Mace, you're bringing back some happy memories!

Here are a few that come to mind:

- Jim Ignatowski (Christopher Lloyd) from Cheers. An idiot savant but mostly an idiot.
- Tobias Fünke (David Cross) from Arrested Development. An idiot's idiot. (You're seeing a trend here?)
- George Costanza (Jason Alexander) from Seinfeld. The funniest self-loathing schemer.
- Dwight Schrute (Rain Wilson) from The Office. A man so unaware of himself or is he?
- Jack Jarvis, Esq and Victor McDade (Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill) from Still Game from The Comedy Unit / BBC Scotland. They two play Glaswegian pensioners. I had to use sub-titles to understand them and, when I did, it was very, very funny.

I'd watch reboots of any of these shows in a minute.

Tomas Barlow wrote:

peter wrote:

LB - I made 2 statements.
Your comment didn't specify which statement made you curious.
I think the pertinent question is why would you be curious at all about my comment?  
It's my opinion.
I stated it and stick by both statements

Wow. Get over yourself. It’s radio discussion board. If you don’t want to discuss anything, start a blog without a comment section and talk to yourself.
You said Ben Wagner was awful. Not average, not below average. Awful. That’s a strong opinion. He’s obviously curious as to what you didn’t like. You know, THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THIS BOARD?
If you aren’t too offended at someone not accepting your opinion as the word of the Lord Almighty, would you care to expand on your original thought, or are you too infallible to engage with us mere mortals?

Tomas and peter, it's no big deal. There was no bad intent in my question.

I thought Wagner was fine so I was curious to know why peter felt that way. If nothing else, Wagner's ability to do many broadcasts by himself - 3 to 4 hours - should be admired, IMHO.

As for Schulman, he's young. He'll get there.

Neither of you know me, however, I'm never one for a p*ssing match. Life's too short for that.

I went to visit a relative in a hospital. I was really surprised that the hospital gift shop didn't sell newspapers. 

Muffaraw Joe, I havn't seen you on the board in a while! 

Yes, there does seem to be more fundraising at the station. I guess it's a sign of the times with people having less disposable income to give away. I've not bought a 50-50 but I do give them a very modest donation every month.

Would it work elsewhere? Yes, but I do wonder when we'll hit "peak betting".

RadioAaron wrote:

-I'm shocked to see Zoomer as a buyer. Radio has been a money-loser for them for a while now. I guess Owen Sound becomes Classical?

They already have a Classical FM transmitter in Collingwood. That's less than 60 km away. Would the signal reach there? If so, maybe Owen Sound becomes Zoomer Radio north?

Sad news. Connie Sinclair has died of cancer.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/connie-sinclair-cbc-radio-newsreader-dies-1.7104696?cmp=rss

She was the partner of Classical FM afternoon drive host Mark Wigmore.
 

I put on Google Maps and do whatever the voice says. If not that, 680 News.

^ Agreed. Very funny.

"For more than 80 years the beeps and tones of the National Research Council (NRC) time signal have connected Canadians at exactly 1 p.m. But as of Monday, CBC Radio One audiences won't be listening for the beginning of the long dash — they'll have listened to the end of it."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/cbc-stops-broadcasting-national-research-council-long-dash-time-signal-1.6988903?cmp=rss

 

RadioActive wrote:

Whoever else they're hiring (and there are promises of a news and sports team), they claim all of them work and live in the St. Catharines/Niagara area. Why, then, is their listed phone number in the 416 area code

I don't think area codes matter much anymore. Most carriers offer Canada wide calling as part of their plans. I have a friend living in VIctoria who kept her 416 number.
 

I read somewhere that the entire season is taped in just 6 weeks. After that, Pat and Vanna go on an extended promotional tour. Those quick clips at the end of the show are from that tour. It will be a sweet gig for someone.

I've recently changed my Linux distribution from Ubuntu to Linux Mint. I'll be sure to add that one to my .font directory.

ig wrote:

Leslieville Bill wrote:

My personal favourite? Gerry [Thunderbird, Space 199] Anderson's UFO from 1970. I love the Hammond B-3 organ.

I know this puts 'geek' into a whole new level but if you can have a favourite font, that isn't Helvetica, the one on the sped-up selectric in this clip was mine.  Called  'Orator' it was _the_ newsroom font for scripts etc.

https://www.wfonts.com/font/orator

The other is Serpentine, if you want to re-live 1980's Dubner or Chryon days .  I believe TSN used to use this extensively, among many others.

https://freefontsfamily.com/serpentine-font-free/

 

I can't wait for the campaign theme song.

The best comment on Twitter was, "Roger's is committed to owning everything and making it terrible, gotta admire their commitment."

There wasn't a "No, Canada needs an elected head of state" so I chose "No, it's way too long".