September 3, 2008 – 3:54 am
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Posted in TV
Corus Entertainment has completed its acquisition of specialty channel Canadian Learning Television (CLT) from CTVglobemedia for $73 million, and has been operating it effective Sept. 1.
I mention this only because on that same day, reruns of The West Wing disappeared from CLT’s schedule, replaced by Judging Amy. I imagine this came as a surprise since The West Wing is still being advertised on CLT’s website, which also still carries CTV branding.
Does Corus not like the idea of a Democratic president and his staff?
Sadly, because CLT was pretty useless for anything else, this will probably mean the end to our relationship. Time for that channel lineup shuffle I’ve been putting off…
Ad for Terry DiMonte in Monday's Gazette
Corus announced today that Terry DiMonte, the former CHOM morning man who left for Q107 in Calgary because CHOM wasn’t prepared to offer him a long-term contract, will return to Montreal’s airwaves starting Sept. 8 with a noon-hour talk/music show on Q92.
What’s missing from Corus’s press release, and the Presse Canadienne rewriting of it, is that DiMonte isn’t physically returning to Montreal. He’s still hosting his morning show in Calgary. Only now, after his morning shift, he’ll stay in studio and do the Montreal show remotely.
This isn’t the first time that a broadcaster has done “local” programming remotely and tried to fool people (Joe Cannon was famous for it and Global Quebec is introducing it), but the fact that Corus left it out of its press release suggests that their goal is to deliberately mislead Montreal listeners.
Fortunately, I’m relatively confident DiMonte has the moral fortitude not to outright lie to his listeners (saying “here in Montreal” or pretending his weather is the same as ours).
The Gazette’s Bill Brownstein has more.
May 15, 2008 – 1:45 am
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Posted in Radio
Mario Dumont is getting his own eight-minute weekly show on Corus radio stations in Quebec, following Premier Jean Charest’s 10-minute weekly radio address.
Can’t be any worse than what’s already on Quebec talk radio, I guess…
