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#21 AllseeingEye

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Posted 26 April 2017 - 06:54 PM

I assume people wanted to ditch their antennas because Victoria has poor line-of-sight and poor airwave reception?


I remember that! It would just pan back and forth all day. Channel 10 I assume.

Yup, it kicked in once they shut down broadcasting for the day from M-F, and on weekends when there no programs were scheduled. Back and forth, back and forth rinse, repeat......of course no matter what dial or metric you wanted, usually the temperature if it was summer, whenever you tuned in "naturally" the mirror / image of that dial had just disappeared off screen so you had to sit there for 45 seconds to a minute until the mirror finally rotated and displayed that dial again....

 

It was quite the technological leap when they finally retired the old dears and replaced them with an early-days computer-generated graphic (in color!) - the "big leap" being you could graphically see all on one screen time/temps/ wind direction/barometric pressure - ***with the added bonus!!!*** - that it also included the Environment Canada weather forecast, which of course was just as inaccurate then as today :)



#22 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 04:11 PM

Global News journalists cut in layoffs at Corus

 

https://dailyhive.co...t-layoffs-corus



#23 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 04:57 PM

Global News journalists cut in layoffs at Corus

 

https://dailyhive.co...t-layoffs-corus

 

 

 

Rachel Gilmore is one that has been fired.   Which some people will enjoy.

 

Thanks, truckers.


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 March 2023 - 05:03 PM.


#24 todd

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 05:21 PM

It’s OK to be a nerd or something but it’s not OK to be a dork



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#25 AllseeingEye

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 06:36 PM

Ever since Canwest Global went belly up and was subsumed by Corus in 2016 the latter has been systematically hacking and whacking away at Global News; my Vancouver radio pals were never happy with their Corus master when it became the dominant player in the BC market radio biz, and as long as Global TV advertising revenues continue to decline - the company's news and radio businesses are 100 per cent dependent on ad revenue - these periodic and continuous layoffs inevitably will as well.



#26 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 06:45 PM

Rachel Gilmore is one that has been fired. Which some people will enjoy.

Thanks, truckers.


Gilmore has a long track record of being dishonest with the Canadian people. Gilmore spread lies about James Topp, a matter for which she is being sued for. She spread misinformation on Elon Musk back in October.

The Global News journalist was responsible for doxxing an Indigenous woman and directing harassment towards her, as reported by the National Telegraph.



https://www.toronto9...ht-lying-again/




Some might call her the Taylor Lorenz of Canadian media.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 March 2023 - 06:46 PM.


#27 Nparker

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 06:50 PM

I haven't consumed any mainstream news media in 3 years. I don't miss it at all.



#28 todd

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 06:52 PM

Gilmore has a long track record of being

Dork in disguise.


Global is better than, CTV or CBC

Edited by todd, 02 March 2023 - 06:54 PM.


 



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