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I didn’t realize it, but Global Television turned 40 this year. It signed on on January 6th, 1974. Here’s a video history it put together on itself when it turned 25. Neat to see all that old footage, some of it for the first time. First 25 years of Global Television By the way, does …
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Yesterday, I got to be impressed with our local CTV news for the first time in a while. I was worried leading up to 6 o’clock that they would lead with Justin Bieber because he’s from around here, but instead they went with things much more important (the Quebec seniors’ home fire, to be specific). …
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CityTV is pretty well ruined now thanks to Rogers, but back in the day it used to be really damned awesome. They did TV completely differently from the way everyone else did/does it and even though I’m nowhere near the TV watcher I was then, I still miss it and still know how much that …
I can complain all day long about how uninspired and repetitive Canadian radio is, but at the same time I’m well aware that our American friends often have things much worse. And as this terribly depressing article points out, it’s getting even worse than ever as traditional broadcasters figure out how to compete with modern …
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I meant to post this last week, but here it is now. Oh well, a week is a marked improvement compared to how long it usually takes me to post things. I went to Accessibility Camp Toronto last Saturday. I love going to those things. I always pick up tidbits of information, plus get re-energized. …
I just heard the news that 97.7 HTZ FM’s Iron Mike Bensson died of cancer this morning. He was 60, which I never would have guessed. I’m shocked. Not shocked that he had cancer, but shocked that it took him. Shocked and sad. He put up a hell of a fight against it, from the …
I’ve known about 101.9 Dawg FM since it launched a few years ago, but for one reason or another I’d never tuned in to check it out until yesterday even though the idea of a full-time blues station sounded like one of the best things in the world to me. Suffice it to say, after …
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I missed this a couple of weeks ago when it was announced because summer and because that’s just how things tend to roll around here at the best of times anyway, but it’s still most definitely worth a mention especially to anybody who grew up on CKCO and now CTV Kitchener news like I did. …
Update: I still don’t have a percentage of the Canadian radio market that even more monstrous Bell holds following the sale, but have a look at the list of stations they’re taking over. Remember, this is just new stuff they own now. It’s not a list of stations they already had. Competitive broadcasting system, my …
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You’re Stephen Harper. You’ve just finished meddling in the business of the RCMP. What do you do now? If you said try to legislate your way into more tightly controlling the people who report on things like your meddling with the RCMP, you win. but those of us who don’t want to see the CBC …