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With the exception of Dave Bradley, 640 Toronto relieved its entire newsroom of their duties.
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I suppose that's not a surprise. So what are they going to do for newscasts now - Canadian Press? Nothing? Maybe they can get Oakley's producer to read it. What a sad state radio is in. This is terrible news - and there's no one left to report it!
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Who will be left to cover the next three Taylor Swift concerts?
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Only a matter of time before it suffers the same fate as CHML.
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Toronto Mike's sources say Kelly Cutrara has done her last show, as has Dani Stover, whose "Let's Talk" airs after 7 PM. Unknown yet what will take its place.
Mike says Ben Mulroney finally gets a fulltime show in Cutrara's timeslot. with Alex Pierson shifting to 12-3 PM. If that's true, there goes Toronto This Weekend, which Mulroney hosted at 7 AM on Saturday and Sundays and was one of the few good things to listen to in that timeslot.
I like Mulroney a lot and wanted him to get a regular slot. But not necessarily at the price of the others being fired.
None of the apparent changes are reflected on the AM 640 radio Schedule Page as of yet.
Toronto Mike: Massive Changes At AM 640
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CHML was down to 3 principal advertisers when they closed and 1 of those was a roofing company on the weekend afternoon only. (The other was Don Fox, whose pitches were heard twice an hour around the clock whenever I tuned in, and the 3rd I strangely can't remember right now)
AM640 has 5 maybe 6 staple sponsors. The two most recent are a penis problem company and an outfit from the poverty industry. This change was unavoidable and somewhat late to my mind. Oh, and I would have kept Cutrara as she is the better talent. Pearson has crutches she repeats endlessly it's annoying.
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km93 wrote:
Only a matter of time before it suffers the same fate as CHML.
No. This is Toronto. There might be a multicultural station that would love to shut down THEIR (weaker) signal and move to 640.
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Haven't listened to 640 all that much recently but I liked Kelly Cutrara, and am sorry to hear she was let go.
I'm sure more re-rolls or paid programming will replace Ben Mulroney's weekend morning show, since I'm not sure anyone besides RA was listening.
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I'm sure more re-rolls or paid programming will replace Ben Mulroney's weekend morning show, since I'm not sure anyone besides RA was listening.
I'm expecting paid programming.
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Cuts out west, too, with one host who had been on air there for 27 years.
Longtime Calgary radio host Rob Breakenridge cut by Corus
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Cuts out west, too, with one host who had been on air there for 27 years.
Longtime Calgary radio host Rob Breakenridge cut by Corus
There’s also a longtime weatherman at Global Calgary, Paul Dunphy who is stepping down, he’s been at 2&7 since 1985. Not sure if it’s related or if he just decided to retire.
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The on-air changes are already in place. Dani Stover's "Let's Talk" has been replaced by - what else? - a reroll of Alex Pierson's show, which aired from 9 AM - 12 PM on Wednesday. (It was actually from Tuesday by the sound of it.) I'm presuming it will be in its new time slot beginning Thursday. But they sure aren't giving listeners a chance to get used to the idea.
Ironic that the final promo Kelly Cutrara did for the station before taking a few days off went something like this:
"Hi. this is Kelly Cutrara. some of the subjects on my next show will be - well, wait a minute, I don't have any topics. I'm off and Ben Mulroney will be sitting in in my place."
Little did she know how right she was.
And one last thing - I just heard Danny Longo do the 9 PM news. But I also heard him at noon and during the afternoon drive. After the newsroom blood bath, he appears to be the only one left, except for Dave Bradley. Is he really working a 9-hour shift? Or are they taping the later newscasts now? If the latter, that's a really, really dangerous thing to do if anything happens.
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Ironic that the final promo Kelly Cutrara did for the station before taking a few days off went something like this:
"Hi. this is Kelly Cutrara. some of the subjects on my next show will be - well, wait a minute, I don't have any topics. I'm off and Ben Mulroney will be sitting in in my place."
Little did she know how right she was.
Not nearly as ironic as CHML encouraging listeners to tune in on the iHeartRadio app right before the announcement of them shutting down.
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