Category: Reditorial

  • Reditorial — The Sad State Of Our Heritage

    Interesting letter to the Victoria Times-Colonist by David Mattison in response to this story about me donating interviews to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland: As a former archivist with the Royal B.C. Museum, I was surprised to read this remark by Vancouver rock ‘n’ roll DJ Red Robinson: “There is no…

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  • Reditorial: Your emails on CFUN

    Red, you are bang on with your Reditorial about the lights going out at CFUN and the broadcast biz as a whole. I’m truly thankful for my 15 years ON-AIR in radio and TV, including having worked mornings at CKWX with greats like yourself and Cam McCubbin. I learned so much, working alongside you and…

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  • Reditorial: Lights Out At CFUN

    I couldn’t let it go by. The evaporation of CFUN has to be among the greatest destructions of a radio station ever.  Every single employee is out the door (with the exception of Joe Leary) from the top Manager down through the ranks. Why should I care? Two reasons: first, I spent the best 8…

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  • Reditorial: Bean Counters Know Beans About Radio

    “Most radio stations today are spending a fortune they don’t have, all chasing the same ever shrinking sliver of the audience. In the meantime, generations that have grown up on radio and still consider it important in their lives are begging for programming that appeals to them. Yes, it’s a more difficult demo for radio…

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  • Reditorial: A Matter Of Opinion

    I really enjoyed Rodger Harding‘s recent article in Broadcast Dialogue magazine: “I cannot count how often I hear the words appropriate and inappropriate. If inappropriate is interpreted as anything that might offend others, then I guess it would be safe to say that anything extreme, strongly worded, risque, contentious, ambiguous etc. would be included.” Rodger…

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  • Reditorial: TV Crybabies

    Lately we have been inundated with TV networks asking us to Save Local Television. But what are the facts? Only a handful of corporations own most of the media in this country. They neglect to tell you that corporate headquarters are in Toronto, or Montreal or Winnipeg. They fail to tell you how much “local”…

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  • Reditorial: CRTC rules, radio suffers

    Puget Sound Radio reports CISL is extending its programming to include music and  features lost when 600AM became redundant. It is a smart move. You  have to understand that this great 50 plus audience has been totally ignored with the exception of CISL and 600AM. I applaud General Manager Brad Phillips on this strategic move.…

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  • Reditorial: Anything But Vanilla

    “A little love goes a long way.” That old saying is so appropriate in today’s broadcast scene. Most on-air performers are in it not for the money but for the love of the business. I began my career when radio was sexy. Today young people opt for the movie business, animation, the computer world, recording…

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  • Reditorial: CRTC climbs “The Peak”, makes a mess

    Vancouver is going to have a completely new landscape on the radio dial. In recent days the CRTC has come down with some approvals of requests made to the commission in the past six months. One of the big changes will be The Peak, Jim Pattison‘s new commercial FM station in Vancouver at 100.5 to…

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  • Reditorial: Rewriting History In Toronto

    In the Tuesday May 6th edition of the National Post, Jay Stone wrote an obituary for his father, broadcaster Phil Stone. Phil had a wonderful career by all appearances, but the article is totally wrong with respect that he was the first to play rock and roll records on the radio. Their quote: “On May…

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