I don’t know how many other people caught this yesterday but it jumped out at me from the computer screen. Â The London couple that won $17-million in Saturday’s Lotto 6/49 came forward. Â He is 73 and she is 60 and CTV, the Free Press and others called them “elderly.” …
I often write about errors in news writing and believe me, I could post a new story about them every day but I try to pace myself. …
It’s been several years now since I started writing a monthly column for Myaircheck.com. Â …
On Friday The Big Show was invited to speak to a group of radio and broadcast journalism students at Fanshawe College.  Derek “Rock” Botten, Blair and I offered our takes on the business of broadcasting and hoped to impart a bit of our best advice  to them. …
This happens far too often.  Journalists make assumptions and they ought not do it. …
A Comox, BC rock-radio host was fired last week in what appears to me to be a complete over-reaction to something he did on the air. Â …
To say I was gobsmacked by a proposal from City of London staff would be an understatement. …
A little while ago I posted a plea for radio stories and I got some very good ones! I’m starting to work on an ebook collection of my own experiences in this wacky world of broadcasting and including some of those I’ve been sent.  They range from in-studio shenanigans to off-air tomfoolery to the ever-popular dealings with over-bearing or delusional listeners. I’ll share one of the rarer ones with you today, written and experienced by Mr. Derek Botten. …
Join me if you will as we listen to this week’s Brandt’s Randt from 98.1 Free FM. Â …
Hundreds of broadcasters have said they’ll write books about behind-the-scenes of radio. Very few have followed through.  I think it’s time. …
There has been plenty of discussion among broadcasters since a nurse in England killed herself on Friday. If you missed the story, she was the nurse who accepted a call from a prankster radio host in Australia and, believing the caller was the Queen, put her through to another nurse who gave the caller details about Kate’s condition as Prince William’s wife was being treated for a severe form of morning sickness. …
Hi Lisa, I was wondering if you could answer a question for me.  …
You’d be surprised how often bad behavior is tolerated in broadcasting. Â …
Nay-sayers and outsiders have been sounding the death knell on radio for decades. Â I remember in the 80’s people were saying it would be dead by the turn of the century. Â I have one response: Ha! Â Â …
Last Thursday and Friday our regular Free-FM morning show was not on the air in preparation for the launch of our new show today.
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It’s the first rule of improv and the key to performing with another person. Â Whatever they do, wherever they go, say “yes, and” not “no, but”. Â …
A couple of drunken idiots broke into the radio station this week. Â …
This is a blog posting I published at www.blackburnnews.com and www.981freefm.ca this week under my banner of Morning News Anchor. Â It just offers a little peek into something that can go on behind the scenes. Â …