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SOWNY » OTA Viewers In Buffalo & Toronto Losing A Channel This Month » Yesterday 10:26 am

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People impersonating Rogers reps have been phoning me for a year asking me to switch providers.  When I ask specific questions regarding channels, they have no idea about their product.  Scamming is everywhere.

SOWNY » Sportsnet Not Carrying FOX Coverage Of World Series » October 30, 2024 10:48 pm

Ale Ont
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Sportsnet has always carried the international feed for the World Series and the All-Star game.

SOWNY » Need more hockey? Amazon Prime has Monday Night Hockey » October 21, 2024 7:46 pm

Ale Ont
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Does anyone remember when some Leafs games were NOT televised.

SOWNY » Mets vs Brewers » October 3, 2024 11:56 pm

Ale Ont
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If he is so bad, why does ESPN hire him to work national telecasts?

SOWNY » Pete Rose, Baseball's Banned Hit Leader, Dies At 83 » October 1, 2024 8:41 am

Ale Ont
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I was at Olympic Stadium when Rose got his 4,000th hit.  He was playing for the Expos.   You can probably find it on YouTube.

SOWNY » Six Televised Leafs Games Will Air On Amazon Only This Year » September 18, 2024 1:53 pm

Ale Ont
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I would think Monday is coast-to-coast.  It takes over from the previous Monday Night Hockey on Sportsnet.

SOWNY » TV Baseball Play-by-play. » August 31, 2024 5:46 pm

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In all of the independent surveys I see, the Jays tv play-by-play crew always rate higher than the YES crew.

SOWNY » Ottawa Senators Play-By-Play Voice Goes West For Flames Games » August 26, 2024 6:40 pm

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Abbott was the TV voice of the Sens on TSN5 when Gord Miller wasn't available.  Dean Brown and Gord Wilson are the radio voices of the Sens on TSN1200.

SOWNY » Subtle Tribute: The Hidden History In WCBS-AM's Dying Moments » August 26, 2024 8:54 am

Ale Ont
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That is truly in interesting fact.  RadioActive, your attention to detail is exemplary.

SOWNY » The New Bravo Channel » August 26, 2024 8:50 am

Ale Ont
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As this Bravo channel has the rights to many shows my wife watches, will it be available to other BDUs?
I phoned Bell and they had no idea about it.  And it begins Sept. 1.

SOWNY » Leafs/Canadiens Radio Broadcast History » August 24, 2024 12:42 pm

Ale Ont
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There was a network set up in the early 60's for Sunday night Leaf games.  CFRA Ottawa was in the network for awhile.

SOWNY » With All The Media Available, How Is This Still Possible? » August 22, 2024 5:58 pm

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The younger generation doesn't care about what is happening down the street, across the country, or around the world.
But using their phones they do know what colour socks their best friend is wearing and what they are having for supper.

SOWNY » Rogers Cable Ottawa US Feeds Change » August 21, 2024 3:17 pm

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The original US channels in Ottawa were WPTZ Plattsburgh (NBC) , WWNY Watertown (all three networks at that time,but mostly CBS), and I believe the west end may have had a Syracuse channel.
WPTZ was unwatchable most of the time.  WWNY had a sales office in Ottawa that did quite well, especially with Sunday afternoon hockey.  In the mid 70s WPBS was added from the Norwood, NY transmitter and WUTR, Utica was also added from a rebroadcaster in Northern NY, perhaps Massens.  It was an ABC affiliate.
They were later replaced by three Rochester channels that were brought in by microwave,  When FOX got the NFC rights there was a FOX channel available but I can't remember if it was from Rochester or Buffalo.  They were later replaced by Detroit, however WPBS Watertown is still the primary PBS station.  During pledge drives they have a graphic that says Canadian funds at par.
Years ago I heard that 60 per cent of their funds came from Canada with 40 per cent of that number from Ottawa.
 

SOWNY » It's A Challenge » August 18, 2024 8:25 pm

Ale Ont
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Kevin Barker is married to Hazel.  Jim Barker is on the CFL panel on TSN.

SOWNY » WCBS 880 New York to end all-news programming » August 12, 2024 6:39 pm

Ale Ont
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W-C-B-S is the station I listen to every night before going to sleep.  It is was happening in the world W-C-B-S
had it.
I can't get WINS as C-F-R-B is the same frequency.  I may switch to W-B-Z.

SOWNY » Two Great Commercial Free Online Oldies Stations With A Difference » August 4, 2024 12:54 pm

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We've got stacks and stacks of wax.  The hit lines are open....you say it, we play it!!!

Digging elbow-deep in the salad bowl of ballads.

SOWNY » Local Radio Among Those Worldwide Affected By Massive Microsoft Outage » July 19, 2024 6:42 am

Ale Ont
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C-B-C Morning in Ottawa has been replaced by Metro Morning out of Toronto.

