I’ll be on CBC Radio’s The Signal with host Adam Walsh this Friday for the kick-up-your-feetest hour of radio. Well, that’s the intention. It’s time for another trivia show, and I’m … what? thrilled? ecstatic?… Read More
“As we all understand, you can take a man’s show, you can’t take a man’s voice.” — David Letterman I expect to see a lot of Stephen Colbert in the headlines this week, as the… Read More
“Canada is a collection of 10 provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.” — Dave Broadfoot As a good Canadian kid in the Seventies, I grew up on Dave Broadfoot (not to mention Sgt…. Read More
About a dozen years ago, I went out one evening to buy a simple counter-top radio — and I wound up picking up a lesson in changing consumer tastes. The anecdote has been on my… Read More
When I read last week that the executive of the students’ union at Memorial University wants to eliminate the campus radio station, I was taken straight back to the 1980s, when youthful politicians around Canada… Read More
One of the biggest stories in the U.K. this weekend is the death of Jenni Murray, who hosted the program Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 for more than three decades. Murray, 75, died March… Read More
“People will be sympathetic to you if you are thinking out loud. If you seem to be grasping your way, trying to get a handle on what you’re learning and where you want to go… Read More
If I were to play you two slightly different versions of a radio news report, or perhaps one for television, I wonder if you could tell the difference. I bet you could. The content, structure… Read More
Adam Walsh and I scratched another one for the books today, with the monthly trivia show for CBC Radio’s The Signal. You can listen to the whole thing right here. I thought it might be… Read More
This is Adam Walsh. He hosts (and produces) The Signal on CBC Radio in Newfoundland and Labrador, and I’m going to be his guest on Friday for a trivia show. My job: to make him… Read More
Less than two weeks ago, Paddy Daly announced he was done as host from VOCM’s Open Line, as much of a political institution in Newfoundland and Labrador as the House of Assembly itself. I mentioned… Read More