The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Who Gets Your Vote On Monday Night? What To Expect On TV & Radio

**Posted by TheWiz** April 29, 2025 6:58 am

RadioActive wrote:
I agree, but the point remains: TV audio does not work on the radio. Never has, never will. If you're going to do coverage - even for a small audience - they deserve to be able to follow what's going on. Otherwise, why bother?

I agree RA. Radio rarely gets any consideration during a simulcast with TV. One thing that really bothers me, which no one ever talks about, is how bad TV audio sounds on radio. With all the compression radio uses, the audio comes out with way too much echo and background noise. As someone who spent most of their career working with audio, I find it extremely annoying .

**Posted by mace** April 29, 2025 9:00 am

leafs67 wrote:
I will be streaming CHCH's coverage on http://parrot.tv. Parrot is another FAST service I use since cutting the cord. On another thread which I cannot find at the moment, a user recommended http://tvpass.org, if you guys remember who it was, thank them for the tip!

It might have been me. It is run by the same folks that brought you thetvapp.to. They offer a paid service that has more channels and a guarantee against bufferring and complete shutdown. This occasionally happens in primetime with an abundance of NHL and NBA playoff games overloading the system. I investigated their subscription service which was quite reasonably priced. However, bitcoin is the only payment accepted. Hard pass.

**Posted by Aytononline** April 29, 2025 9:13 am

I basically stuck with CTV on there youtube channel. I thought CTV did okay, but maybe to many talking heads. I think Elections Canada website crashed in the early evening. I tried to get on but could not.
CBC has the best user friendly website in my opinion.

**Posted by TomTV** April 29, 2025 12:33 pm

I also watched CTV coverage mostly, but tuned into City and Global's coverage periodically when the talking heads kept going on and on...

Funniest moment of last night for me: it looks like CTV was the first to declare that the Liberals would win the election then they asked their reporter who was in attendance at Liberal HQ why weren't the Liberal supporters celebrating?

After a few moments they realized that the Liberals weren't watching the CTV election coverage but watching another station's coverage instead (not a big shock, CTV has been the biggest pro-Conservative supporter out of all the stations during the election run, even right now for their noon newscast they've been slanting their reporting more towards unhappy PC voters, talking about PP's record-breaking support, the fact that the PCs broke through in Ontario, etc. barely anything positive said about Carney).

Once CTV saw the Libs suddenly cheering, they realized that whatever rival news station they were watching had now also declared that the Liberals were the winners and the anchor had to chime in and remind viewers "but we called the win first" lol.

**Posted by RadioAaron** April 29, 2025 12:42 pm

The same thing happened on CBC, which is what the Liberals were watching. The signal was just so delayed from their HQ to the station and back again that the effect what the same.

**Posted by RadioActive** April 29, 2025 7:11 pm

CBC and CTV Say 2025 Election Night Broke Viewership Records

**Posted by arc23** April 29, 2025 8:38 pm

Aytononline wrote:
Very impressed with how CTV went from a local newscast to a National show in the same studio. (At least, I think it's in the same space.) With no real space between shows.

Actually, you could tell by the way they moved elements of the newscast around that they probably pre-taped the last half earlier because they did their news run down of the top stories around 6:25 When they normally leave when it run It at around 6:40 p.m. So they did use about half an hour to move things around

**Posted by paterson1** May 1, 2025 9:00 am

Some more ratings information from Bill Brioux on the election Monday. Looks like City TV coverage didn't draw that well. With no Canadian teams playing Monday in the NHL playoffs numbers for the Lightning/Panthers and Avalance/Stars games were on the low end. More from brioux.tv..https://brioux.tv/blog/2025/04/30/cbc-ctv-dominate-ratings-in-federal-election-coverage/