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| SOWNY » Viewers Peeved With CBC's Olympic Opening Ceremony Coverage » February 13, 2026 7:42 am |
I watched the game on my computer on TSN........ Zero issues! 👍
| SOWNY » Attn. AM640: One At A Time! » December 9, 2025 8:11 am |
I had a couple of friends who senior employees at Chapman's advertising agency. They had nothing positive to say about him. I'm not sure why radio stations like 640/1010 want to know his opinion on anything. Personally, if he pops up on a station I'm listening to, I pop out.
| SOWNY » Attn. CTV: Stop "Toying" With The Weather » December 4, 2025 7:22 am |
I’m not sure why everyone is getting so upset about the weather on TV. I never watch the weather forecast on TV as I only use The Weather Network on my computer/phone. It has very up-to-date maps, hourly forecasts, seven day forecast, etc. I golf so weather is very important to golfers and I find the weather network extremely accurate. Give it a try and it may bring down everyone’s blood pressure. 😊
| SOWNY » Greg Carrasco Coming To CFRB » November 30, 2025 3:05 pm |
I want to see him a few years ago to buy a car at his dealership. We talked for about 60 minutes about my potential purchase and then he went off on a tangent talking about certain things that we're going on in the world at that time. (my perception of him is that he is a bit unique 🤔)He said he would send me the details for a couple of vehicles I was deciding between. I never got the email, sent him two more emails.... still nothing so I went to another dealership. Unique + terrible business follow up!! CFRB must be extremely hard up for on air talent
| SOWNY » MTV cancelling all global music channels » November 30, 2025 2:57 pm |
| SOWNY » Reshmi Nair Discusses What Happened at 1010 » October 28, 2025 8:11 am |
When you get fired from a job for whatever reason, that individual is going to say negative things about your employer. Keep in mind, this it's just one side of the situation. Who knows if what she is saying has any validity.
I remember listening to her a few times but stopped because she would never let the callers say anything if she didn't agree with it and always interrupted them. She obviously is not suited for broadcast media.
| SOWNY » TSN Cutting Overdrive to 2 Hours » September 3, 2025 8:38 pm |
torontostan wrote:
Stefanie wrote:
t's a cost cutting decision.
Do you think they're paid by the hour?
Great insight, Stan.🤔 Of course they're not however the ratings are down so like every other media company, I'm sure it was a cost cutting decision. You have a union mindset!
| SOWNY » TSN Cutting Overdrive to 2 Hours » September 3, 2025 2:28 pm |
Who wants to listen to something that just aired an hour earlier. My personal belief is that I believe with TSN 1050 and Overdrive's ratings being so low, that it's a cost cutting decision. I heard that the show is recently available on YouTube and Instagram so, that may be their future.
| SOWNY » TSN Cutting Overdrive to 2 Hours » September 3, 2025 1:02 pm |
| SOWNY » And the current temperature is .... » August 4, 2025 6:42 am |
| SOWNY » More Richard Southern biased reporting » July 10, 2025 5:56 am |
radiokid.....I'm not sure how you know what my political views are. Maybe I didn't avoid responding to him on incorrect items and sent a direct note . By the way, speaking of things that are wrong... It's Stefanie not Stephanie.. Duh!!
| SOWNY » AI will only get more sophisticated » July 9, 2025 6:09 am |
Interesting article on the evolving refinement of AI. Having worked in marketing on the client side as well as with an ad agency and in radio, the sophistication of AI will have a massive effect on advertising and ACTRA.
| SOWNY » More Richard Southern biased reporting » July 4, 2025 9:14 pm |
Hi, I sent Richard Southern at 680 news any email about more of his bias reporting today. Here's what he said and how I responded.
Stefanie,
I appreciate your feedback, but it's my job, and the job of every reporter covering Queen's Park, to hold the government to account, not to simply be a stenographer and read press releases. It's important that reports include both sides of an issue, and yes to cast a critical eye on what your government is doing. If you're able to point to anything I said that was incorrect I would gladly offer up correction, otherwise I think you may be confusing balance, and my job of holding a government to account, for bias.
My response....
Richard, you are confusing reporting the facts and holding the government to account.
I believe your job is a reporter not an interpreter.
I just need the media to report the facts and, with my voting, I'm able to interpret the facts and be in a position to hold any government to account. When I vote, if I disagree, I will hold them to account.
I have a graduate degree so I consider myself relatively smart. I don't need the media and you giving me your personal 'interpretation' of a situation in the government. I never read the editorial page of any newspaper...Why??.... Because if I know the facts from a story, I can make my own decision. Just give me the facts.
Your tonality in 98.7% of your reports on the Ontario government, obviously indicate your bias. I never hear anything against other parties.
You should be ashamed of yourself as a reporter........ Just give the facts and leave it to the listeners to make their own decision.
Maybe Rogers/your superiors have told you to constantly criticize Ford's government. If that is so, and if you're that fragile, Richard, quit the business or go to CBC.
Some of our greatest News reporters over the years just gave the facts.... Lloyd Robertson, Harvey Kirk, and even Peter Mansbridge at CBC.
