The current Jays radio play-by-play team of Madison Shipman and Eric Smith thankfully is only temporary.  Their constant dialogue, much of which has no connection to the game, is unnecessary and annoying.  Madison Shipman’s ongoing repetition of Smith’s commentary only displays her lack of originality and is superfluous.  Smith should stick to his basketball radio gig.  Where are Ben Shulman and Chris Leroux when you need them?    

New Global Weekend News anchor Kevin Gallagher should replace the current Toronto Global 5:00 pm Nightly News anchor Antony Robart.  Gallagher's presentation is polished and authoritative.  It is noticed, perhaps, as a result of Gallagher's lengthy news experience.  Reversing positions would better serve the Global News audience.

Hard to listen to, too much talk and find conversations somewhat infantile.  Perhaps that is the direction Evanov wants to go. If so, bye bye 92.1.

John Biggs pulled mid week from mornings, new unknown voices this morning.  Last few years, Lite 92 has difficulty
retaining lineups. 

The handling of Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero by the team's brain trust Shapiro and Atkins is a fiasco.  Failing to sign him before Ohtani and Soto was a disaster.  That said, 500 million for ten years is very questionable given that players seldom remain viable after five.  This year's Jays' "upgrade acquisitions" made this spring are a bunch of no-names devoid of any decent stats.  Included are the desperate signings of veteran Anthony Santander, a one-year, 15 million dollar has-been and Max Scherzer, a 40-year-old pitcher on his way out.  Shapiro and Atkins failed to bring a winner in Cleveland after 15 years and here in Toronto, we're in year ten and still counting.    

Let's hope the opener isn't indicative of what we can expect after the questionable moves Shapiro and Atkins made to the team this season.   It's ten years and counting for Rogers to endure these two to come up with a winner.  A multi-million dollar renovated stadium does not count.  

It's Spring training, don't watch a bunch of no-names.  Wait till the season starts.  The same broadcast crew doesn't hold much hope for "only the game" talk.

How the mighty have fallen.  CFRB 1.1 only proves corporations such as Bell should not be approved to own a radio station.  They are just a bottom line organization and have no idea how to successfully operate in broadcasting.  Doesn't look good on the CRTC.  CFRB 1010 a sad case today. 

Watching the Mets Brewers game, TV host Jon Sciambi must have gone to the Dan Shulman School of Broadcasting.   Sciambi’s play-by-play is over the top, his colour side kick can’t get a word in.

Charlie Hustle has died.  Pete Rose passed away on September 30th at the age of 83. a career that spanned 24 seasons won two World Series titles with his hometown Cincinnati Reds.  One of the game’s greatest players had more hits than any other player ever. In 1986 Rose unofficially retired as a player.  Managing the Reds in 1989 there were allegations about his betting habits, never admitting to betting on his team.  Unfortunately, Rose received a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball for betting on baseball while he was still an active manager.   The hype about the Pete Rose issue seems very hypocritical.  Today any TV baseball game is rife with betting advertisements between each inning encouraging wagering on the game.  Given today’s betting climate, perhaps Charlie Hustle’s banishment is questionable.

The recent expansion by Global News of its evening report from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm is a disaster.  It is difficult to determine the reason.  The expansion includes unnecessary repetition of similar news stories, and devotes extension time to "soft' or human interest material which consumes valuable reporting time.  Antony Robarts reads well but should be a reporter not an anchor. The original news hour suffered under some of the same issues but at least was diverted by weather information.  Unless there is a major on-going news event of some severity, it is a chore to maintain viewer interest.  With the time extension, you will lose some original viewers because of repetition and perhaps affecting sponsorships.  It is a challenge to fill one hour of a news program with original material in order to retain the viewer.  Any extension of time is superfluous which really questions the recent Global News staff changes.

Normally when watching the Jays play, the radio audio is on and TV audio is off.  Unfortunately with no Jays game on local radio in the afternoon, the only alternative is to resort to endure the TV audio broadcast.  It's really impossible to enjoy the game with the incessant dialogue by Shulman and his guests much of which is not game related.  Give it a rest Dan.

The insatiable appetite of Edward Rogers to control the sports scene in Toronto has taken another step.  Rogers’ domination of the sports market in the city is evident with his recent purchase of Bell’s investment in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $4.7 billion dollars.  Bell is out Rogers is in.  MLSE owns the Toronto Maple Leafs; the Toronto Raptors; the Toronto Blue Jays, the Rogers Centre and Sportsnet, the Toronto Argonauts and Toronto FC Soccer Club.  That just leaves MLSE chairman Larry Tanenbaum, with his 20% and 5% owned by OMERS, a Canadian pension fund.  It’s only time before the Toronto’s sports teams are neglected the way The Blue Jays have been.  It’s all about Rogers’ bottom line and no more.  You only have to look at Rogers’ failure to devote interest in the Jays, it will be mirrored in their other sports entities.  What the city lacks is a sports-minded enterprise, not a profit-obsessed corporation who doesn’t know a hockey puck from a catcher’s mitt, and could care less.
 

Expansion of Global news and yet they let Alan Carter go.  The inmates are running the asylum.  

The endless superfluous TV play-by-play chatter is over the top failing to realize, IT'S TV, there are pictures!