It blared on my radio first then my cellphone. 🥱

At the rock radio station I worked at we had an assistant production manager who'd always say "Be a-lert, the world needs more lerts." during emergency tests. Needless to say Ken never made it to production manager.

And of course the sentence every Python fan utters the moment something quite terrible or merely mildly annoying happens "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."

With Martin Short spending a great deal of quality time with Meryl Streep, one wonders if she'll attend the inaugural taping of the show.
Sidebar: speaking of Match Game, another odd couple Elizabeth Hurley has hooked up with Billy Ray Cyrus.
Stars, they're just like us! as the fan magazine says.

After the last few months of anxiety/limbo/anxiety created by the short-fingered vulgarian, plus the possibility of a PP gov., a few hours of the right kind of mindless television with a grilled cheese sandwich and a glass of chocolate milk would be very very welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Y2FzDMuJ5pI?si=8Yawz9HqVYSMZbGF
Green Day totally rocking it currently on YouTube  with previous performances from other artists saved and available to watch on the Coachella channel. It's free. It's always cool to see how musicians respond to the challenge of playing live in front of a huge audience.

Green Day's stage presence reminds me how studio bound a lot of the newer Auto-Tune artists are when it comes to performing.

Wouldn't be surprised if some clips from the show end up on radio for Monday's shows.

This will be one of those UTI episodes I listen to more than once.

Blooper reels are the best.

The number of times you'd goof during a read of an in-house radio spot and ask the production guy to not save it and they'd manage to say with a straight face "sure, no problem" only to have it part of the next blooper reel.

A station blooper reel is one of the things I wish I'd kept from my radio days.

The secret to a top notch funny reel is in the editing.

You'd think the marketing departments of the pharmaceutical giants would come up with better names for their inventions. They once created a medicated spray for jock itch and called it "Clutch."
Rybelsus makes me think of RibaldUs.

There are all kinds of rabbit holes to wander down on YT and one of the most fun: all the spoof and parody commercials for drug products.

A few are in questionable taste, pun not intended, like this Ozempic for Ramadan ad from SNL.
https://youtu.be/8-RETLnHNpM?si=MqWh5BK3IQ4R8CU2

This SNL sketch gets the job done and actually does some good by pointing out that the side effects of some medicine can be deadly.
https://youtu.be/VByZc4Hn7pI?si=kzwo_BchTeHTgEbS

They probably have to use up the block of airtime already purchased and are weighing the pros and cons of continuing to use the current itcheration, er, iteration or spend time and money to revamp and redo it.

I'd go for the Monty Python approach. Start off the new spot with a few seconds of the old one then have it suddenly cut off with a crisp voice ordering " Stop this ad." and swing into the new ad, or even a Graham Chapman type voice saying "The people who put this together have been sacked. We now wegovy to this..." and into the new spot with a pleasant, slightly throaty female voice gently extolling the virtues of Wegovy, playing around with the word 'Wegovy.'

All steak and no fries would get pretty boring pretty fast no matter how excellent the steak.

Or to put it another way, Homer Simpson and his unrelenting ability to consume endless donuts nonstop (a la a certain devilish Treehouse of Horror episode) is a rare phenomenon when it comes to humans.

Now if you added other artists covering Elton or the Stones to the playlist that might help.

Unless it's Coldplay's cover of "Lips Like Sugar" by Echo and the Bunnymen. Worst. Cover. Ever

https://x.com/allontheboard/status/1907337636127105033?t=GkW-zz-NldTEbh8elUf7Xg&s=19

a lovely tribute from London.

Mr. Kilmer always reminded me of the young Marlon Brando in his masculine energy and a certain unknowable quality to his personality.

https://youtu.be/BA-1w0vC7S4?si=ncXYtSZfezJ7Dv5n

I haven't seen Maverick yet, above is the last meeting between Mav and Iceman, but how satisfying it must have been for all the producers, actors, directors and crew and Tom Cruise to be able to honor their old friend and colleague.

A good wingman is everything, in movies and in real life.

RIP Val Kilmer

Not surprised RA posted about this woman's "performance."

I've only heard this new irritating as nails on chalkboard, Donald Trump talking, any picture of PP, radio spot twice this morning on 1010 and both times I wanted to lunge for the volume dial.

I loathe the Kars for Kids jingle, am not keen on the single awful note start of Lion King ad and the Spence ads are..well, they're the *Spence ads* and so therefore are aural itching powder but I would rather hear all three of these back to back and throw in a "Mega Tank!" than wince through this newest commercial terror of the airwaves once.

We-go-oy-vey

It's a good bet that 1010's board ops turn down the monitor when the W ad is running.

p.s. am getting a kick out of the new sponsor for 1010's traffic (I think) it's a product to cure erectile disfunction. now they just need to develop and market one to cure politically correct-ile disfunction and the world will be a better place

p.p.s. have not heard the not good very terrible blood donor spot, yet, so that's something to look forward to, thanks Jody, I think?

https://x.com/SimonDingleyTV/status/1906527224104120737?t=a7cHPP_wHH8B2GhUnZfIzg&s=19

With thanks to Simon Dingley for sharing this and Don McLean for capturing the fox paw.

Some CP24 staffer pulled a blank, literally. This effort gives new meaning to "weeking havoc."

How does this even happen!? 🤨

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-46-on-the-coast/clip/16136647-cbc-host-tom-harrington-set-retire-tomorrow

There are a handful of familiar names who've been part of Canada's radio and television history for decades and Tom Harrington is one of them.

From broadcasting at the Atlanta Olympics, building CBC's iconic Marketplace tv show, covering elections and being on the radio reporting the news, his versatility is a given.

After his final Your World Tonight at 6 pm. and almost 44 years in the business, Tom Harrington retired.

Above is a wonderful interview with Tom talking about his career. I was struck by something he said when quoting a player he had interviewed who was retiring that spoke to how Tom also feels about leaving journalism. "I'm not going to miss the game. I'm going to miss the room."

Congratulations on your retirement Mr. Harrington and thank you for all the entertaining, interesting and compelling stories.

Edit: Friday 6:30 pm Tom Harrington made it a point of saying *almost* 44 years during his eloquent sign off on-air just now and it's worth getting right.

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Note to self: buy the darn battery operated transistor radio and a supply of batteries.

If this were 1969, you'd only have to buy a few records from this place and you'd be finished!

Oh wow, Bill Cosby when he was still Bill Cosby, I'd actually get a few of these, there's a Herb Alpert melody playing in my brain right now, thanks RA! 📻😁

Wouldn't it be interesting? ironic? karmic? if this spring there's a large ice storm that stretches from southern Ontario across the border to New York resulting in a substantial Canada/U.S. power outage and the governments of both countries have to work together to get the power delivery systems up and functioning again.

Note to self: buy the darn battery operated transistor radio and a supply of batteries.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-screen-awards-2025-nominees-1.7491909

Good to see Law and Order Toronto and many others get the nod for their work.

Will there be a social media debate re: a certain show or performer should've been nominated?