BowmanvilleBob wrote:

Somewhere I still have an audio file of some kid reading the weekend news in New Brunswick trying to pronounce “Shi’ite clerics” relating to a piece of copy on Iran. It didn’t end well.

The pilot of Murphy Brown made this joke (Miss America turned broadcaster Corky has to ask how it’s pronounced).

Bob on the exurban morning show is really engaging with the music, something these stations scarcely did in the MyFM era, except for their Sunday morning oldies show. Welcome shift!

Three of the four exurban stations were MyFM stations owned by My Broadcasting. I listened regularly to Orangeville and occasionally to another.

They had been “cookie-cutter” stations all along with out-of-market announcing shared with other MyFM AC stations across Ontario, except for local news and remotes. Bolton has a separate history. Local Radio Lab acquired it not from My Broadcasting but from Vista Radio. But by the end I think Vista Radio was also running it as a cookie-cutter of their Moose FM.

Now at least these four West GTA exurbs stations will get music and announcer breaks programmed for that cluster and that cluster alone, and still local news. It’s not golden age radio but it’s not the worst.