Waze, real time up to date for my route.  I have no interest in any other road other than the ones I require. 

I don't know if I saw it on here yet, but Bob McCowan had a stroke.  He announced it on Twitter.  I used to listen way back when he was on The Fan 1430

"I guess I should let you know that I have had two strokes over the last couple of weeks and have been in hospital since. Can’t walk or talk but am getting better very slowly! Hope to get home and back on the podcast as quick as possible!"

Great news that he is able to return home. All the best Bob!

https://twitter.com/FadooBobcat/status/1677055017096732672


 

Does anyone remember James St James, the Real Jimmy Hollywood? I used to love his segments. I remember hearing him on various stations in the area.

What ever happened to him?

Fun Tweet this morning....

"Admonished by a listener - in a private DM - for saying "you guys" on the radio: "You is still singular AND plural, otherwise “you both”. CBC should be.... a language leader." Love the care for words. My question: is a little informality OK in unscripted chats, even on CBC?"


https://twitter.com/ianhanomansing/status/1520834633772199938

Clearly I have never worked in radio,  but minimum wage is only $15 in Ontario.  I never understood why radio owners would not pay minimum wage to anyone willing to do it, instead of running a repeat of a show.  A three hour show could only pay $45 for the host, and the producer  "pushing all the buttons"   Three hour live show, $90 in payroll costs.  The fixed costs would be the same whether you have a live host or not, wouldnt it?

Clearly I do not understand the business, can someone please help me out?

 

Speaking of WKRP, the WKRP-Cast podcast posted something today that is way over my understanding, but maybe you guys might like it.
[i]"​TECHNICAL DETAILS: If you're a fan (and, hey, if you're on this page, we're guessing you're a FAN!) of WKRP, you've probably noticed the slight pre-echo you can hear from Mimsie. Mimsie is the MTM "Lion" who appears at the absolute end of every WKRP episode. If you listen carefully, you can hear what sounds like a faint echo of Mimsie's 'meow' just a second or less before it happens.
Ever wonder why that's there? This is an artifact of the videotape Hugh Wilson was forced to shoot on in order to get cheap music rights. Way back in the old days, if you owned reel-to-reel tape, it was recommended that you store your tapes in a "played" position. This meant you had to rewind before you wanted to listen to a tape. The reason for this was to prevent the same kind of echo we are hearing from Mimsie.
Tape, both audio and video, is coated with a magnetic oxide. The oxide is highly susceptible to tiny magnetic fields. When a tape is being recorded, the magnetic field from the record head is placing the oxide in specific patterns. Later, when you play it back, the read head will interpret those patterns as sound. Those patterns are not fixed or locked in any way. The oxide is still mobile and could be moved into other patterns. This is why you can record over previously recorded tape.
When a tape is in the "ready to play" position, the oxide that passes over the tape head has been pressed up against the layer below it...possibly for a long time. The layer of tape below, the one that will play just a second or less later, can sometimes have a strong enough magnetic field to imprint on the outer layer of tape. In the case of Mimsie, the spot where her 'meow' falls is in an area of the tape where there isn't a lot of other content. It's a relatively quiet spot right before her meow. Since the WKRP source tapes have been stored in the "ready t

Hey Forward Power, you are not alone. 

Forward Power wrote:

Bingo.  As someone who has lived with depression, anxiety and occasional panic attacks over the last ten years, I have hated this campaign since day one.  Charlie described it perfectly, and that's how it has always been for this bottom-of-the-barrel, piece of garbage conglomerate that does this country absolutely no good.  Running this campaign this year is completely inappropriate and then some, especially given how so many of us in Ontario are reaching absolute rock bottom due to current events and are bound to totally explode upon the smallest trigger.

Seriously, if Bell is once again going to talk the talk and not actually walk the walk, this whole nightmare of a campaign will be a massive slap in the face for every Canadian who lives with any mental illness or mood disorder.  Same if anybody takes to social media and parrots Bell's messages - if you share the hashtag or any of their Facebook material etc., you are also a virtue-signalling hypocrite and fail to realize how insulting your (and Bell's) empty/meaningless messages are to the 20% or more of us in Canada who live with illnesses such as depression, anxiety disorders, panic disorders, bipolar, schizophrenia, and so on.

If this corporation truly and genuinely gave a rat's arse about the mental health and well-being of all of us, especially their staff, I would expect that they would a) not fire experienced media professionals simply because they're paid too much, and b) fork over a hell of a lot more MH funding than the drop in the bucket that's allotted each year.  A few million bucks a year (that probably has all kinds of conditions and quid pro quo attached to it) won't do a damn thing for Canada's mental health services which, like the rest of our healthcare system, are collapsing around us - they need literally billions of dollars in funding to get anywhere near being able to sufficiently serve the rising number of

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