RadioActive wrote:

As predicted, former Toronto host Bill Carroll - currently living and working on air at CFRA in Ottawa - will be the replacement for John Moore's final hour, as the local morning man looks to reduce his workload on CFRB. 

In typical Bell fashon, the addition won't cost the company anything, since Carroll is already part of the company and is on the air from 6-10AM. 

He promises an all local 60 minutes, even as he's also on covering Ottawa issues. It will be interesting to see how he pulls that off. 

The change begins on Monday.

Never much of a fan, but despite his huge ego, at least Carroll always stuck to news and current events issues, with hard-nosed opinions, unlike the new breed of yakkers who seem more concerned with self-analysis, relationships and the latest season of The Bachelor.  He may be a welcome change from the drivel on 640 during that hour.  I'll give him a shot.
 

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

Great idea.
But, I hope they don't make the same mistake that they did when they let Reshmi take over the rush.
Or another mistake they could make, they get the pro-america mark patrone on the far-right to take over.

No danger of Patrone coming over from Sauga 960. Besides, I think he lives in Florida, not that that would stop him from broadcasting to Toronto. But I'm 100% certain he's definitely not someone they would ever consider. 

Good.
1010 is a normal centre-right and centre-left station.
Maybe bell will get mark towey as host permanently?
I would personaly love that.

Agreed.  Towhey for the win.
 

I thought an 'emergency' radio station was any one I could turn to if I needed to escape John Tory or Brad Smith.

Alex Pierson?  She's not doing anything else.

At least 'Burt Ward, Robin from TV's Batman's ubiquitous dog food ads seem to have mercifully come to an end.  After hearing it hundreds of times, I still have no clue what it was called, or what she 'sang' in that garbled jingle, other than something 'for life'.

At least Alex Pierson is still employed, at least according to the fill-in hosts 'In for Alex' for about a year...
What a fuster-cluck that station is.

cash wrote:

There's an afternoon slot on 1010 he could fill 

Actually, there are two. 
 

jughead jones wrote:

Toronto Mike is reporting that program director, Mike Bendixen, is no longer with 640 Toronto. 

Respectfully, was he responsible for adding 'Dr.' Brad Smith to 640's lineup?  That alone is unforgivable.

fyshtalk2 wrote:

I like Madison but....please...a little less chatter. Less...is More! 
I don't need an analysis after every swing, catch or throw. Also like Caleb Joseph in the booth too..but he should abide by the same rules. 

And try to stick to the game at hand.  Joseph and Shulman will go off on some tangent about something, like the best steak in whatever town the team is visiting, and before they're done blathering, 2 batters have been up and the inning has ended without so much as a strike or ball count.
 

RadioActive wrote:

It's been months since Alex Pierson was last heard on AM640 and we now know she's not coming back - although the reasons why still aren't exactly clear. (Despite this, her show listing remains on the station's website.)

The place has been limping along with not-so-great replacement programming in the 12-3PM timeslot ever since. Shaye Ganam is a fine broadcaster, but his show is so heavily about Alberta issues and politics, that it's almost irrelevant in both Toronto and London. 

The reroll of "The Last Show With David Cooper" was bad enough the first time, without being endlessly rerun the next day. And if they really are planning to replace Pierson with CFNY's Drex, as some here have suggested, they should just get on with it already. (Although why he'd want to leave a much higher rated gig for a show on a station at the bottom of the heap is beyond me.)

I know Corus isn't exactly flying high financially right now, but they really do need to fill this slot with something better than is there now or risk losing even more listeners. The question is who - and when?

Steal Mark Towhey from his rare fill-in duties on 1010.  He'd probably come with a relatively low price tag, and is vastly superior to 'Drex', or any of the out of town subs that make the current show practically unlistenable for a GTA audience. 
 

gwgm wrote:

jughead jones wrote:

Out of respect for Alex, a former colleague, and the person affected by her behaviour, I will just say Alex is not heard on 640 Toronto any longer.

Thank you for clarifying. Kind of expains the weirdness surrounding her disappearance from her show.

Actually, it doesn't explain anything.
 

RadioActive wrote:

mic'em wrote:

There was a guy who came on Oakley from a sports mind ? All I can remember is he was a red head and a pizza company sponsored him. 

I think it was Cam Stewart, also known as "The Raging Redhead."

All I can remember about him is whenever he appeared and went on and on and on about gambling, you can bet I tuned out. 

He was brutal.  Oakley seemed to love him for some reason. 
 

Great news.  Towhey is vastly superior to both Hutton or Richards.  I will skip Mulroney on 640 (if he's there) for this welcome break.

Can Fai stick around to cover 9 to noon?  Permanently?

RadioActive wrote:

I hate to say this because it's about childhood cancer. But there's a spot running on the radio that I find absolutely unlistenable. It's such a tune-out, I have no real idea who it's for. 

It's the commercial where a woman keeps saying "Imagine if your child had cancer. Now imagine if..." and on it goes with "now imagine" endlessly repeating various scenarios before it mercifully ends. Except I'm gone long before I can imagine anything because it's such an irritating message. 

I assume it's for a charity. But if they really want to attract contributions, maybe it would be better not to drive people away before they tune out from the repetitive annoyance of the script. 

I hope they hit a home run with their money raising campaign. But they need to change the pitch, first.

Agreed.  It's more depressing than the cause, and drags on far too long.  Speaking of tune-outs, one series of ads that needs to be put down is 80-something 'Burt Ward from TV's Batman' shilling for dog food, along with its annoying, indecipherable jingle.