Hope the call screener gets danger pay.

This should never happen on a big station like Newstalk 1010. Let me correct myself; former big station.

Because they don't have a full staff. If Agar has to take a day off, they should have someone who can fill in. If you want to be viewed as a major station, and CFRB has always been that, then you have to be a major station. That means staff it like one.

Rune - your comment makes no sense.  They are switching shifts.  How is that not staffing appropriately?  If either one wanted the day off and the other didn't fill in, there's plenty of others that could step in.  
 

Pretty sure it's not going to do a thing to ratings to have Agar in the morning - if anything many more may tune in to both shows out of curiosity.

What if, down the road, John Moore gets tired of the ridiculous hours of the morning show and Newstalk 1010, in order to keep him as a host and on the air, okays John switching to another shift, say mid-morning, and this is Newstalk trying it on for size because of Jerry's medical appointment absence.

I seem to recall something like this happening with Bill Carroll?

Would also explain why they didn't put anyone else in for Jerry this Friday and why Jerry has filled regularly in on MITM before in the recent past. 

Not saying there's any truth to this, it's just my writer's imagination in overdrive...

Last edited by betaylored (October 17, 2022 2:53 pm)

Rune wrote:

Let me explain. CFRB is a heritage radio station, a true giant. Look at the talent that has gone through there over the years. What the comment really was referring to is the demise of what was once a great radio station. There is no bench, and no news department. It's like the Blue Jays only ever played with 9 guys (although in this case it's more like 6). Let's say Bo Bichette couldn't play shortstop for some reason and what they did was move him to left field and moved Gurriel to shortstop. If that happened , you'd call them bush league. 

CFRB’s bench

Mark Towehy
Bob Reid
Deb Hutton
Tamira Cherri (spelling ??)

Not bad if you ask me

Rune wrote:

If that's their bench, why isn't one of them filling in for Agar? 

Because they found a way to have both people work and not waste a vacation day

Plus it’s a nice change

I heard part of the switcheroo. I thought Moore sounded a lot more relaxed on air than he usually does. I attribute that to him getting at least two hours extra sleep, which he mentioned off the top, but also because there's a lot more room to breathe on the 9-noon shift than the hectic morning run. 

There were a few glitches - for instance, he kept giving out the local phone number instead of the long distance line, sometimes forgetting that he's also on CKTB and CJBK.

Agar, by the way, was back for part of the afternoon show, when John Tory guested for an hour. A long day for him.

Overall, an interesting change of pace, but I prefer the normal shifts for both of them.  

I had fun listening to this switch-up! John with old pal Maureen Holloway was fun as well.

betaylored wrote:

tho Nick Murano (sp?) is doing a fine job.

Nick Maiorano, also co-host of the "Totally Useless Information" podcast.

On a side note, in this day and age I never quite understood the lazy use of the "(sp?)" tag. 30 years ago, maybe. But we have so much of the world's information at our fingertips within seconds - it's quite the miracle. Why not take 10 seconds in another browser tab to Google terms like "Nick +board op +Newstalk 1010" (a few different vaguely related keyword searches I tried all found his results at the top) to honor him with his correct name spelling? Lazy and disrespectful of the subject (the excellent Nick!) and the audience reading here, if to make their point the poster can't take 10 seconds to determine accuracy of a name spelling and just defaults to "(sp?)". Just strikes me as so odd in 2022!
 

I have listened to Adwoa on John Moore's show and I really liked her.  I would like to hear her more often beside just reporting traffic.

AspectRatio wrote:

I had fun listening to this switch-up! John with old pal Maureen Holloway was fun as well.

betaylored wrote:

tho Nick Murano (sp?) is doing a fine job.

Nick Maiorano, also co-host of the "Totally Useless Information" podcast.

On a side note, in this day and age I never quite understood the lazy use of the "(sp?)" tag. 30 years ago, maybe. But we have so much of the world's information at our fingertips within seconds - it's quite the miracle. Why not take 10 seconds in another browser tab to Google terms like "Nick +board op +Newstalk 1010" (a few different vaguely related keyword searches I tried all found his results at the top) to honor him with his correct name spelling? Lazy and disrespectful of the subject (the excellent Nick!) and the audience reading here, if to make their point the poster can't take 10 seconds to determine accuracy of a name spelling and just defaults to "(sp?)". Just strikes me as so odd in 2022!
 

A good point AspectRatio, I went back and corrected my spelling of Nick's last name in my post.

It would be great to hear more of Maureen Holloway on 1010, as a weekly roundtable contributor perhaps and/or ideally as the host or co-host of a show.

Last edited by betaylored (October 23, 2022 10:59 am)

John Moore's is off today having lost his voice.  So once again, they have Jerry Agar do Moore's show.

Moore vs Agar have dramatically different styles.  I for one think Moore is great, a gold standard, vs Agar, who is terrible.  So whenever Agar subs for Moore, I'm off to another channel.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have someone more akin to Moore style wise to sub in for Moore rather than someone so dramatically the opposite in style?

I'd take Trafford to sub in for Moore in a heartbeat.  Trafford did an excellent, well-prepared show on the weekends.  If Trafford was on today's Newstalk 1010 roster, he'd be #2, only behind Moore.

Last edited by g121 (November 30, 2022 10:25 am)