SOWNY » CBC Reveals Their Paris Olympics Broadcast Team » July 15, 2024 8:37 pm

Ale Ont
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Yes, he announced that on a telecast about two weeks ago.  I am not a basketball fan, but one of my good friends who is, says he is also an excellent basketball play-by-play man.
I think he still does some E-S-P-N college games.

SOWNY » Thanks, Rogers » July 15, 2024 8:34 am

Ale Ont
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Yes, mace that is correct.  It happens when the Lions are playing as we get the Detroit channels.  However, the announcers always warn viewers of the N-F-L rule before switching the game,

SOWNY » Thanks, Rogers » July 15, 2024 5:11 am

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I have Bell and this happens during the NFL season.  While all of the sinsubs are set up by computer the N-F-L teams insist on playing after the three hour window.  So, when one team is on the one-uyard line, threatening to take the lead,zap, I miss what happens and am transported to another game just starting.  The answer is simple....have a real person sitting there to override the simsub.
I complain to the Commission and Bell sends me a note confirming I was right and then dance around saying they have hundreds of simsubs a week.  I really don't care how many they have.  I want my N-F-L.
One case manager at Bell even told me they had nothing to do with it.  He blamed Fox. One of the most unusal simsubs occurred years ago.  I tuned to watch the space shuttle returning to earth when on comes 'The Love Boat.'  It appeared at one point the spacecraft was going to land on the deck!!!













 

SOWNY » Ottawa/Gatineau A Great Radio Market » July 9, 2024 5:55 pm

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Remember it was over a year ago that Rogers handed the licence for 1310CityNews back to the Commission.
Now, the only big players in Ottawa for information are C-F-R-A and C-B-C.
Yes, Ottawa is very underserved when it comes to English-language news.
The C-R-T-C is to blame for allowing Global and City to establish just transmitters.  C-H-C-H has a low power transmitter in Ottawa.
As I have mentioned, there are many Sundays when there is no early news show.
Pretty dismal for a market this size, and the capital of Canada.

SOWNY » Why Did Toronto Viewers See Ottawa's Local News On CBC On Canada Day? » July 2, 2024 1:15 pm

Ale Ont
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On many occasions we, in Ottawa, get the Toronto supper show and very little, if anything, relates to the nation's capltal.

SOWNY » Major changes happening at CHIN Radio » June 26, 2024 2:34 pm

Ale Ont
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Unfortunately for myself, there are no more old radio shows scheduled.  I liked to listen to them while doing other work.  I phoned CHIN today and was told that programming is no more and would not be moving to another of their frequencies.
So, goodbye to Sgt. Preston, Miss Brooks, Joe Friday, Matt Dillon, Johnny Dollar, and Jack Benny among others.

SOWNY » Fans dressed as seats at the Edmonton Elks CFL game » June 16, 2024 9:22 am

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The CFL is very secretive when it comes to attendance.  I try to find numbers of certain games and come up empty.
The league is quick to point out large crowds, but they are few and far between.
It will be interesting to see what happens when CTV is offering the games later in the season.  That means the product will be on OTA television, where you don't need a subscription.

SOWNY » Why Playoff Hockey Has Begun To Disappear From The CBC » June 2, 2024 12:31 pm

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CBC is on the record saying they will not bid for broadcast rights of professional sports.

SOWNY » I wonder what was the last NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL game that wasn't..... » May 31, 2024 8:35 pm

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I remember perhaps 15 or 20 years ago, not all Ottawa Senators games were televised.

SOWNY » Over the top. » May 25, 2024 10:26 pm

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As an avid baseball fan I love all the talk.  Especially since Joe Siddall is from Wimdsor and played in both the Tigers and Expos organizations.
When I met my wife she didn't know a fast ball from a fast car.  She has learned so much about the game during every telecast, epecially from Buck.
I remember listening to the Expos games in our newsroom.  Very few games were on TV.  We had a reporter who knew nothing about baseball, didn't follow it, and really couldn;t care less about it.  Until a rain delay. Then he wouod listen as Dave and Duke just chatted, told stories and entertained us until they threw it back to the local station or the game resumed.

SOWNY » The Jays game is all screwed up » May 24, 2024 8:59 am

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Kudos to Rogers for getting something on the air for the first six innings.  
They did the best they could considering what they had, or didn't have, to work with.

SOWNY » New Job Posting: Play-by-Play Announcer For The Buffalo Bills » May 23, 2024 5:17 pm

Ale Ont
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But it is radio.  TV play-by-play pays a lot more.

SOWNY » Is the Ross Atkins media address , showing a disconnect at Rogers? » May 20, 2024 9:48 am

Ale Ont
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Don't blame Rogers.  The deal is done through MLB.  The Jays or Rogers have no say.

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