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The devolution of radio
Aaron Rand didn’t ride into the sunset last week as much as he was hogtied to a horse and told to get out of Dodge. That’s not meant as a slight against Rand, who was a media institution in...
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Radio legends Terry DiMonte and Tasso both back on Montreal radio
I kind of feel sorry for Calgary radio fans who embraced Montreal radio legend Terry DiMonte on Q107. They made DiMonte’s Q107 morning show Number One in the ratings just before he returned home to...
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A look at Alex Trebek’s Canadian roots as the Jeopardy host recovers from a...
Harry Friedman, Executive Producer, Sony Pictures Television, (L) and host Alex Trebek pose during ribbon cutting at Sony Pictures for the 28th season premiere of the television show Jeopardy,...
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Who cares if TSN Radio 690 switches from English to French?
Sure, the all-sports station’s devoted listeners would miss its programming, if the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approves Bell Media’s proposal to make the switch. But...
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Congratulations, xenophobe
With much fanfare, Quebec’s public television network, Télé-Québec, announced on Thursday that Benoît Dutrizac is returning as co-host of its weekly public-affairs show Les francs-tireurs starting next...
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Stairway to Heaven: Give Me Zep’s Version, Please!
I think it was all very nice and quaint in an elevator music sort of way for Heart to perform an abridged version of Stairway to Heaven at the Kennedy Centre Honors in December, in front of the members...
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Concert Review: Maroon 5 at Bell Centre; February 20, 2013
Check out Allen’s full gallery here. For their latest visit to Montreal, Los Angeles power poppers Maroon 5 rewarded shrieking fans with a truly impressive visual spectacle. The music, on the other...
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Something sinister behind campaign to save TSN 690
It’s pretty impressive that the people behind the campaign to save TSN 690 was able to amass 15,000 signatures to a petition and endless letters to the CRTC, as Stu Cowan wrote in his blog. And while I...
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Concert review: Pitbull and Ke$ha at Bell Centre, June 4, 2013
Check out Peter’s full gallery here. Tuesday night’s Pitbull/Ke$ha double-bill at Bell Centre was a co-headlined event in name only. While Ke$ha’s ribald humour fell flat in the defacto opener slot,...
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The Beat tops Virgin Radio again
The amazing thing about radio ratings is how radio executives can spin the numbers any which way they want. In the spring ratings, released on Thursday, The Beat 92.5 landed just ahead of Virgin Radio...
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Fantasia Film Festival: Relive the panic of yesteryear with War of the...
U.S. actor director Orson Welles in a dramatic mood. Welles was once known as a “Boy Wonder.” On October 30, 1938 (one day before Halloween, excuse me!) a radio drama about an invasion by tentacled...
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Run! The Martians are coming! Relive the fear of years gone by tonight with...
Back in August, during the 2013 Fantasia Film Festival, tickets for War of the Worlds: Welles & Wells, a presentation about the (in)famous 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, sold out 10...
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PBS examines the night Orson Welles sowed panic in radioland with War of the...
On October 30, 1938, a radio dramatization of the H.G. Wells novel War of the Worlds convinced some Americans (exactly how many is a matter of debate) that Martian invaders had landed in New Jersey and...
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Gazette Midday: Woman dies after scarf caught in metro escalator; Ford backs...
Hello and welcome to montrealgazette.com and welcome to Midday. Here’s the rundown on some of the stories we’re following for you today. A woman in her 30s died Thursday morning in the Fabre métro...
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Is freedom of speech just an illusion? Documentary film Shadows of Liberty...
“If it didn’t appear in the New York Times. . .it never happened.” . Thursday night McGill University’s branch of Cinema Politica will present Shadows of Liberty, a documentary about U.S. media made...
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Montreal filmmaker Tony Asimakopoulos will talk about his Park Extension film...
7:50 am Tony Asimakopoulos is talking now! Director Tony Asimakopoulos will soon start shooting A Walk in Park Ex, a documentary about Montreal’s Park Extension neighbourhood. At some point in between...
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Habs aren’t always treated fairly, Pacioretty says
MONTREAL — Max Pacioretty says he doesn’t read newspapers and doesn’t listen to sports talk radio, but he said he is aware there are people who write or say things critical about the Canadiens and he...
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Video: Astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi on Fast Radio Bursts
Astrophysicist and McGill professor Victoria Kaspi Speaks on the discovery of Fast Radio Bust at her McGill office on on Monday July 14, 2014. Her team as replicated the findings of an Australian...
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Interstellar radio burst creates a scientific buzz
MONTREAL — In a galaxy far, far away … an extraordinarily bright radio burst that was detected by McGill University researchers has generated much excitement in the scientific community and has...
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Girlfriend hunt on Montreal’s streets
Radio personality Sam “Stuntman” Lupovich has put up posters in downtown Montreal, to find himself a girlfriend.
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