To end this thread, the final segment of Roy Green came back at 4:48 PM Sunday, more than an hour after the feed disappeared.(My guess - it took that long to get an engineer in on a Sunday to fix things.)  One of the longest outages I can recall on a Toronto radio station in a very long time.

newsguy1 wrote:

So weird, how is it that the fill in program was an ancient Adler program.
How did they even come to have one supposedly at the ready?

 

Sounds like they lost the link to the transmitter. Stations have an iPod running on a loop the the tx site as a last-resort backup; they frequently neglect to update them.

Dead air and Charles Adler?  One in the same me thinks....

 

No one could scowl like Tom Cherington. He had a basic dignity and seriousness about him too. Those days I was listening only on FM but for him and Paul Hanover (occasionally Wally) on the way to work.

btw, I heard the Roy Green Show calamity yesterday. It fell apart after the repeat airing of an interview with Kevin O'Leary, then Roy asked the audience to call in 'with your reaction' and went to commercial. The handling of the obvious technical difficulties was painful and tested patience. I shut the radio off and returned twice only to be astounded with the wily and dishonest voice of Charles Adler. When a station doesn't do their best or try to do their best I lose enthusiasm and become indifferent to its existence.

newsguy1 wrote:

Why do people still interview Kevin O'Leary.  He blew all credibility years ago when he pretended to run for prime minister, only to pathetically drop out.
But not before one horrendous gaffe when he was interviewed outside the Parliament buildings in Ottawa and referred to being on "Capitol Hill."
 

I think it's his enormous personal charisma, though his astute nautical prowess is also without peer.