Scholes was on Monday night doing the Employment Hour on 640. I believe he's working freelance, which I suppose means he could continue doing it despite the new gig. But could he really get off the air at 6 PM every night and be ready to go live with another show on a different station an hour later? 

I suppose it's possible if everything is done remotely, but that's quite a quick turnaround if that's the plan. And I can only wonder what each radio station would think of him appearing on another. I suppose it's all in his agreement and how much work he can take on at once. 

Depends - if Corus sees the mighty CKNT the way most broadcasters used to see community cable (RIP Channel 10) then they probably don't see it as competition and don't care if someone has a side gig there. 

i'm still getting my head around seeing people i knew, when they were first starting out (including john), getting older. it reminds me, i'm not getting old... i'm already there! 

Charlie wrote:

I heard Carasco shilling for Oakville Nissan today.  Wasn't he with Oakville Infiniti lately? 

I had to look it up, and am certainly no "car guy", but found he's apparently the "dealer principal of Oakville Nissan and Oakville Infiniti" both (and Newmarket setting of both before that). Infiniti is the luxury division of Nissan.

RadioActive wrote:

I suspect the 640 stuff is freelance and if he has a contract, it's written in that he gets to do both. But under normal circumstances, you wouldn't let someone appear on one station - especially afternoon drive - and then do a show somewhere else in virtually the same market just over an hour later. But good for Scholes. Nice gigs if you can get them! 

Scholes also voices/"drives" the Newstalk 1010 and more broadly "Bell Talk Radio Network"'s weekly "Disability Law Show" (you can hear some audio of him doing that here). As you say, I suspect it's freelance and voice-for-hire (and he's pitching himself in that way via his https://www.take2media.ca/ ) - odd to hear 1010 run those promos sometimes in the same evening he's doing 640 work. I did enjoy his TM appearance in 2018!

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RadioActive wrote:

Well, you can’t say they aren’t trying! CKNT, aka Sauga 960 AM, has just announced a new PM drivetime show, which will launch the day after Labour Day...
  
Barry Davis, who occupied that slot for a few years, is being reassigned to a once-a-week show, but just when that will air hasn’t been announced yet.

Whenever someone leaves a station - or the industry altogether - I'm often curious where they end up. We now know with Barry Davis. While a podcast he does will still eventually wind up airing on Sauga 960, Davis is mostly out of the biz for now. 

On his Twitter page, Davis - a former Fan 590 baseball stalwart - has announced he'll be working full time for Bass Pro Shops selling ATVs and boats. (Not sure the end of the summer is the best time for this, but he seems passionate about it.) 

As for whether there are any prospects he could ever return to cover baseball for Sportsnet? "For those that were hoping I was rejoining the Blue Jays broadcast, not gonna happen," he assures. "I really enjoyed my time there, but I believe that that time of my life has passed."