Outside of a live local morning show on CFRB hosted by Jason Agnew and a nationwide broadcast of The Elias Makos Show from CJAD, as well as an early AM effort from Tim Denis on CKTB, all of the usual suspects on local radio were in rerun mode on Monday.

It can easily be argued that any potential audience may not have been in their cars going to work, with so many off for the made-up holiday, so why bring in a fully paid crew to do an actual show. And that's a fair point. But still, they were technically not eligible for overtime because it's not a stat and they were already being paid for the day, so it might not have cost the stations anything extra. 

Because "Family Day" is NOT a federal holiday. In fact, some places - like Quebec - don't celebrate it at all, which is why Makos was hard at work in La Belle Province in the first place. I received mail on Monday, also a federally regulated service, so the post office didn't get the day off. The CRTC's website was also updated on Monday, meaning their staff is in. Radio is also under the federal umbrella. So why did almost all of them get excused from working? 

Technically, if you work under federal legislation, you shouldn't really be getting the provincially created Family Day off. But almost all of the radio types in this town did. Even Vassy Kapelos' national show is a reroll. And she gets into areas of the country where this holiday doesn't even exist. 

I'm not begrudging the fine folks who toil in the salt mines of broadcasting an extra bonus holiday. But I'm not sure if they were actually entitled to one under the rules. Talk about getting the best of both worlds.