When you leave the radio plane on auto-pilot and it doesn't work, you can easily crash. That's what happened on NT1010 Sunday night - at least for the ten minutes or so I heard that was simply inexplicable. 

I tuned in at 10:52 PM and encountered a very long period of dead air. That went on for at least a minute (and it could have been happening for a while before I switched on the radio) before John Moore came on to conclude an interview with author Linwood Barclay. That was followed by another Moore intro, this time with TVO's Steve Paikin, who began talking about his new book. 

That, alas, did not last long. The interview was suddenly cut off, some very odd music came on, followed immediately by, of all things, what sounded like a baseball broadcast recap. They never said the source, but I tuned to TSN 1050 and it was not from them. That aired for at least 30 secs. to a minute, before more odd music came on, followed by a host of very muddy-sounding spots that were definitely not for products you could buy in Canada. 

The spots disappeared after about two more minutes, taken over by local Toronto commercials. The ads went on well past 11 PM, at which point the CTV National News was joined in progress. 

All in all, it was one of the worst fuster-clucks I've heard on any station in a very long time.

I was listening. Clearly, no one who works at the station seemed to be. What an embarrassing mess!