This is interesting. In recent years other than some overflow play by play the AM has basically been a network feed of ESPN Radio while the FM has offered some local programming. One would assume the local shows will move to AM.

Radiowiz wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

Doubling-down on right-wing faux-populist nonsense is probably the best option to get the few people who actually CUME the station to spend a little more time with it.
It's done within a few years, so milk it for whatever's left.

Those right wingers do not buy the products advertised.
Go Centre Left and there will be a stronger response to the ads. 
 

Is there a dominant centre left talk station anywhere in North America other than CBC Radio One?  I don't know of one.

georgio1 wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

 

Gee RA, the only shameful thing I see is your biased and foolish over the top comments  

Do paterson1's frequent attacks on the board monitor make anyone else extremely uncomfortable or am I too sensitive?
 

I don’t have a problem with it because they fact check each other. Also, the moderator supposed to be unbiased. This one is not so he should be held to account.
He frequently makes post that are political, despite claiming that he doesn’t, and often post things with headlines either aren’t quite true, or speculative. I’d like a good counterbalance balance to that.

torontostan wrote:

Cash: "Bell carries French channels that nobody watches" 
Translation: "Bell offers me French channels that I can choose whether or not to watch on this service that I willingly signed up for which also includes all of the channels I wish to watch"

Cash: "I am not in quebec"
Translation: "I am not capable of understanding that other people live in places which is not where I live, and they also may enjoy content that I do not, and vice-versa. Therefore, companies may try to target people that are like me, but also people that are not like me" 

Cash: "having a hundred French channels in Toronto isn't necessary"
Translation: "I do not want these channels, so good thing Bell gives me the option of hiding channels on my guide which I do not wish to see. And the Francophone individuals can also do the same at no cost"

Cash: "I don't know anyone who gets Bell Fibe for the French channels"
Translation: "I assume that nobody else in this country speaks French nor watches French TV because my 5 friends do not" 

Cash: "so much for choice"
Translation: "I am being offered more choice than I had before, on a service I willingly signed up for, and I am still complaining" 

This was an all-timer thread. Thanks for the laugh before bed. 

NAILED IT.
"Why does the 401 have so many lanes?  I only use one.  What a waste."
"Why does the grocery store have an entire cereal aisle?  I only need one box of Cheerios.  That space should be used for other things only I like."
My goodness.

RadioActive wrote:

Global also has one, a national feed, and it can be seen here. 

Global has 15 feeds.  You can find them at the bottom of this page.  

https://watch.globaltv.com/view/a9737ae8-30ed-11ec-b2c4-0242ac110008

The CBC has journalistic integrity.  This seems to continually surprise conservatives.
It isn't the left wing equivalent to the National Post or Toronto Sun.  It holds both sides to account.

Conan has said a few times that he loved to act like a giant jerk to interns and low level employees and watch them clue into the fact that he was doing a bit.

There have been rumours of either drug use or alcoholism around Fallon for quite some time.

I agree. You’ll see more commercials for Bell and fewer repeats of promos for CTV.

paterson1 wrote:

Overall viewership for live viewing and 7 day time shifted video on demand has been down 25% from May 25-Aug 13 for over the air networks in the US.  More from INSIDERADIO...https://www.insideradio.com/free/competitive-info-broadcast-tv-viewership-down-25-with-ad-spend-off-11/article_2bf6225c-424b-11ee-8df0-0f52b90fa719.html

Again, it’s rerun season during two strikes. Ratings are going to be historically low.

The only good thing about the vertical ownership oligopoly in this country is that this kind of stuff doesn’t happen every three months. It’s ridiculous how often viewers are held hostage by multi billion dollar corporations down there.

A little independent radio company in the US had a format called Tailgate Radio about 5 years ago.  It was actually well done.  Imagine Boom with a smattering of the current top 10 country and top 10 hot AC hits.  The music must have been hand picked because nothing too jarring played back to back.  I'm sure it didn't have ratings success but it was like listening to an iPod on shuffle but it flowed.

RadioActive wrote:

Not really, I was kind of being facetious. But what if there's some breaking sports news overnight - a death of a famous athlete, an injury update about a Blue Jay or something unexpected? Even a late night west coast ball game that goes into extra innings and has an effect on Toronto's playoff hopes? (The Seattle Mariners, for example.) That can certainly happen, but the sports guy can't update it, if there's no live sports guy to do it. 

My point is it's not totally live 24-7 if it's not totally live 24-7. But no, it wouldn't make any economic sense to have a live sports, business or weather person at 3 AM in most cases. 

If Tiger Woods gets hit by a bus at 3 in the morning and dies the news people will probably handle it and put it in the first block.  I think if an important west coast game goes late the sports person stays.  I think I noticed that during the hockey playoffs.

He had a bad game in May and another one in August causing you race to your keyboard to revive a thread that started over 11 months ago to make a post not related to radio, where you continue to call someone fat, while the rest of the world has decided that kind of thing is regnant.  Wow!  You really got us!  You have won the internet!  Let's shut the whole thing down.  It can only be downhill from here.

Dear god.

I’m pretty sure we’ve had this discussion before about “the first” podcast station.
iHeart had been doing this format in the US for a while already on some of its HD stations.  It seemed like at was just podcasts on shuffle without a set schedule. I don’t see any stations still doing it except one online station running environmental podcasts so they appear to have abandoned the idea.

I find CFRB excruciating.  21 minutes an hour is too much time to not be hearing the show I tuned in for.