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Does Chatter Matter That Much???
Tony Chapman has a show on Newstalk 1010 called Chatter That Matters.
I believe he's on every Friday at noon in place of Vassy and the show is also presented as a podcast.
Mr. Chapman is voicing a promo about his show & in it he tells us his podcast is now rated in the top one per cent in the world. The top one per cent in the WORLD!!
Really??
Pretty heady stuff if true
I like the guy and think he does good work but can this be true? Who does the measuring & where would I find the numbers to corroborate his claim?
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I suspect the podcasts are piped through all RBC offices as a mandatory policy matter. As in the DPRK, workers may lower the volume of the braying but cannot turn it off.
Based on this, they can claim it is popular. But 'heady'? Certainly not.
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Incidentally, I believe the terrestrial radio airing of "Chatter That Matters" across various Bell stations is drawing to a close. In promos for the show airing on 1010, Chapman states that after some date (I think November 1st), one will need to listen to the show via a podcast feed instead of on a radio station. Not sure what plans the stations have to air in its place, but since the show is so heavily RBC-supported, maybe they've re-evaluated where they're spending their dollars.
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AspectRatio wrote:
Incidentally, I believe the terrestrial radio airing of "Chatter That Matters" across various Bell stations is drawing to a close. In promos for the show airing on 1010, Chapman states that after some date (I think November 1st), one will need to listen to the show via a podcast feed instead of on a radio station. Not sure what plans the stations have to air in its place, but since the show is so heavily RBC-supported, maybe they've re-evaluated where they're spending their dollars.
That appears to be exactly what happened. Tony Chapman was on 'RB Friday promoting his last radio-aired show, and admitted that RBC had decided to change the allocation of its funding and he had no choice but to take it off the air, though the podcast will continue. So it was a paid time show.
As to what will take its place at noon next Friday, they didn't say. We do know Vassy Kapelos gets Fridays off to prep for Question Period on CTV, so they have an hour to fill. I'll be curious to discover what takes its place.
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Incidentally, I believe the terrestrial radio airing of "Chatter That Matters" across various Bell stations is drawing to a close. In promos for the show airing on 1010, Chapman states that after some date (I think November 1st), one will need to listen to the show via a podcast feed instead of on a radio station. Not sure what plans the stations have to air in its place, but since the show is so heavily RBC-supported, maybe they've re-evaluated where they're spending their dollars.
That appears to be exactly what happened. Tony Chapman was on 'RB Friday promoting his last radio-aired show, and admitted that RBC had decided to change the allocation of its funding and he had no choice but to take it off the air, though the podcast will continue. So it was a paid time show.
As to what will take its place at noon next Friday, they didn't say. We do know Vassy Kapelos gets Fridays off to prep for Question Period on CTV, so they have an hour to fill. I'll be curious to discover what takes its place.
Dead air would be an improvement on the smarmy paid promotion of Chapman's drivel. It was 'must-miss' radio every Friday. Competing stations must have loved it.
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So now we know what's replaced "Chatter That (No Longer) Matters" at noon on Fridays over CFRB. It's an extended two-hour "Free For All" with Amanda Galbraith, although the first hour appears to be more interviews than an elongated 60-minute "Roundtable" that follows at 1 PM.