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I’m in Love! Love is blind! Re-visited!!!!
5 years ago today, I wrote this blog about Canada’s 150th Birthday. It has aged surprisingly well….
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The Real Roy Hennessy
The second Program Director and the first General Manager I reported to was Roy Hennessy. He was my PD at CHED Edmonton and he gave me my first PD job at CITI Winnipeg. To say Roy was fun to work with is an inadequate description. Radio was no different than Hollywood with Roy. His people…
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Saskatchewan’s Super 8 is 100 years old!!!
It’s not often a radio station celebrates 100 years on the air!!! Congrats to CHAB!
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Stittsville’s Land Boom
I’ve always loved building. Houses, towers, stadiums, overpasses, bridges. Here’s an essay on deconstruction, to start anew.
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Bell Media’s Bad Timing
It was a depressing day for many of us in radio on Thursday. Certainly for all those affected by the news that Bell is selling 45 of their 100+ stations and laying off thousands of employees in the division. True, OTA Televison and Network News is in deep quicksand if I’m being honest. The revenue…
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Farewell Mr Fullwell
“I’m looking forward to meeting you. See you at Tim’s then on the Bedford highway”. And so my relationship with Scott Bodnarchuk began. It was a cold day in 2011 and I’ll always remember that first meeting. He was easy to spot sitting at a small table with his large presence, business casual attire and…
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Think I’ll go out to Alberta
I was away last week on a 4 day trip to Edmonton to see my Mom! She spent a few unpleasant weeks in hospital in March but has rallied medically enough to be back at my sister’s place in St. Albert. Sadly, that’s not the long term answer for her living arrangements. At 91, she…
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Good Morning, I’m your live, local, powered by predictive AI morning host
Imagine a future where you wake up and turn on your favorite radio station and the first thing you hear is a computer generated voice greeting you with the Joey Tribbiani, “hey, how you doin’?” It’s going to happen. Maybe sooner than we think. OK, maybe not Joey’s voice. For the sceptics, think about this,…
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Rolling Stones Unzipped
Rolling Stones fans will LOVE the exhibit of nearly 300 articles at #THEMUSEUM in Kitchener entitled #Unzippedkw In terms of quality, this finely curated collection of Stones photos, equipment, instruments, posters, song and lyric sheets, album art and posters, stage fashion wardrobes and a few other visual treats like a replica recording studio and a…
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We’ve moved again!
Relocating has never been an uncomfortable concept to us. In 40 years of marriage we’ve sold and bought and rented 10 homes. Up until now, our residential adventures have exclusively been the result of a new employment opportunity for me. Although there were times we’d have preferred not to move, in hindsight, it was always…
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First Flight in 2 years
Up until this weekend, the last time I was on a plane? November 21st 2019. None of us knew what was coming so that occasion went uncelebrated. I went to Jamaica with my son. Back then, I took a short haul from Ottawa to Toronto on a Saturday night and stayed at an airport hotel…