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SOWNY » Kevin Newman's latest in the Star » March 23, 2024 5:33 pm

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I do wonder if maybe W5 wouldn't have benefited more from a 60 Minutes type approach... I've found that 60 Min will do a mix of dark/gloomy stories and then something more optimistic (cute animal story, interview with a famous celebrity, positive story about future technology, etc). 

Whenever I see promos for W5, it's usually a dark depressing story about human trafficking, injustice against some undeserving victim, environmental disaster, serial killers, etc. It's not enticing to promote a W5 story during the 6pm newscast which is already filled with depressing news. Viewers are not going to clamour for more bad news, no matter how important or insightful it might be.

 

SOWNY » Melanie Ng Returns To City TV - But Not On Air » March 14, 2024 2:12 pm

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Inflation, that's probably what happened. Who can afford to have kids and pay for them given the current climate of price gouging by the supermarkets?  Can't rely on just one partner to be the sole income provider any more these days.
 

SOWNY » Ben Mulroney Tears Up Talking About His Late Dad On AM640 » March 5, 2024 12:48 pm

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He also appeared live on Global's The Morning Show today to discuss his late father.

SOWNY » Richard Southern absent from CityNews at 6 » February 23, 2024 4:01 pm

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Well there's probably someone on this forum who works at City and can just casually check as to why Ritchie mysteriously vanished from the airwaves and isn't doing his popular segment with Erica any more.

He got taken off the air shortly after his blistering story on the ServiceOntario owner who was a dedicated lifelong supporter of the PCs until they canned her business to give it to Staples. "I've stuck by them my whole life. I'm finally done."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWjDmio_GA

Now in defense of Rogers, they'd have pulled this story off their youtube channel if it really had caused a major fit with Fordie boy and he'd put pressure on Rogers to shut him up. The fact that it's still up there might suggest it wasn't the cause (or just getting Richard to stop going after Ford on air was enough to send a message).

At any rate, the dual Ritchie and Erica segments at 5:25 and 6:37pm were easily the highlights of the CityNews broadcast, any excuse to stop those was a stupid decision from someone up top.

 

SOWNY » Richard Southern absent from CityNews at 6 » February 22, 2024 5:33 pm

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Richard Southern is still posting about DoFo's shit government policies on Twitter, including the latest about the growing Staples/Service Ontario debacle. Does Fordie boy have friends in charge of Rogers? That could be the reason why he's been muzzled and possibly made an example of.

SOWNY » Alex Pierson Returning To AM640 On Monday » February 2, 2024 11:05 pm

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Alex seems awfully young to be getting hip replacement surgery (this is assuming she was not involved in some kind of car accident). I recall that during her time on the wretched "Sun News Network" she was an avid fan of working out with weights. She's a very tiny woman, in hindsight I do wonder if overdoing it may have taken a toll on her lower body.

I have a family member who really went overboard lifting heavy weights as a teenager (and stupidly not wearing a weight belt) and has spent most of his life now living with constant back pain. Ironically he can no longer even lift a slightly heavy cardboard box any more due to the injury from those early days of doing weights.

 

SOWNY » CBC -- WTF?? » November 18, 2023 4:39 am

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The Conservatives always underestimate Trudeau, and always end up humiliated by him. Remember that hilarious boxing fight where the Cons thought Trudeau would get knocked on his butt and instead JT sent their guy down to the mat in laughably embarassing fashion with little effort? Sun News sure does, they shut up really fast after that bout and then thankfully their "news station" went away a few years later to no one's regret.
I'm not even a big fan of JT, but I'll take him over any Conservative nutbar leader (Harper, Pollievre, Danielle Smith, etc).  The crazies are all on the right, both here and down south.

 

SOWNY » Marianne Dimain Leaves Global After 13 Years » October 22, 2023 4:32 pm

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She did a live shoot during the morning show many years ago where she danced on a set of giant piano keys just like in the movie "Big".  I laughed, always did enjoy her work since then. Wish her well on her new career direction.

