Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope our beloved user turkeytop does not get carved up and served this year!

I especially am giving thanks for all the members (and non-member readers) who come here on a daily or weekly basis to read the posts so many put up here. Sometimes I can be a turkey, but we try to provide sufficient stuffing on the site to keep everyone interested.

Good or critical, I appreciate all your help in keeping this place alive. (Unlike that turkey on your dinner table!)

Happy Gobble Gobble Day to all!  

Ale Ont wrote:

Great message Shorty Wave.  Happy Thanksgiving to all.  BTW,.. is that turkey still walking around Toronto?  ( saw it on the news last night.

 
Thank you Ale Ont! And as far as I know, that turkey is still touring Toronto, brave bird at this time of the year!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  Enjoy the long weekend.  Thanks for posting the Family Feud "turkey" segment RA!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!! 

Listener wrote:

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!! 

Same to you.
But just waiting around to hear christmas crooners and carols on the radio.
I don't get excited for All I want for christmas is you, I'm more excited to hear o holy night and white christmas.
Canadian radio should play slade's merry christmas and wisard's I wish it could be christmas instead of the same christmas pop songs, and there lowering there percentages of crooners and carols.
On CHFI, I rarly hear silent night or hark the harold angels sing.
I miss star 102.5.

I did a mini-dial scan in the morning and was surprised to find one station doing actual live programming I wasn't expecting. Outside of 680 News, which obviously can't do rerolls, CBC Radio 1 seemed to be live and local. And believe it or not, CFAJ St. Catharines, which had an honest-to-God live morning man in on the holiday, playing oldies and talking about what was going on in the Niagara Region. 

To be honest, I didn't even know they had any live hosts, let alone voice tracking! But I knew he was live, since he talked about stuff that only someone who was actually there would have known about.  

I understand why most stations do re-rolls and automation on a holiday weekend. But kudos to those who went live. I'm thankful for them this Thanksgiving. 

Shorty Wave wrote:

I too scanned around this morning and listened to Radio 1 for a bit and I’m fairly certain AM740 was live, listened for a bit as well. I ended up listening to the BBC on their app, always a good backup!

How did you listen to the bbc on there app?
Are you using a vpn?
I thoght it was geoblocked?
Were you listening to the world service or radio 4?

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

I did a mini-dial scan in the morning and was surprised to find one station doing actual live programming I wasn't expecting. Outside of 680 News, which obviously can't do rerolls, CBC Radio 1 seemed to be live and local. And believe it or not, CFAJ St. Catharines, which had an honest-to-God live morning man in on the holiday, playing oldies and talking about what was going on in the Niagara Region. 

To be honest, I didn't even know they had any live hosts, let alone voice tracking! But I knew he was live, since he talked about stuff that only someone who was actually there would have known about.  

I understand why most stations do re-rolls and automation on a holiday weekend. But kudos to those who went live. I'm thankful for them this Thanksgiving. 

CFAJ is not a jukebox?
Now CKOC neads to follow.

CFAJ is mostly a jukebox.

But it appears they do have a live morning and afternoon show. The morning show host is named Tony Stuart, who does his show remotely from Perth, Ont., while also appearing on at least 2 other stations.

Afternoons belong to Ella Mack. 

They also have some weekend programming that is definitely not live, but at least it's not just automated music with a few liners in beween. 

RadioActive wrote:

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

I did a mini-dial scan in the morning and was surprised to find one station doing actual live programming I wasn't expecting. Outside of 680 News, which obviously can't do rerolls, CBC Radio 1 seemed to be live and local. And believe it or not, CFAJ St. Catharines, which had an honest-to-God live morning man in on the holiday, playing oldies and talking about what was going on in the Niagara Region. 

To be honest, I didn't even know they had any live hosts, let alone voice tracking! But I knew he was live, since he talked about stuff that only someone who was actually there would have known about.  

I understand why most stations do re-rolls and automation on a holiday weekend. But kudos to those who went live. I'm thankful for them this Thanksgiving. 

CFAJ is not a jukebox?
Now CKOC neads to follow.

CFAJ is mostly a jukebox.

But it appears they do have a live morning and afternoon show. The morning show host is named Tony Stuart, who does his show remotely from Perth, Ont., while also appearing on at least 2 other stations.

Afternoons belong to Ella Mack. 

They also have some weekend programming that is definitely not live, but at least it's not just automated music with a few liners in beween. 

Just checked the station out-much more varied music than CKOC and the fact they have any personalities is also a major step up.