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When they dropped audiobooks from premium a couple of years ago, I was ultimately ok with it. I wasn’t happy to see them go, but I didn’t listen to them nearly as much as I thought I might. It was nice to know they were there when I wanted them, but I mostly used the …
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A question for anyone who knows anything about or regularly listens to FM96. Short of the morning show that Corus has started syndicating to other cities so that they can get rid of even more people, does this station employ any actual, honest to god, real live human beings anymore? When I lived in the …
Radio hasn’t always been centralized and computerized to death the way it is now, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t been automated to some degree practically forever. That process is obviously much easier these days than it used to be, but how did they manage to pull this stuff off before everything was digital? …
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This is a pretty cool thing that SiriusXM is doing, but I may not take advantage of it. I know if I get myself hooked on it I’m going to want to pay for it. I realize that’s kind of the point, but I ought not make myself want to spend money on more things …
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I’m glad that 570 News seems to have finally edited that commercial where the woman is plugging a trip to Spain and says “it truly is a once in a lifetime experience. I can’t wait to go back.” Yes, she really did say that and nobody caught it. How do you miss a mistake that …
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Does anyone else laugh a little when they’re listening to 680 or 570 News and a business report hosted by Richard Debtman comes on? Really? Money info from a guy named Debtman? I’d better pay attention! It’s a little disappointing when you Google him and find out it’s actually spelled Dettman, but he’s always going …
Question for whomever wrote those ZipRecruiter commercials on the radio: The part where you give out the special web address ZipRecruiter.com/canada and then have the voice guy spell out the word Canada, who is that for, exactly? We’re in Canada. Anyone in a position to need that address is probably going to know how to …
It’s not beefy home run in your mouth territory, but lord, those find an eye doctor ads that poor Ben and Mike have to read on air every day are their own brand of awful. I cringe every time because I’ve done my own share of reading on the radio and I know how hard …
Dear CBC KW: Reporting a temperature of 22 and a humidex of 24 is just as silly as 680 news and their two degree windchill. You’ve been doing this all week. Please stop.
Why in the world would you use a song called A Little Less Conversation as bumper music when the entire reason you’re on the radio requires there to be as much conversation as possible? I’ve heard several of you do this and it’s never made sense. Please don’t tell me you’ve never thought about it. …