And for their encore...


 

He is 72. If he's just retired all his staff would have been laid off. As for O'Reilly's take, continuing for 6 years after you supposedly "blew up" your audience isn't exactly cause and effect.

It also could just be something like not being willing to accept a pay cut.

Walter wrote:

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. 
 

Maybe hire someone who isn't an ideologue? Certainly there can be more to talk radio than being lectured to by different varieties of right-wing dogmatists all day. Currently, 640 and 1010 seem to have the political spectrum covered from A to C.
 

darcyh wrote:

I've heard that CFRX is a 'labour of love' for the engineers and perhaps ham operators who keep it going. They don't charge the company for their work. Still an old 1KW transmitter will probably consume 2 or more kilowatts of electricity which over time adds up. At 18 cents a kilowatt hour this equates to about $8.64 a day or $267 per month.  

Yes, but the transmitter is over 40 yeaes old. Eventually it will need to be replaced.

CHU's last moments followed by a pirate playing an appropriate tune.


 

CBC made the point of saying they  retain the name "Hockey Night in Canada". So what are they going to do with it? License it to TSN or Sportsnet? Air minor hockey games under the banner? Use it for a game show, sitcom, drama, or reality show?

CBS Morning had a 4% decline in viewers the week after Colbert's Late Show ended while Good Morning America and Today both gained
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/week-of-june-1-morning-news-ratings-gma-and-today-grow-across-the-board/ar-AA25khdV

I wonder if it would have made sense for Colbert to have bought the timeslot for $15 million and sold his own advertising? 

RadioActive wrote:

This story was under wraps, with this one running in Vancouver media on Wednesday. The old "wants to be with family" excuse was trotted out for Nat Hunter. Is that ever really true?

Popular Vancouver radio host announces departure during emotional on-air reveal

 

I was amused that an excuse Caroline Mulroney gave for resigning is her kids have now left home (so she can spend more time at home without having to spend time with family?)

The end of time.

CBS News Radio shuts down Friday night at 11 PM, Eastern, if anyone is interested in tuning in as it goes dark. 

Did anyone else catch the Wayne & Shuster reference during Letterman's spot on the Late Show last night?

Can't wait for 70s Cancon classics like the Trouble with Tracy and Starlost.