thal.  I guess there was no one around in the network newsroom to correct him.

SOWNY » The War on Disco on PBS » October 3, 2023 6:07 pm

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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/war-disco/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7859944

   Let's hear which side you were on during the War on Disco.  An episode of the PBS series "The American Experience," premiering October 30th, looks at that 1970s culture war.  The war came to a head on July 12, 1979 on Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park.

 

SOWNY » CFTO’s 11:30 PM weather » September 30, 2023 11:26 pm

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  Jessica Smith may be a nice woman who looks good on camera.  But she talks far too fast.  It's very hard to understand anything she says.  Slow down, girl.  And, I agree with Radiowiz -- I don't understand why TSN doesn't do sports for them, and I guess the same should go for The Weather Network.  It leads to moments like the one I posted about months ago, when Zaraida Alman told us an NHL team scored 2 points in the final quarter to beat the Leafs. 

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