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It should be obvious to anyone who’s listened long enough that radio has lost its way. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I just read an article by Alan Cross that nails one of the major problems. All of the cost cutting by the companies that run things means less live people …
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I don’t watch the local CTV news that much anymore, but after this week, it won’t be the same when I do tune in. another member of the people you expect to be around forever group isn’t going to be around forever after all. After 42 years, Dave MacDonald is retiring. He plans on entering …
Newsflash for those who may not know it yet. Bell Canada is a horrible company that doesn’t care about its customers and has no idea how the world works in 2011. exclusive deals to broadcast TV content on mobile devices encourage innovation and shouldn’t be banned? Have you paid no attention to the internet? The …
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So Ring of Honor, pretty much my favourite wrestling group right now, has been sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. this is an interesting situation. It sounds, for now at least, like they’re going about things the right way by leaving the current group in charge and adding experienced people who have a clue what …
This is great news. More local media options that are honest to god local is exactly what the world needs. I look forward to tuning in, provided the signal can find its way to my house. Residents of Centre Wellington will have their own radio station ! Centre Wellington Community Radio Inc., has received notification …
I don’t think you can live in Canada for any length of time without seeing Paul Henderson’s winning goal from 1972 at least once. It’s shown all the time, and Foster Hewitt’s “Henderson has scored for Canada!” is one of those things everybody seems to know even if they don’t know they know it. But …
Roger Abbott, one of the stars of Royal Canadian Air Farce, hasdied of leukemia at the age of 64. Definitely news I wasn’t expecting to hear today. I had no idea he was sick, but as it turns out almost nobody did. He was diagnosed 14 years ago and kept it secret from all but …
This,for lack of any better way to say it, is fuckin’ stupid. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council today released its decision concerning two episodes of South Park broadcast on the Comedy Network in March and April 2010. Both episodes were broadcast at 5:30 pm Eastern Time. The CBSC found that both episodes contained material that was intended …
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I said all I had to say on the topic of overly loud TV commercials whenthe United States took a step towards putting an end to them,so this post serves only to remind you of that and to answer the when is Canada going to do the same question. The answer, and thank Christ for …
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Well, we have a pretty sweet update to the whole stop the meter campaign. It looks like the CRTC has been quite heavily persuaded to review their whole usage-based billing decision in huge part thanks to the massive number of folks who yelled at MP’s and signed the Stop the Meter petition. Now they’re looking …
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