Gotta go with WHAM out of Rochester.

I love morning radio programming that is 50% ads and 30% of the show host sputtering and stammering filler words.

I don't mind John but he does sound too much like a lawyer on air.  He is better when he is a little less formal.  He does have a sense of humour about himself which comes through from time to time.  Also like when he occasionally puts Jerry Agar in his place.    

Monday morning, Moore or less.

Time to play "Spin the dial!"

A far cry from "Ontario's Authoritative News Voice", its a shame what CFRB has become.

Agree!
 

RadioActive wrote:

Next week, their entire morning is up in the air. Tory continues for Moore while Deb Hutton has been announced as subbing for Jerry Agar when he goes on vacation. Not yet clear who will be taking her place at 2, but last time Jim Richards was off, she did all four hours, so perhaps Richards will return the favour. 

They're working overtime to make the station as unlistenable as possible.
 

Chrisphen wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

Next week, their entire morning is up in the air. Tory continues for Moore while Deb Hutton has been announced as subbing for Jerry Agar when he goes on vacation. Not yet clear who will be taking her place at 2, but last time Jim Richards was off, she did all four hours, so perhaps Richards will return the favour. 

They're working overtime to make the station as unlistenable as possible.''
 

Mission accomplished.

 

Last edited by Walter (July 30, 2024 5:43 pm)

A very weird moment on Toronto radio Wednesday. While John Tory was pontificating about bike lines on CFRB around 8:38 AM, at the exact same moment on AM640 was - John Tory, talking about why the city wouldn't be bidding for the Olympics. 

Now admittedly, the latter clip was when Tory was mayor in 2016, but what an odd juxtaposition to have the same voice on two competing stations at the same time on the prominent morning shows. 

640's Greg Brady must have understood the absurdity of the situation, coming back on and saying something like "Not sure who that voice was, but I do understand what he was saying."

Something that could only happen in Toronto radio.

It's weird to hear the guy on against you on the same format given any time on your station. 

But it isn't unprecedented. in fact, one of the greatest things I ever heard on radio involved something like this, but it was done for a laugh. 

It was back in the mid-70s, when the legendary Dan Ingram was killing it in the afternoon drivetime ratings on WABC in New York, with also-ran WNBC trying hard to nip at his heels. This was in the radio era where you never, ever acknowledged that your competitor even existed. 

It was a winter afternoon, just after 5 PM, so both stations were coming in here. At some point and for reasons never explained, NBC's afternoon guy, the late great Bob Vernon (aka "Vernon With A V") suddenly played the "Dan Ingram! 77 W-A-B-C!" jingle on air. 

He then came back on and in a very deep but overly-affected announcer's voice, he intoned, "Dan Ingram is not here. Nor do we know where you can find him. Thank you." And then into an NBC jingle and a song. 

I was stunned at first, then laughing out loud. I'd never heard anyone do that before and especially in what is arguably the #1 most competitive market in the world. It was so unusual, I stll remember it all these years later. But man, was it funny. 

AM640's journey into the same territory wasn't amusing - it was just odd. 

There have been other moments when Toronto stations have talked about each other from years ago.  

Gordon Sinclair in one of his many editorials was complaining how Canadian radio stations didn't play Canadian music.  This of course was prior to the regs.  Sinclair said the only station that he knew of that  regularly supported Canadian music was CHUM.  And he mention their call letters more than once in the editorial. 

I remember hearing an aircheck of Jim Van Horne on CHUM commenting how mellow his music was.    He said he thought maybe he had Bill Deegans records by mistake.  Bill was on at the same time on CFRB.

Outside of this weekend, you'll get another chance to hear him 5-days in a row. He's taking Alex Pierson's place while she's off for two weeks. I believe Adam Zivo takes over next week, with Mulroney the week after. 

Listener wrote:

I am wondering if this is a permanent position for him and where is Alan Carter??  Why let him go then and have a replacement?  Alan was very good.

It might be that Antony is cheaper than Alan was - simple economics. Or, Antony is rotating doing a multitude of duties and can do that on one salary.