SOWNY » Station Reporter Proposes To Anchor During Live Newscast » August 23, 2023 10:23 pm

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CTV did the same back when anchor Michelle Dube got married showing footage from her wedding, so I think it's just a way to convey to the audiences that media people are just like everyone else and makes them more relatable. That said, I don't think I'd really want to see my newscast interrupted by a live wedding proposal quite frankly.

SOWNY » Sharp-eyed reporting on CTV Toronto » August 3, 2023 11:48 am

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I've been very impressed with Jon's investigative reporting for CTV. He's got a bright future ahead of him.

SOWNY » Bell Cuts 1,300, Closes 6 Stns., Including CJBK, Selling CKOC & CHAM » June 17, 2023 12:43 pm

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Interesting if true, someone getting laid off by Bell that no one will particularly miss:

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https://twitter.com/politicsfisher/status/1670058647970275328

Robert Fisher            @politicsfisher

Hearing that among the 1300 cuts @BellMedia this wk was Michael Melling who was behind the @LisaLaFlamme_ removal. The cuts also reportedly affected those CTV news pple involved in the discredited @patrickbrownont story.
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SOWNY » Vassy Kapelos Impresses As New "Question Period" Host » May 10, 2023 8:52 am

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For anyone who follows her Insta, she's VERY self-deprecating and regularly posts embarassing photos of herself (almost to a fault, as after a time I genuinely find myself wishing she'd give herself a bit more praise for her own accomplishments). It's a good reminder that even if your job is quite a serious one, not to take yourself too seriously.
 

SOWNY » Lisa LaFlamme Gets Standing Ovation Tuesday Night » April 14, 2023 1:14 pm

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I believe Lisa is confirmed for the coronation, Sid mentioned Lisa would be handling it for Rogers on today's Breakfast Television.

SOWNY » Austin Delaney Retires » March 27, 2023 9:12 pm

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Always liked him. Very professional and hard working. Wish him well.

SOWNY » Other MIA's » December 20, 2022 11:35 pm

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The commenters seem to be suggesting that she got the boot due to age, not unlike Lisa LaFlamme.  I guess Bell is only hiring young, hot women for all of their on-air roles.
 

SOWNY » TV Commercial Runs In French On Global » November 3, 2022 10:53 am

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The same thing happened on Global's The Morning Show at 9am this morning. Just a white screen with the Global logo during the commercial breaks for the hour.  Probably lost a lot of money for the show by running "ad-free".
 

SOWNY » CTV Toronto & Global Both Skip Noon News » October 1, 2022 1:44 pm

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Both CTV's lead anchors (Michelle Dube and Nathan Downer) were apparently given the entire day off, since neither of them anchored the 6pm newscast.
 

SOWNY » Lisa LaFlamme To Anchor CityNews Coverage Of Queen's Passing » September 20, 2022 12:24 am

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She's definitely too high-brow for City, the closest I can think of would be CBC... 

SOWNY » Michelle Jobin CTV Weather » September 6, 2022 11:47 pm

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John D wrote:

Apparently she was able to say goodbye on air, But I missed it.

She didn't get a chance to say goodbye.  CTV News at 6pm actually botched it completely by forgetting about it being her last day until the end music was already playing and then they took out the flowers and bottle to hand it to her as the music played them off the air, laughing at their fumble.


 

SOWNY » Michelle Jobin Gets Nice Send-Off As CTV Toronto Weather Gig Ends » August 30, 2022 12:50 am

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For anyone who saw the end of the 6pm show, it was rather baffling. Michelle finished the final weather update, the anchors said their goodbyes to the audience, the camera is pulling away, end music is playing, THEN both anchors suddenly pull out flowers and a bottle to hand to Michelle.as the camera cuts back to them in close-up. 

For a moment it looked like they were going to cut back to vocals and says a proper farewell, but the broadcast just ended.  They either didn't have enough air time to squeeze in the goodbye or more likely, both anchors forgot this was her last appearance on the 6pm and scrambled too late to give her the flowers and booze, before it went to black.

 

SOWNY » Farah Nasser swallows a fly while anchoring Global National » August 30, 2022 12:39 am

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Some humor posted by Farah on twitter:

https://twitter.com/FarahNasser/status/1564402184472649728

Looks like it's not just Ford who is gobbling the insects up at inopportune moments.  She kept her composure despite what I'm sure would've led anyone else to shout "Holy Christ!  I just swallowed a fly!" 
 

