It's happened twice now. CBC plays a movie starting after the CFL game and I get sucked into watching a 1970s or '80s or 90s epic thinking it will be over at, say 12:30 pm, because no one in his right mind would play a movie that lasts three and a half or four hours. I don't even really like …

So I am working away today, listening to fabulous North Country Public Radio and I realize I have been half-listening to hours of coverage of Stephen Hawking new idea about black holes. These hours of half-interested listening have had a few effects:  •  I am not arguing with the radio in my mind …

It had been getting a bit crappier than I was comfortable with lately due to cuts but Clear Channel affiliate WWTI ABC announced today that it was cutting its 6 pm and 11 pm news broadcasts to focus on hourly updates and weather...oh, and the internet. [I think they will be investing in the use of …

There is an interesting piece on the CBC's website on the use of Scots as characters in Canadian advertising these days. For a first generation kid like me, it really is nothing new but it is quite true that there is a bit of a wave going on the noo:  •  “It's hard not to notice these characters …

CBC radio is doing some fancy footwork during the summer and playing something other than repeats. I caught Sunny Days and Nights on Saturday morning which is largely a reprise of the characters from the mid to late 1990's Great Eastern - obit for the show here. Both shows are from fictional …

I am not mad because they allowed Al-Jazeera to broadcast in Canada. I am mad because they barred RAI - the Italian national television network. Why must we be saved from Italian TV. Why does the CRTC do these things including shutting CHOI radio in Quebec for doing things no one really cares …

Radio, like the telephone, is one of the great marvels of the electronic era. Enemy of the dictator. Friend to the housebound. Stats Canada released a report yesterday detailing the boom that private radio in Canada is experiencing. Even AM is breaking out:  •  “The performance of AM stations …

Well, its an election night. I am not a political animal. I am not an election freak. I am, however, an election coverage nerd of the highest order.   Best line so far for coverage is from the Globe and Mail:  •  “Like maps? We've got them.”  •  That's is like a mickey of rum to the penniless wino …

Boing reminds us of number stations, the Soviet era sortwave broadcasts like an unending bingo game without the letters - adjunct to their public broadcasts. I listened in bed late at night as an early teen in '75 to the isolated East Germans and Albanians sending back the news in code from …