I'm guessing this one was a screw-up with the automation software. At 8:05 PM Wednesday, CFRB came out of a newsbreak and played the intro for "NewsTalk Tonight," with guest host Tamara Cherry. She launched into an opening about the Ukraine war, noting that it wasn't getting the coverage it should with the goings on in the Middle East. 

She was introducing a special guest to talk about the latest fighting but he never got a chance to say a word. For no explicable reason, the intro to "Newstalk Tonight" began again, with Tamara Cherry being re-introduced. She never said anything about the weird double intro (which I suspect means everything was pre-recorded) but brought on a new guest talking this time about the explosions in Iran. 

That ran for most of the next 13 minutes, but when they hit the hard break at 8:15, the professor she'd been speaking to got cut off in mid-sentence, and they went to traffic. (I'm guessing the computer had been programmed to go back to the local stations at that exact moment and the timing was off because of the earlier double intro.) The guy never got to finish his point, because when they came back, she intro'd yet another guest on an entirely different topic. Again, no acknowledgement about what happened. 

After the 10 PM news, they replayed the exact same Middle East expert that had been partially aired and cut off two hours earlier. This time, the whole thing aired, but at the end, the bumper music playing behind her was so loud that the last 30 secs. or so was completely inaudible, the second time it happened that evening. 

And to think this is a national show playing on Bell Media talk stations across the country! A big embarrassment and a real audio mess. Not the first time I've heard problems on this show, but this was definitely one of the worst.