DS4quality Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Local radio is just being decimated by the large telecoms. Today we are losing another chunk of local radio to poor management decisions made in another market. I gotta say I'm super bummed out about the sports radio landscape in Vancouver right now 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurn Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 3 minutes ago, DS4quality said: Local radio is just being decimated by the large telecoms. Today we are losing another chunk of local radio to poor management decisions made in another market. I gotta say I'm super bummed out about the sports radio landscape in Vancouver right now I was wondering why my car radio, set to a.m. 650 was playing the Jim Rome show. Halford and Brough must be just choked. Lose a job at the TEAM 1040, get a gig at Sportstnet, think you are good for a few years; go get car loan. Then presto, unemployed again. Sucks. 1 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurn Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Starting to wonder if some station takes a leap of faith, and hires Dan Russell to fill in a few hours of air time? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackcanuck Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 (edited) We are stuck listening to Nick Kypreos Leaf talk from 9AM to 11AM Kick Sportsnet to the curb and bring back 980 Edited September 29, 2021 by Mackcanuck 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriGold Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Poor Scotty let go... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Both Sportsnet and TSN have been awful over the past year or so. I'm still not over TSN getting rid of O'Toole 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackcanuck Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, AriGold said: Poor Scotty let go... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 WTH? so whats left for local coverage? is 650 still covering games on the radio or is that done too? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriGold Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Just now, JM_ said: WTH? so whats left for local coverage? is 650 still covering games on the radio or is that done too? I believe they're just trimming fat salaries, nothing else changes except some other guys will be brought in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurn Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 It was already a bit strange, Rintoul's show was being broadcast in Calgary, so for awhile he was having to "target" both audiences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post grumpyone Posted September 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 29, 2021 another prime example of how the braintrusts in the east could not care less about us on the best coast. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 All of your media relating to sports in the BC area/Vancouver area will now come out of New York or Toronto Think it was bad before just wait 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS4quality Posted September 29, 2021 Author Share Posted September 29, 2021 Is sportsnet trying to be cbs radio in Canada? Because I love local coverage, I don't need some Toronto heads who sleep through canucks games telling me about the team. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurn Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 I could be wrong, maybe Halford and Brough are ok and it is "just" Rintoul and Thurman? The links I've found about this all refer to the stuff that happened 6-7 months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 19 minutes ago, AriGold said: I believe they're just trimming fat salaries, nothing else changes except some other guys will be brought in. They should be trimming the fat salaries of useless executives, not the "fat" salaries of on air talent that make a fraction of what those executives make. Why do we even have the CRTC in Canada when this stuff keeps happening?!? What a useless organization the CRTC is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post -SN- Posted September 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 29, 2021 So 650, Home of the Canucks, just became Radio Toronto. Oh well, that's how radio dies in Vancouver. On the bright side we have: Donnie and Dhali 10am ChekNews. Sekeres and Price from 3pm (podcast). Rink Wide with JPat (podcast). 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patel Bure Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, -SN- said: So 650, Home of the Canucks, just became Radio Toronto. Oh well, that's how radio dies in Vancouver. On the bright side we have: Donnie and Dhali 10am ChekNews. Sekeres and Price from 3pm (podcast). Rink Wide with JPat (podcast). Will they still have Reach Deep? (Riccio, Diep, and Shah) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurn Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 (edited) Wonder what the Canuck organization thinks of this stuff.? Signed a deal with the station that had a certain line up, then that line up gets changed, multiple times. Anyone know how the ratings have been over the last while? Might be time to start looking for a new radio broadcaster. Edited September 29, 2021 by gurn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanuck Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 The writing was on the wall for this for quite some time. Anyone in radio should've known that they were going to 'centralize' (aka - cut costs) across the board eventually. It's no different than people acting shocked that newspapers all over the world were going bankrupt at the same time that on-line news formats were skyrocketing in popularity about 15 years ago. Centralized media and podcasts will be the future - regional/local broadcasters need to adapt or die sadly.....I'm not saying it's right or wrong - but it's the trend right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAZY_4_NAZZY Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Very disappointed, Rintoul and Surman + Jamie Dodd were doing such a great job. If anything this is making a very easy decision for the Canucks to choose CKNW when their broadcasting deal expires this summer with Sportsnet. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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