I won’t be listening. Projecting and screaming are two very different things.  He missed that day in week one of radio school and no one has ever bothered to fill him in.  He seems like a nice guy but he is the radio equivalent of Caps Lock.

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mace wrote:

I rarely listen to radio at night.

Judging by some of the numbers I've seen, you're far from alone.

CBC Radio One has all kinds of stimulating international and Canadian-produced radio programs during the overnight hours. The schedule can be found here - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/pdfs/Radio-One-Overnight.pdf
 

RadioActive wrote:

My sister, who lives in New York City, is coming to Toronto for a rare visit in May. She has trouble sleeping and generally passes the time listening to overnight talk radio, often Coast To Coast AM. Of course, there's a lot to choose from in the world's biggest radio market. But I'm not entirely sure what she'll be tuning in on a restless night in Toronto, since everything is reroll after reroll. It really wasn't until she mentioned it that I realized how terrible the offerings on the air overnight here really are. Unless she's willing to DX (I doubt she even knows what that is) in the wee hours, I have no idea what she might tune in.  Any suggestions? Because I honestly can't think of anything. 

Anything decent left on shortwave? Not even sure CBC runs that anymore overnight.... the only overnight listening I do is either DX or the letters zzzzz.

RadioActive wrote:

My sister, who lives in New York City, is coming to Toronto for a rare visit in May. She has trouble sleeping and generally passes the time listening to overnight talk radio, often Coast To Coast AM. Of course, there's a lot to choose from in the world's biggest radio market.

But I'm not entirely sure what she'll be tuning in on a restless night in Toronto, since everything is reroll after reroll. It really wasn't until she mentioned it that I realized how terrible the offerings on the air overnight here really are. Unless she's willing to DX (I doubt she even knows what that is) in the wee hours, I have no idea what she might tune in. 

Any suggestions? Because I honestly can't think of anything. 

Just an FYI about the Bell Media/IHeartRadio station in Montreal:

CJAD 800 https://www.cjad800.com/ was copying the Newstalk1010, CFRA580 et al overnight blueprint for several years with the Jim Richards → David Cooper → Re-rolls format until about September 2023.

Now it's back to Coast to Coast overnight 7 days a week from 1:AM to 5:AM.

If your visiting sister wants to listen on her phone on the Tune-In or IHeartRadio App, she can still get her C2C along with hundreds of US stations (Likely her own station in NYC as well) carrying this oddball George Noory's 4 hours.

Does Joey Castillo has a weekend show slot on Fresh 103.1 in London? I heard him this morning on 103.1 while doing some arrends. I also thinks He does the afternnon drive show on 91.5 The Beat in Kitchener. I cannot stand him. He is not funny and cool. I switch to a different station the moment I hear him.

Broadcast veteran looks back at career ahead of new radio show for Ontario listeners

Damian worked at 91.5 The Beat in Kitchener/Waterloo and will be well known to the audience here.  I listened to some of the first show last night, and as mentioned, airs only in Southern Ontario on 9 Corus stations.  Mr. D is a high energy host and it will be interesting to see how he does up against Virgin Radio and their cross Canada Night Show With Myles Galloway which has been on air for a few years now.

Speaking of Myles, here is an interesting Youtube of him after he just got fired from his job in the UK.  He decided he wanted to move to Canada and this is the video of his Vancouver to Toronto tour of some radio stations applying for a job.  Of course he got a job at Virgin in Toronto eventually and then the evening syndicated show.  Interesting clip.  https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yout-ube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjpgGiMKyK1M&rlz=1C1GGRV_enCA751CA751&oq=https%3A%2F%2F#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9da81acc,vid:jpgGiMKyK1M,st:0

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