Tuesday, October 2, 2018

MEDIA-RELATED STUFF

    Yes, CBS 3 Philadelphia, having a paleontologist from the Philadelphia Zoo on your morning show talking about your soccer team’s mascot as if it’s a real dinosaur is totally appropriate and professional. Is it any wonder why the mainstream media is dying?

Broadcast Dialogue forgot to mention that new 95.5 FM Belleville afternoon drive host Emily Quesnelle was also previously an anncr on Cool 100 and 95.5.

Why should Golden West Broadcasting and CJNU Winnepeg have to apologize for airing a spot that talked about residential school myths? There are myths surrounding Canada’s residential schools. See my post “The Secret Life of Canada Sucks” for links containing more information about that.

My paraphrase of new CBC president Catherine Tait’s interview on “The Early Edition”: “We still have a lot of listeners and viewers for CBC Radio and Television, but they’re all older so in order to attract the younger demographic we’re going to shift everything online or over the top. We’re going to launch Gem, buy up the Canadian content from NetFlicks, CraveTV and such and become the only OTT service where you can see Canadian programming. We’re also going to eliminate commercial advertising because we won’t need it since we’ll be raising money through subscription fees to Gem and taxpayer dollars. Also, we need to develop more programming for kids and other groups of young people so we’ll be getting rid of the few programs for older people we haven’t done away with already.”

Picked up WDCX the other week, one day with “Haven Today” and the next day with “Walk in the Word.”

So Alana Cameron is now on the Mix 97 morning show after years at The Wolf followed by a stint reading news on the weekend for Quinte Broadcasting.

Is it just me, or does Donna Halper get more and more annoying each time she’s on the radio?

Picked up 1630 KCJJ last night.

CKLW was coming in really well last night.

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