Hey Dale,

Great hearing these without the digitital artifacts that mine have. I feel safe taking mine down.
Feel free to pop over to the page I linked to and grab the two WEBY promos I have.

Cheers,
     --Peter
 

Aw come on.  How many of us who have been jocks at one time in their lives practice hitting the post in the car when certain songs come on.

But what really blows my mind, and it has happened on more than one occasion, is when my phone gps makes an announcement and finishes just  at the right point to hit the post.  I kid you not. 

It's scary.  Makes me wonder if there is some AI going in the background and the phone's mic is always on.

 

I think it's up to each local station.

I watched the CTV national news with Sandie Rinaldo Sunday night at 10:00 eastern on the CTV news channel.  So, yes, there was a newscast.
 

Well, the Peter Howell theme is actually not a remix, it's a complete re-imagining of the 1960s theme by Delia Derbyshire.  The Howell theme is my favourite as well.

But one has to give lots of credit to the original which was mostly performed using tape loops.

I'm not a big fan of the orchestral version.  Sounds too muddled to me.

What's even more annoying are ads that repeat the phone number several times.  Once, maybe twice, is enough.

I generally consider the trustworthiness of an ad based on the number of times they repeat the phone number.  More than 2, and the scam radar kicks in.
 

Radiowiz wrote:

Peter the K wrote:

With apps like flipp, flyers have become obsolete.  I haven't touched a physical flyer in years.   The few that did arrive went straight into recycling; mainly because the electronic version arrived days earlier.
 

I go mental without the paper version because I like to circle things to remind me what I am looking for.
However, one other factor that killed the print version of the flyer is when Walmart & Others decided not to price match anymore. 
It was a lot easier to quickly show a flyer special (circled) in print than it was to search for it online. 
 

With Flipp, just touch the item on the digital flyer and it's circled.  But unlike regular flyers, there's a place on the app where you can see all the items you've circled together making comparisons simple.

I know it sounds like I'm a shill for them.  It's not perfect but trying it (it's free) gives you a pretty good idea where things have been heading and why companies like Metroland just can't make a go of it anymore.

But ultimately, to each their own.

 

Hansa wrote:

This is a rather remarkable reprise of Some Mothers Do Av Em that was done for charity in 2016. Even if you don't recognize the cameos it's very funny (and there is one cameo you definitely will recognize) and the stunt work is incredible when you consider Crawford, who does his own stunts, was in his early 70s at the time. If you're not familiar with his character of Frank Spencer he is a child-like accident prone innocent evocative of silent film era comedians like Laurel & Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton.

How could I possibly forget Some Mothers do 'Avem 'Em!  Michael Crawford was absolutely brilliant.

The 2016 Reprise was also quite wild.  

Silly piece of trivia.  The rhythm of the theme music for the show is made up of the title spelled out in Morse Code: "S-O-M-E-M-O-T-H-E-R-S-D-O-A-V-E-E-M"

I don't know about the reprise but in the original series, Michael Crawford did his own stunts too.
 

I ran an IT department back then.  The servers (abourt 12 or so) were plugged into a stand-by battery backup and it gave us 45 minutes to gracefully shut the servers down.  Meanwhile, one of the employees, who was the union stewart, was running around the office ranting and raving about how this was Mike Harris' fault.  Strangely enough, she was nowhere to be found when the real reason came to light.

Once the servers were safely put to bed I plugged in a portable radio I had in the office and thanks to CFRB and the incredible coverage of Mark Elliot.

Fortunately, I drove in that day.  However, I didn't realize how difficult it would be to place a call.  I tried calling my wife on the cell phone but the towers were incredibly congested.  All you could do is keep trying until you lucked out.  Eventually, I did and we made arrangements for me to swing by and pick her up -- whenever I got there.  She and a few other people were waiting and we started heading up Yonge Street towards North York.  Needless to say it was long drive.  We got home around 7:00.  There was a nearby meat store that was selling off what product it had dirt cheap just to get it out the door.  We had some nice not so coldcuts and bread for dinner. 

I couldn't believe how quiet everything was.
 

I really don't mean to come off as whining about this butt...

RA posted abut this a day ago with the same broadcast dialogue link.
I frequently see "news" here from people who can't be bothered to read other people's previous posts about the same topic.
 

What AM radio needs are individuals like the late "Ramblin" Lou Schriver who bought WXRL back in 1972 from Stan Jasinski, who founded WUTV channel 29.

This was back in the day when individuals owned radio stations to serve a niche market.  Budgets were tight but as long as they could keep the lights on, they were happy.

And WXRL is still run by the Schriver family.  They have added a 250 watt FM repeater and put the signal on-line (the last station in the Buffalo area to do so) but they're still kicking.

It harkens back to the day when individuals owned radio (and even TV) stations as their own sandboxes where they could play what they wanted, and as long as there was enough money left over at the end of the day, all was good and they were happy.

...But then again, I still haven't won the Lotto Max. 
 

The link on the tweet seems mal-formed, but this should work:

https://www.womenofillrepute.com/john-moore/
 

georgio1 wrote:

...by the late Terry Jacks (may he rest in peace)...

When did this happen?

He appears to be very much alive.
 

betaylored wrote:

Basic fox pas: Wimbledon not Wimbleton

In Kitchener, there is also a Wimbleton Crescent, but no Wimbledon.  Talk about adding to the confusion around here.

Likewise, back in 2009, when I moving back to the area, I used google maps to route me around all the construction.  I almost had a heart attack when I heard it mis-pronounce Weber St.  (it's WEEber not WEBber)  Considering where google maps was developed, that was almost an unforgiveable sin. It's one of many street names the locals from the "folks not from here."  TV folks in K-W are actually coached in the proper pronunciation so they sound more like locals.  Doesn't always work, though.

Google maps has since fixed the pronunciation.

Radiowiz wrote:

It's 2023 not 1969.
We are in a multicultural society now.
People from all over the world live in Toronto today.
There is no reason to do news the way it was done in 1969, just as long as what is said (any which way) is TRUE AND ACCURATE information!! 
That is all that is asked for these days. 
Gone are the days of saying Toronto properly...(etc)

Hogwash!

What ever happened to the concept of the TV personality setting the example by at least pronouncing things properly and using correct grammar?  Back in the day, my 9th grade English teacher would always say "Excetera" and it drove me nuts.  If you're teaching the language, then at least get it right.

Technically, English wasn't my first language but I learned it as a small child, like many do, mostly from watching TV.  Thank god back in 1969 TV announcers spoke using proper English.

Ken Haslam is probobly spinning in his grave.


 

I just got a voicemail on one of my 416 numbers from John Tory shilling for his candidate of choice.

Pitty I haven't lived in the GTA for 3 years.
 

RadioActive wrote:

I'm posting this for a friend who insists there's a growing group of newscasters in Toronto that are driving him crazy. The reason? They insist on pronouncing words that begin with the letters "S-T-R" as though there's an "H" in it. So "String" becomes "Shtring."  "Strength" gets said as "Shrtength." And "Street" transforms into "Shtreet." 

He insists he's heard this too many times on both TV and radio to have imagined it. I personally have not noticed this when I've listened to either, but he says it's becoming increasingly common. Has anyone else detected this? 

I've heard this too.

At the risk of being labelled a racist, these days this seems to be something prevalent in African-American English speakers.  At least that's who I've been hearing it from -- probably not excusively.  

Here is an interesting article about it:  (it goes as far back as the 1920s -- no mention of black people)

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/how-s-backing-causes-people-to-pronounce-street-as-schtreet/