567...I Love The CFL

I really do.

And how about them Alouettes, eh?

I really love the fact that, in Ottawa, the biggest market in Canada without a CFL team, The Team 1200 runs most, if not all, of the games on the radio.

The only thing that is frustrating about the broadcasts is the fact that they are simulcasts of TSN's TV coverage of the games. TSN's TV show is wicked and very visual. Radio, not so visual.

The big killer is the score, they rarely say the score and that is tres frustrating. Telestrating on the radio is not so good either.

All in all though, big props, big thank you very much to both The Team 1200 and TSN for bringing the CFL to our deprived little town.

Go Als.

WFDS

161...Many Voices Make Us Stronger/ZMZ

Here is what I posted on ZeroMeansZero a few minutes ago.

World Famous Dan Shields said...
RE: CFRA and surrendering their lic.Um, doncha think multiple voices are better than no voice? Frankly, agree or not, CFRA is at least out there and, as Lowell has said in the past, it is suprising that some of the underperforming stations, ratings are out today, look to the bottom of the list, don't go talk, hot talk, etc.Also, 540, 630,970, 1440 and 1150 are still signals assigned to this market. If CFRA and CFGO/The Team can make money on AM, one would think that a talker on a flamethrowing signal like the one 540 has would make a few shekels.ZMZ Radio?WFDS
May 28, 2009 12:37 PM

96...Thursday, CKCU, Radio Carleton

8 am til 9 30 am, 944 Rogers, 93.1 FM on car and clock radios in Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec and New York's North Country, http://www.ckcufm.com/ for the rest of the world, I will be talking to Jill Nelson about Johnny Wadd, John C. Holmes, the Elvis of porno.

In addition, Doug Hempstead updates the Tulip Festival for y'all y'all and Daniel Stringer on the UN Peace thingy at St. Paul University Thursday day.

Plus, in studio, Lindsay call me Liz Ferguson, a singer I am told, for the full 90 minutes.

Hey, c'mon over, I am funnier than CFRA, sportier than The Team 1200 and smarter than CBC One and Two.

WFDS

86...The Team1200

Is a local Ottawa all sports station. For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian radio and TV, direct competition is an anathema to the governing body of broadcasting in the Great White North. The Canadian Radio and Television Commission is bureaucracy and superciliousness taken to the next level. Therefore, unlike the land down under the 49th, there will never be two of anything trying to serve the same market and demographic in this country on the radio dial if the CRTC can help it.

In Ottawa that means we have one country station, one all news station, one sports station etc. Our sports station is The Team 1200 and it is sooooooo random.

Please bear in mind this is really a one sport town and that sport is hockey, National Hockey League hockey. Everything else pales in comparison.

Here is what is cool about The Team 1200. Saturday afternoon they had the Washington/Pittsburgh NHL playoff game on and allowed the full feed, with Pittsburgh local adverts and id's and everything. It felt so local on two levels, an Ottawa level and a Western Pa. level.

Here is what is random.

Sunday when the Detroit Red Wings were playing Anaheim Ducks The Team 1200 ran...no hockey, no local feed from Detroit or Anaheim, no cut ins just a talk show from either ESPN or FoxSports where they were talking about college and NFL football. One, and I am one, would think at the very least you could find some Eastern Ontario or Western Quebec motormouth who would talk about hockey for like 12 dollars an hour but noooooooooo they just run a feed from the States talking about stuff that, well, I am interested in but most in Ottawa are not.

Not hating, just stating and wondering, that's all.

WFDS