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Story behind Moose FM in Elliot Lake winning RTDNA Best Newscast Award
From where I sit On The Kowch, I was very pleased with the decision of the RTDNA judges to honour The Moose 94.1FM in Elliot Lake, Ontario with the Byron MacGregor Award - Best Newsca...
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"AJ called me in tears right after it happened ... at least he had someone to call and support him during a MISTAKE instead of kick him when he was down" - AJ's journalism professor
From where I sit On The Kowch, I feel for former North Dakota's KFV...
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How I learned something new about covering breaking news on radio by watching TV coverage of Boston Marathon bombing
From where I sit On The Kowch, the Boston Marathon bombing ushered in a new era of breaking news coverage on television. The Boston Globe...
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How Twinkle Rudberg founded LOVE after her husband's murder to make the world a safer place
From where I sit On the Kowch, I have too many memories of dead people I never knew. As a Montreal newspaper reporter in the late '60s, '70s and part of the '80s,...
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Montreal Radio's Great Tombstone April Fools Joke
From where I sit On The Kowch, I always look forward to April Fools jokes on the radio. There have been some great stunts pulled on listeners. I want to tell you about the one I pulled on Quebec anglophon...
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Your guide to when men and women listen to different radio formats
From where I sit On The Kowch, trying to figure out your station's tuning top hours is something that preoccupies the time of a program director and the sales manager. More times than not...
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Great Radio Begins Here at www.workinginradio.com
From where I Sit On The Kowch, there is a great new website for students at The School of Media Studies & Information Technology at Humber College to showcase their talent to potential employers. It's...
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Radio needs a good game plan to keep listeners happy during a snow storm
From where I sit On The Kowch, winter storms are when radio stations earn the respect of listeners or their wrath. If we do a good job, it's expected. If we let them down in their t...
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How great expectations get in the way of accepting new job offers
From where I sit On The Kowch, one of the first things you need to do when looking for work after losing your job in radio is to manage expectations. This is especially true when you're 5...
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Has radio killed the dream I dreamed in time gone by?
From where I sit On The Kowch, I admit I can be a Pollyanna when it comes to radio. How else can you explain my blindly optimistic take on the future of radio - especially when it comes to the next ge...
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35 years ago I received the best Christmas present ever: birth of my daughter Melissa-Dawn
From where I sit On The Kowch, I received my best Christmas present ever, in 1977. It was so great, I wrote about it in The Montreal Gazette. The original December...
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New PPM survey links radio formats to products and services listeners buy
From where I sit On The Kowch, research is key to the success of your radio station. That's why I look forward to the Astral Research PPM rating videos they produce. It's not just ...
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A lot of people appear to be happy about my involvement with Montreal's new English newstalk radio station
From where I sit On The Kowch, I thought it would be fun to share what everyone else is saying about my involvement in a project with TTP Media to ...
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War on disruptive use of laptops coming soon to my Humber and Seneca classrooms
From where I sit On The Kowch, York University Professor Henry Kim is my new hero. Let this be a warning for my students at The School of Communications Arts, Seneca@York Col...
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Now THIS is an interview worth watching
From where I sit OnThe Kowch, the Conrad Black interview on the BBC is a classic case of how to DO an interview. Not just because the interviewer had the balls to call a spade a spade for calling Conrad Black a con...
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CRTC needs to protect private radio jobs by saying NO to CBC's request to air commercials on Radio 2
From where I Sit On The Kowch, it's an all out war between private radio and the CBC at the November CRTC hearings to renew the broadcast license of ...
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BBM testing measurement of live streaming on Toronto radio station websites
From where I sit On The Kowch, I have often wondered how many people actually listen to radio online. Whether it be on computers at work or on other platforms including hand held...
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British tabloid battle to publish nude photos of Prince Harry reminds me of my fights to talk about things on the radio
From where I sit On The Kowch, the debate about whether or not British newspapers should cave in to demands from Buckingham Palace to ...
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Play by Play of Toronto radio's coverage of the 2005 Air France crash landing at Toronto's Pearson Airport
From where I sit On The Kowch, I was thinking back to seven years ago this month when an Air France Airbus A340-300 with 309 people on board crash ...
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London Olympics brings back memories of Montreal Olympics
From where I sit On The Kowch, watching the London 2012 Olympics my thoughts go back to when the Olympics came to Montreal in 1976 and Calgary in 1988. I have fond memories of both Olympics. As a ...
