I remember reading an article about the 1960's series "The Fugitive". There were 30 hour-long (52 minute) episodes per season and David Janssen, being in almost every scene, was near exhaustion at the end of each season.
 

New episodes from January to June only has been the norm for a few years now.

RadioActive wrote:

If you're a fan of CBC Radio's "Under The Influence" about advertising, you're going to be in for a long wait for the next word from your sponsor. The last episode of the season aired Thursday, with the traditional "Listeners Questions" segment. 


The show will return but if previous seasons are any indication, it will be a long time until you hear a new episode. Unlike many shows that return in the fall, this one isn't likely to be back on air until sometime in January - around seven months from now. There may be reruns in the timeslot until then, but that's an awfully long time to not have any fresh shows. 

The good news is the show has been renewed and will back eventually. 

Being "forced", it was undoubtedly sincere.

RadioActive wrote:

It was a comment made about "roofies" that got the veteran Hockey Night In Canada broadcaster in trouble - and he was later forced to apologize for it. 

Ron MacLean forced to apologize during Stanley Cup broadcast

I believe that was Avery Schreiber.

Paul Jeffries wrote:

I used to get him mixed up with the guy that did the Doritos commercials back in the '70s and '80s.

RIP, Mr, Shalit.
PJ

This video addresses the often weird Amazon vendor names.

https://youtu.be/4UrqlMfwUC4?si=tlWr8b8_81bVG2Uj

Binson Echorec wrote:

What is "SWOFY" please?

With all respect RA, I would guess that anyone who urgently needs to know the weather forecast isn't waiting for it on the noon or 6 PM newscast, OR there are fewer and fewer of these people as time passes. 

With sites like The Weather Network, Environment Canada, and windy.com waiting until the bottom of the hour (or whenever it usually ) isn't necessary.

RadioActive wrote:

In the end, all I'm really asking is not to delay the weather or some other key component of a newscast for fluff. It's irritating to viewers who depend on that kind of information. And yes, some may find it interesting, although for the life of me, I have no idea why. But put it lower in the newscast. There's absolutely no reason to put it so high in the line-up. 

That was the episode with the salt vampire. It really freaked me out as a kid.

RadioActive wrote:

Never heard this story before, but apparently when NBC decided to air the very first Star Trek in 1966, they picked the one episode the cast disliked the most. In a "who knew?" revelation, the network was afraid that some of the better sci fi plots they did would be too offputting to a general audience who had never seen a show like it before, so they picked the blandest and easiest one to relate to. 

The result was "Man Trap," a script that most of the cast, including William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, thought was one of the weakest of all the scripts in Season

I'd have to nominate "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles as the all-timeone hit wonder.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/lowell-green-dead-at-89

Any text or prose I've read that's been produced by AI has been uniformly awful.

I think that people who desire well-written books and articles will still seek out those authored by humans. I hope there's enough of them to sustain that business. 

Her Instragram account: https://www.instagram.com/carissacodel/

RadioActive wrote:

I loved Seinfeld, but have never seen a single episode of Trailer Park Boys. The subject just doesn't interest me. I tried to watch Schitt's Creek, which won a record nine Emmys in 2020. But I was done after two episodes. It just didn't make me laugh. It just shows how subjective comedy can be.

"Schitt's Creek" was, for me, a slow burn. It took most of season one to hit its stride. 
 

andysradio wrote:

Thanks for posting that. I found it very interesting

 
You're welcome.

It's a pretty interesting site. I've watched videos on subjects I never knew I had an interest in. Storm water reclamation?  Sounds great. Bridge nylons? Let's see it.

I find it amazing that Derringer hasn't surfaced at all since this came out in May of 2022.

I expected some kind of "grievance tour" - podcasts, rival stations or something.

Could Corus have made him being silent a condition of the settlement?

I can't say that I've heard any of this on the radio, but I've seen/heard plenty of YouTube videos with text-to-speech narration (which isn't technically AI, but soulless all the same).

It seems pretty easy to catch with weird inflections, or none at all. Strange pronunciations are also an easy tell.