Facts, facts, facts with no in
| SOWNY » Bias on the Airwaves? » June 26, 2025 8:16 am |
I listen to 680 News periodically throughout the day, mainly for traffic and weather. What should be a neutral, fact-based news station has increasingly started to sound more like an extension of a political campaign as there seems to be a continuous pattern of criticism directed at the Ontario government.
The station’s Managing Editor, Paul Cook, is married to Stephanie Smyth, a Liberal MPP. While relationships in politics and media aren't inherently unethical, the lack of transparency and objectivity in coverage should concern anyone who expects fairness from their news sources.
It’s impossible to ignore the slant in the reporting coming out of their Queen’s Park reporter, Richard Southern. He rarely misses an opportunity to paint the current provincial government in a negative light. Whether it's health care, education, or infrastructure, every segment from him seems to find a way to assign Government blame, even in cases where they are clearly acting in the public interest.
Critique is part of the media’s role. But when that critique consistently veers into what sounds like thinly veiled partisan attacks, credibility is lost. Is 680 News reporting the news, or trying to shape public opinion? Toronto deserves better than a news station that seems to have forgotten where journalism ends and political advocacy begins.
I know some of you will believe that I'm exposing my own political agenda, but that is far from the truth.
| SOWNY » The hottest sports event, just got hotter with the return of this guy » June 16, 2025 9:19 pm |
Why is eating a hotdog a sports event?
| SOWNY » Bitch & Moan » June 16, 2025 9:17 pm |
Moore is very boring, almost unlistenable. Moaning groaning all the time like he is the only one that's having issues. Maybe you should go to CBC and bore their audience.
| SOWNY » Canadian Open broadcasting question? » June 9, 2025 6:23 am |
Except for the PGA Tour's Signature events, the Canadian Open prize money is in line with all other tournaments. The Masters and The Open (not called British) are golf majors, so they are different.
| SOWNY » Spring Ratings » June 5, 2025 7:42 am |
Hi all, Instead of overall station ratings, I would enjoy seeing hourly breaks especially comparing 1010 and 640 as well as 1050 and 590. Is that available anywhere? Thank you!
| SOWNY » Sauga960 Looking For New Aft. Drive Host As Richard Syrett Leaves » May 26, 2025 6:48 am |
RA....Good point! It's also curious that Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 sometimes has perfect spelling/sentence structure and other times, not so much. My belief is that this person is misrepresenting their identity, as I noted a number of months ago..
| SOWNY » Greg Brady » March 18, 2025 10:26 am |
| SOWNY » Arash Madani let go by Rogers Sportsnet: » March 13, 2025 1:03 pm |
| SOWNY » Vassy Kapelos Today » February 18, 2025 2:07 pm |
Now 1010's volume is going up and down for me
| SOWNY » Vassy Kapelos Today » February 18, 2025 2:04 pm |
I've been listening to Vassy's show on 1010 and there must be something wrong with the volume as I can hardly hear the conversation. Initially I thought I may be going deaf but I switched to other stations and they were fine. Significant technical issue at 1010.
| SOWNY » Vassy Kapelos' Panel Show Goes Kerflooey » February 11, 2025 2:31 pm |
I heard it as well, RA. I like Vassy's style and was listening at lunchtime and I couldn't figure out, when I tuned in, why there was dead air. One would think that someone in the production/ technical area would've noticed and addressed the issue.
| SOWNY » Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 » February 9, 2025 10:33 pm |
Thank you RA,
I didn't realize there was another thread on this topic. My apologies.
Reading some of this person's posts and the inference that he/she has a visual disability, I find quite curious. Some of the grammar in certain posts are fine however, suddenly other posts seem unusually poorly written.
If this person is using voice dictation on the computer (as I'm right now), it comes out with proper grammar and spelling.
If people say something racist and then apologize, they are actually telling you who they really are and what they believe.When it comes to these types of comments which I've received over the years, I never give people a second chance. One time is too many and you are gone from my life!
| SOWNY » Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 » February 9, 2025 9:20 pm |
This person is 'supposedly' blind but on certain topics, his/her grammar/spelling is fine which is interesting.... On others, not so much.
From my perspective, I find some of his/her submissions are bordering on racist comments.
I know there's some political back-and-forth here which I don't mind, but I don't believe there's any need for his/her racist type comments.
| SOWNY » Who Is Taking John Oakley's Place Next Week On AM640? » February 7, 2025 7:08 am |
I'm going to South Carolina to play golf with a few friends in March. I didn't realize I'd be criticized for doing so. A friend of mine is in the travel industry and says that USA destination flights are solidly booked. It doesn't seem like many Canadians are cancelling however, some may be doing so because of our declining dollar.
| SOWNY » Corus Reveals What's Replacing Roy Green - But Only for 1 Weekend » February 2, 2025 6:52 am |
I listened to a good portion of Ben O'Hara Byrne's show yesterday and was quite impressed with him and the guests that he had. Albeit, he's not Roy.
| SOWNY » We are Canadians, not Americans » January 30, 2025 7:14 am |