In Ottawa when CFRA was a music station they'd do the full list. It was generally by board, but there were a lot of those back then.

Growing up in Oakville in the 60's, we would listen to CHWO [CFRB Lite with a smaller news department but the same horrible, to a teenager, music] for school closings. Back then there were only four high and five elementary schools. So the school names were mentioned. For the record, my schools were closed once in Grade One, Ten and Twelve. Where I lived there were no school bus service. No parents to drive us to school. We simply waliked to and from every day.

When I worked in Victoria we did not read lists of school closures due to snow.
That's because even one centimetre of snow would cause schools to close, so we just put that into the newscast.
"There's one centimetre of snow today, so all schools, are closed.
May God have mercy on us all.
The city of Victoria did not own one snow plow.
OK so I'm exaggerating.  It would take a minimum of five centimetres.
 

Last edited by newsguy1 (January 29, 2025 2:14 pm)

newsguy1 wrote:

When I worked in Victoria we did not read lists of school closures due to snow.
That's because even one centimetre of snow would cause schools to close, so we just put that into the newscast.
"There's one centimetre of snow today, so all schools, are closed.
May God have mercy on us all.
The city of Victoria did not own one snow plow.
OK so I'm exaggerating.  It would take a minimum of five centimetres.
 

According to Wikipedia, the City of Victoria now has seven snow plows. The entire state of Florida has 11. Toronto has 1400 "pieces of snow removal equipment"

RadioAaron wrote:

From what I understand, many schools no longer have the traditional "snow day" which was essentially a day off. They're using their COVID setups and having classes online.

 

 
Man, I would feel so ripped off! And I’m pretty sure my internet would be down…..