Tina Yazdani has been doing the live hits from Queens Park previous 7 nights I've viewed. Southern still on radio CityNews 680.

Richard Southern is still posting about DoFo's shit government policies on Twitter, including the latest about the growing Staples/Service Ontario debacle. Does Fordie boy have friends in charge of Rogers? That could be the reason why he's been muzzled and possibly made an example of.

But TV is a business first. I am not buying any products advertised until I see the fully restored Richard Southern and I have no reason to tune in at 6:40 until he returns. 

Well there's probably someone on this forum who works at City and can just casually check as to why Ritchie mysteriously vanished from the airwaves and isn't doing his popular segment with Erica any more.

He got taken off the air shortly after his blistering story on the ServiceOntario owner who was a dedicated lifelong supporter of the PCs until they canned her business to give it to Staples. "I've stuck by them my whole life. I'm finally done."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWjDmio_GA

Now in defense of Rogers, they'd have pulled this story off their youtube channel if it really had caused a major fit with Fordie boy and he'd put pressure on Rogers to shut him up. The fact that it's still up there might suggest it wasn't the cause (or just getting Richard to stop going after Ford on air was enough to send a message).

At any rate, the dual Ritchie and Erica segments at 5:25 and 6:37pm were easily the highlights of the CityNews broadcast, any excuse to stop those was a stupid decision from someone up top.

 

Radiowiz wrote:

The new Business news editor is Ari Rabinovitch.

I hope he's improved since his CTN days.

Jody Thornton wrote:

Sheesh!  He was just fine.  And he's really coming along as biz editor.
What was wrong with him?

I simply wasn't a fan and found his delivery style to be a bit blowhard-y.

I haven't heard his recent work to compare.