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CRTC Application Hearings underway in Toronto for 88.1FM
From where I sit On the Kowch, here are the highlights of the Tietolman Tetrault Pancholy Media presentation at the Toronto CRTC application hearings for 88.1FM:
"Tietolman Tetrault Pancholy Med...
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Humble & Fred is the best radio show not on the radio
From where I sit On The Kowch, I have seen the future when it comes to the next step in a radio announcer's career after they get fired. For me there was life after radio with my consulting compan...
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Low morale in media is the fault of management who don't listen to their staff
From where I sit On The Kowch, there are a lot of unhappy people these days working in the media.
There are days after I speak to people in the media about how unhappy they a...
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24/7 Christmas music is a radio ratings winner
From where I sit On The Kowch, we now have a definitive answer to the question does playing Christmas music 24/7 help the ratings of that radio station. Thanks to the Astral Research Winter PPM Webinar the a...
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22 groups battle for last FM license in Toronto
From where I sit On The Kowch, my last appearance before the CRTC in October will now look like a cake walk compared to what I'm facing the week of May 7th when I participate in my second application hearin...
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Doesn't matter what you blog about me as long as you get my URL right
From where I sit On The Kowch, it's time to wrap up the month long celebration of our first anniversary as a consultant. We generated a lot of positive interest in kowchmedia through m...
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Week of racism in US media
KFI suspends two hosts for calling Whitney Houston a crack ho
ESPN fires writer of a headline calling Jeremy Lin a Chink
From where I sit On The Kowch, last week just went from bad to worse with racist comments in the US medi...
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Campus and community radio stations should not drop CAB Code of Ethics
From where I sit On The Kowch, the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) is on a collision course with reality when it comes to replacing the Canadian Association of ...
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Proof that radio is alive and well
From where I sit On The Kowch, radio isn't dead. The naysayers like to say it is. But Arbitron has released a study to show radio is alive and well south of the border. And I believe these figures are representative of ...
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You know you're listening to bad radio when ....
From where I sit On The Kowch, you're listening to bad radio when ...
announcer talks about technical problems in the studio all the time
a co-host has to explain to someone sitting in for a regular an...
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When a movie hits close to home it's probably a good idea to go and see it
From where I sit On The Kowch, sometimes art imitates life. This is the case in a new movie staring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner and Craig T. Nelson. The movie is c...
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Make sure colour commentator doesn't use coaching terms when explaining what happened
This week I want to talk about how a hockey play by play announcer should use their colour commentator.
I have worked with a few colour commentators who think they ar...
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If I can reinvent myself .... you can too
2011 was the year I got off the couch and did something with my life
From where I sit On The Kowch, 2011 was a year of reflection, reinventing myself to take advantage of new opportunities and proving that the...
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What really happens to the audience when commercials come on the radio
From where I sit On The Kowch, a new study by Arbitron and Coleman Insights in the US about what happens when radio goes to a commercial break confirms my suspicions that the younger ...
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Flu Season is a shot in the arm for talk radio
From where I sit On The Kowch, flu season makes for great talk radio.
From SARS in 2003 to the Swine flu, the Bird flu, H1N1 and the annual Fall Flu it all makes for great talk radio. Albeit, the hosts do g...
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{jcomments off}The axeman spares no one, not even KGO Talk Radio PD Jack Swanson
From where I sit On The Kowch, I had quite a shock in the past week when I learned that legendary San Fransisco KGO Radio program director Jack Swanson was pushed out by the...
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Barks gets emotional over his pal Doug Gilmour entering Hall of Fame
I got a little weepy on Saturday night watching the Hockey Hall of Fame ceremony prior to the Leafs - Senators game as they talked about Doug Gilmour.
I know No. 93 very well and w...
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My Remembrance Day visit to Occupy Toronto camp site makes me question if this is the proper use of freedom our vets fought and died for
From where I sit On The Kowch, I did something totally out of character on Remembrance Day this year.
At the 11th ho...
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This year on Remembrance Day don't forget our new generation of veterans
Every year at this time I remind people to go to their local Royal Canadian Legion to say thanks to the veterans who fought for this country.
This year I added something different....
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Radio stations should stop the music at 11am on Remembrance Day to honour our veterans
From where I sit On The Kowch, there are too many FM radio music stations in Canada that don't take the time to remember the sacrifices of our veterans at 11 o'clock o...
