It's done as a reminder that if you want current sports there's sports down the dial at the competition.
If you want news/talk, CHML has that. 
Why they encourage listeners to go to the competition is anyone's guess, but that is what they are doing...

So mistakes can happen to the best of us...

There's a thousand reasons what may have caused this, from a corrupt upload to someone recording the new one under the wrong code.  

Broodcaster wrote:

MY apology.  Make that the 7:55 am sports

I must be in the Twilight Zone!

To err is human...

Heard lots of mistakes including - dig this - promos buried deep in a recorded program where the employee had either left the workplace of their own doing or had been walked out the door fired.

Sloppy no doubt but sure makes for some eye opening listening doesn't it? 

 

Broodcaster wrote:

I know this sounds revolutionary and goes against all that is digital, but why not do the sportscast live?

Because cost.... It's cheaper to have one guy do the cast on a few stations VS doing all of them live.   It's a reality in 2019.     I've dealt with pre-recorded news/sports/weather for years, but we always put end dates on the cart to ensure old ones would never run....   If they come up as N/A, it gave people time to react.   From the many issues on 640 with old news running and other Corus news talkers, my guess is they are leaving the carts open ended, OR making the end date set automatically too wide open.     It's a ticking time bomb doing this.    It would be better to have it be skipped than running day old info. 

 

What really surprises me is that CHML actually has a sports person doing a segment at all. CFRB, as an example, is a big talk station that got rid of their sportscasters a long time ago, although in a pinch - like with the Raptors - they can do a debrief with some of the TSN guys and gals.

But the days of the separate sports person like Bill Stephenson (or more recently, Mike Toth) are long, long over. CFMJ 640 doesn't have a sportscaster either, giving scores at the end of their newscasts instead. Given that CHML is a Corus station, I'm frankly surprised they even have such a staffer. (Although perhaps it's because they do a large newswheel in drivetime around their talk programming that accounts for why that position still exists there at all.)  

That said, there can't be anything worse than airing an old sportscast, with ancient scores from previous days. You might be able to fool a casual listener with yesterday's news, especially if they don't follow more than the headlines. But sports is so specific and time sensitive that it stands out like the proverbial sore thumb when it's out of date.