Storm wrote:

Show ends at !0 AM and already Adam and Jax are removed from the website, replaced by the non-descript "Virgin Mornings".

Some pictures were still up on the site of them but the iHeartRadio website for Canada is a pain to navigate. I could not find the shows section on the site which is dumb. Yet it shows that Bell Media is cheap in house for making a website like this.

Forward Power wrote:

No annoying, super-repetitive commercials like these here in the Ottawa Valley... although Spence, which has a location at Ottawa's Rideau Centre, is heard every so often on radio in the capital, as are the many Dilawri car dealerships in the city ("no-body deeeeeals, like Di-law-ri!"). No idea who the most frequent advertisers are on the talkers, CFRA and CityNews... my wife & I usually have Stingray CHR Hot 89.9 on in the car, or its competitor, Jump 106.9.

Locally, the Mazda dealer in Pembroke used to dominate the airwaves and papers with their numerous rapid-fire ads pitching used vehicles, and then the Chrysler dealers in Pembroke and Renfrew became the major auto advertiser, bombarding "BAM!" across the Valley. Those ads are gone now, with the Renfrew location now under new ownership.

The closest thing to a repetitive ad on local radio here these days would be for a plumbing and heating contractor, whose phone number could be mistaken for that of a Pizza Pizza franchise. Repetitive, but not so annoying compared to the stuff you hear all the time in the GTA.

Or London radio ads like "Mattress Depot", "Ray Cullen Chevy Buick GMC" which I not heard in a while. Stricklands, Finch auto group. They own almost every dealership in London. They own one in Sarnia and one in Georgetown near the GTA. But still I do tune to other out of market stations I can try to get from other areas like Chatham, Windsor/Detroit, across the lake from Erie and Cleveland. I think the ads in the states are a bit different there compared to here in Canada.

I just looked on the TV Passport guide for Windsor and it does show the AM800 Morning Drive in the CTV2 section. I doubt that London will get on board here like Windsor and Vancouver Island. I guess CFPL will repeat the 11PM news just like CKVR in Barrie does.

Also don't expect any local news during holiday Monday. 

I know CHCH aired radio ads like LITE 92 from Brantford, Move 105.7 from St. Catharines and KIX 94.7 from Hamilton.

zed wrote:

Amandalina is quite good and better than the regular weeknight anchor Reta Ismail (in my opinion).

Where did Carlye Fiset go? He was the weekend anchor at CTV2 London.

I think Carlye got the week off. I agree that Amadalina is good. Her voice sounds a bit like Sija Liu's I got a bit confused who was anchoring the London news.

ED1 wrote:

Forward Power wrote:

Glen Warren wrote:

Toronto was to become the east hub, and both centres were to be a back up or fail over for the other.

Doesn't CTV have a similar configuration, e.g. east at Channel Nine Court, and west at CFCN Calgary?

Yes. When CTV’s Agincourt studios experienced that power failure, it didn’t really affect the western CTV stations.

Just for curiosity when did CTV had the outage that it affected stations like Windsor, London, Kitchener and Barrie etc. From I can recall I think it happened in 2020 during the pandemic but I was lucky I was able to stream one of the local CTV newscasts for free without a login. Those were the days when COVID changed almost everything.

RadioActive wrote:

I saw something very odd on CTV's noon news in Toronto Thursday. They were about to do the Leafs recap, and went to viz of the crowds in Maple Leaf Square for about 10 seconds. Then, suddenly, they cut to a promo for Grey's Anatomy and Station 19, which ran most of its full 30 secs. 

They then cut back to anchor Nathan Downer, who was in the midst of throwing to reporter Andrew Brennan at the arena. He said two or three words, then the screen went to what looked like the tail end of another spot saying something about Mother's Day. That was there for at least four seconds and then it was back to Brennan, still in mid-script, throwing to his piece about the game and reaction. 
You rarely see stuff like that on CFTO, and I'm guessing it was either a weird glitch or an error in Master Control. The news crew didn't seem aware of either interruption. After that, everything returned to normal.  

Something similar happened last night during CTV London's news at 6. There were no issues when they did a Live on Location segment where Nick Paperella was at one of the new Dream Lottery homes on the outskirts of London. But when they did another Live on Location segment where Julie Atchison was live on location at one of the McDonald's locations in London during McHappy Day. After showing her weather forecast her live feed began to glitch and freeze then her feed unfroze but lost her audio feed and had to send it back to the newsroom. Reta said: "Looks like we are losing Julie." then showed what stories are coming up next. After that unexpected mess up the rest of the newscast went on without any more errors. Does CTV use that famous "Dejero" brand for their live camera feed?

Forward Power wrote:

Dial Twister wrote:

Where's Dave Devall when you need him?

Exactly! Or the late, great Bob McIntyre on CKVR.

Don't forget about Jay Campbell from CFPL TV.

Found some cool props from The Price Is Right like the big Plinko Sign, One of the podiums from The Weakest Link and the judges desk with the red x's from AGT.

Very disappointing I enjoyed listening to Vinyl Tap on FM96 Sunday nights. But what was the main reason for it to leave the airwaves? cost cutting? Also it is still listed on Cool 94.5's website which is owned by Blackburn Media Inc. Maybe CKLO 98.1 in London could air it instead? Take all of FM96's listeners to 98.1 instead? We will have to wait and see.

The 92 driver from Guelph has been charged for careless driving causing bodily harm in connection to the crash that injured CTV Kitchener reporter Stephanie Villella back in March.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/opp-charge-driver-in-crash-that-injured-ctv-reporter-stephanie-villella-1.6376985
 

MJ Vancouver wrote:

Also anchored for a time at WLWT in Cincinnati.

The TMZ article mentions he had been hosting a folk music show on Cincinnati radio up until recently.

I did not know that he was hosting a folk music show very interesting. Also he hosted other TV shows like America's Got Talent and Baggage on GSN. He was also popular on TV in the UK which I did not know.

It is called "Die For You" by the Weeknd and it was recorded in 2016 and released in 2017. Here we are in 2023 and it is still being played many times radio stations like Z103.5, Virgin Radio, CHUM 104.5, Kiss 92.5 etc and across the US. This maybe a reason why. According to the Wikipedia article it says.

"In 2022, the song experienced a resurgence in popularity, due to the online social media application TikTok. Therefore, the song impacted US radio, achieving a new peak within the top ten of the Hot 100. On February 24, 2023, the Weeknd released a remix of "Die for You" with American singer Ariana Grande, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated March 11, 2023."

Yes I know some people might find this song overplayed many times on the radio but when it is played almost all the time I switch it to a different station.
 

Is the SOWNY forum working properly? Is not for me.