I only know of Syrett from his conspiracy show that aired on AM740 after Big Band Sunday Night. I found him entertaining although I didn’t always buy what he was selling!

Is Ed the Sock available?  Maybe even a smelly old sweat sock?  Does it really matter when no one is listening?

He joins the Oblivion Pantheon of other far-right pundits leaving the public airwaves for the internet, such as Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly. 

Lotsa luck, loser.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

sauga should have just went ethnic.
Who even owns it?
Is it ravinder singh panu?

I'm curious. What is your apparent obsession with every station for sale going ethnic? It's a limited format and won't work for everybody. I think there are already way too many of them in the GTA as it is, almost all of them paid program time. I cannot imagine more of these ethnic outlets you seem to want competing with each other and any of them making enough money to survive. 

According to many of your posts, Whiteoaks should take most of the stations foreign language or religious and move on from there. 

We already have three CHINs doing multi-lingual shows, RED-FM, CJRK-FM in Scarborough, CJSA-FM aka CMR, CJMR, CHKT, (Chinese), CIRF in Brampton, CHLO on 530 AM also in Brampton, CHHA the Spanish speaker at 1610, CINA in Mississauga for Indian ex-pats, CHTO for the Greeks at 1690 and of course, our old friend CHAM doing the Indo-Canadian community proud.

Not to mention WTOR from Youngstown, New York, which aims its ethnic programming towards Toronto. And yes, Sauga 960 already does ethnic programming in certain dayparts.

And I probably left out one or two. 

Do we really need more of these? Can the market even support this many? I hope Whiteoaks tries something different with their new toys - but not this.

RadioActive wrote:

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

sauga should have just went ethnic.
Who even owns it?
Is it ravinder singh panu?

I'm curious. What is your apparent obsession with every station for sale going ethnic? It's a limited format and won't work for everybody. I think there are already way too many of them in the GTA as it is, almost all of them paid program time. I cannot imagine more of these ethnic outlets you seem to want competing with each other and any of them making enough money to survive. 

According to many of your posts, Whiteoaks should take most of the stations foreign language or religious and move on from there. 

We already have three CHINs doing multi-lingual shows, RED-FM, CJRK-FM in Scarborough, CJSA-FM aka CMR, CJMR, CHKT, (Chinese), CIRF in Brampton, CHLO on 530 AM also in Brampton, CHHA the Spanish speaker at 1610, CINA in Mississauga for Indian ex-pats, CHTO for the Greeks at 1690 and of course, our old friend CHAM doing the Indo-Canadian community proud.

Not to mention WTOR from Youngstown, New York, which aims its ethnic programming towards Toronto. And yes, Sauga 960 already does ethnic programming in certain dayparts.

And I probably left out one or two. 

Do we really need more of these? Can the market even support this many? I hope Whiteoaks tries something different with their new toys - but not this.

From experience with neeti, A broadcaster that mostly runs ethnic stations will go behind the CRTC's back and swich to ethnic.
And, I said they should just swich to ethnic because in 2019 or 20, they applied for a half-time ethnic license and there talk programs are just low quolity, lower than 1010.
640 is better than them.
They have just became to far-right for canadian am radio.
And who's the real owner?
Is it sur sagar and ravinder singh panu?
Is it eliot ker?
Is it radio dhun?

Stefanie wrote:

RA....Good point! It's also curious that Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 sometimes has perfect spelling/sentence structure and other times, not so much. My belief is that this person is misrepresenting their identity, as I noted a number of months ago..

I've never seen a fully correctly spelled post from Sbr99, who has gone on the record stating they use a voice to text type program due to their visual impairment.

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Campaign Desk wrote:

Peter Shurman and Mike Stafford are both available...

Stafford would be a smart call
 

I haven't monitored Sauga960 in a while since this was originally posted. 

At least they've finally stopped airing Best-ofs Richard Syrett shows (if there ever were any of those!)

But wait until you hear what they've finally replaced them with - rerolls of Marc Patrone's morning program!

Yep, the morning drive show and the afternoon drive show are now one and the same. Can't say I've ever heard of any station ever doing something like this. If they were a joke before, now they're not even a punchline. Who runs a station in this way and how are they still in business?

Sauga960 Schedule
 

Imagine thinking Syrett's content is worthy for rebroadcast. Waterheaded doesn't begin to describe it. I suspect there's some shady shenanigans afoot at this station.

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Paul Jeffries wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

Yep, the morning drive show and the afternoon drive show are now one and the same. Can't say I've ever heard of any station ever doing something like this. 

When CKOC was in its final days as a Top 40 station they had Pete Daly doing morning and afternoon drive, although I believe both shows were live. Is Sauga960's afternoon show live or just a reroll of the morning show? I notice it says "Live", but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.



PJ

It's a rerun of the morning's show. 
 

Just when you thought this couldn't be any more ludicrous, I tuned in to the Marc Patrone morning show on Friday for about two minutes. And guess what? It was a reroll of Thursday's program, with the host even thanking the audience for listening on "Thursday, July 31st!"

So not only did they air this same show live in the morning the previous day, it ran again during afternoon drive the day before, too. And then they reran it on Friday morning - and I have to assume they'll be running it again in the afternoon drive slot! Four repeats of the same program in the two most key time slots in all of radio on a station whose signal can be heard easily in the top market in Canada!

How are they still making any profit? Who's programming this thing? Wow.