SOWNY » This just in: Melling on immediate leave of absence » August 26, 2022 7:10 pm

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This won't blow over until he's actually terminated...  

Did anyone else notice both CP24 and Global News running stories tonight warning companies like Wendys should be careful not to jump on the bandwagon lest it hurt their own corporate image?  Is Bell trying to discourage other companies from keeping alive the Lisa LaFlamme debacle?


 

SOWNY » Global Toronto's Longtime Weekend Weather Presenter Has Left » August 25, 2022 4:58 pm

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They always seem to leave for jobs at PR or marketing firms... 

SOWNY » Lisa LaFlamme out at CTV » August 19, 2022 8:02 pm

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https://twitter.com/BellMediaPR/status/1560601246251323392

There really is nothing more enjoyable than seeing Bell post their spin onto twitter and then watching the angry reaction from over 2400 people who are reaming them up the arse...

 

SOWNY » Lisa LaFlamme out at CTV » August 18, 2022 5:04 pm

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Makes total sense to me why she declined.  She'd have been restricted about what she could say on that final newscast, she certainly could not say "A dickwad Bell executive didn't like that I let my real hair color appear on TV and I had to fight constantly to get the funding to maintain a quality newscast and finally he decided he didn't like a woman talking back to him so he fired me because he's an insecure piece of shit human being."

Twitter and Instagram?  Say whatever you want without any executive censoring you. If she'd done the final CTV newscast and been all glowing and sentimental on-air, then turned around a day later and told the real truth on twitter, people might have seen her as two-faced.



 

SOWNY » Lisa LaFlamme out at CTV » August 15, 2022 8:14 pm

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Initially I thought maybe it was ageism, but then I saw someone on twitter post this:
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Recent national anchor departures:

2011 - Lloyd Robertson retires as CTV anchor at age 77
2017- Peter Mansbridge retires as CBC anchor at age 69
2022- Lisa LaFlamme contract cancelled by CTV at age 58.
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So yeah, probably more of a money thing, if they'd renewed her contract she'd made more $ so why do that when you can bring in a cheaper replacement. 

 

SOWNY » Jim Richards Remains Absent But Alex Pierson Still In The Running » August 5, 2022 6:38 am

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Not sure what this means for Alex's return but she's still being mentioned in updates for her show...

https://bayobserver.ca/new-weekday-afternoon-show-for-900-chml/

New weekday afternoon show for 900 CHML
Aug 4 2022

Changes will be coming to the afternoon program lineup at CHML effective Monday August 8. Alan Carter and Jeff McArthur move away from their radio shows to focus on their roles at Global News. Carter has been heard in the noon – 1 p.m. time slot, in addition to anchoring Global News at 5:30 and 6 in Toronto, while McArthur has been hosting from 1 – 3 p.m. while also co-hosting Global’s The Morning Show. Both shows were simulcast to AM980 (CFPL-AM) London and AM 900 CHML Hamilton.

The new schedule sees Kelly Cutrara move into the noon to 3 p.m. time slot here in Hamilton.

Alex Pierson will transition into Cutrara’s former 9 a.m. to noon slot on 640, moving up from evenings. CHML Program Director Jeff Story told theBay Observer that a permanent host for Alex Pearson’s 8-10pm (On Point) on CHML will be announced at a later date.

 

SOWNY » Elon Musk Deal To Buy Twitter Dead? » July 8, 2022 11:35 pm

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Personally I think he cancelled the deal just to distract from the other news that he slept with and knocked up one of his top executives.  The guy is a first-class grifter, I knew he wasn't serious about the deal, it's just another one of his Dodgecoin scams on those dumb enough to follow him.
 

SOWNY » Farrah Nasser » June 7, 2022 4:36 pm

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Just announced by Farah on twitter - she's leaving Global News to anchor Global National on the weekends.


"I’ve been telling stories in the city I call home for 2 decades, now I get to cover the country I love  I've accepted a position as weekend anchor at GlobalNational. I’ll miss my globalnewsto crew but excited to reach a wider, national audience. Elated for next chapter to begin"

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