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Mar 11, 2021 · March 11, 2021. 1 min.read. Nearly two years after parting ways with Sportsnet 590 The Fan, Canada’s iconic sports radio host Bob McCown is returning to the terrestrial airwaves with a daily show. Beginning March 15, McCown and his former co-host John Shannon will reunite for a sports radio show, joining news talk station Sauga 960 AM every ...
Nov 4, 2023 · Since suffering his latest stroke, Bob McCown is not steady on his feet, and has fallen twice. He doesn’t leave his Mississauga home much these days. When Bob McCown hosted Prime Time Sports on ...
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Bob McCownis returning to radio with The Bob McCown Showto debut on Sauga 960 AM(CKNT-AM) Monday night. McCown has been hosting a daily podcastsince May of last year after parting wayswith Sportsnetin the summer of 2019. He’ll be joined on the new show, which will also be packaged as a podcast, by hockey analyst and former Sportsnetcontributor John...
Numerishas released the latest PPM radio ratings covering the 13-week period from Nov. 30, 2020 to Feb. 28, 2021. Among the highlights are that CHFI-FMToronto has rebounded with women, whileQ107is on top with men, followed by boom 97.3. CBC Radio One grabbed the overall top spot, A12+, with Toronto listeners, while CKNW Newstalk 980was #1 with list...
Joanne Sutton, on March 7, after a battle with cancer. After graduating from the BCIT Broadcast program, Sutton’s first foray into radio was in Whitehorse, before joining Vancouver’s CJJR-FM in 1990. In 1991, she joined Fred and Cathy Latremouille’s morning show on 97 KiSS FM (CKKS-FM) Vancouver as the morning traffic reporter. That ended in 2000 a...
CTV’s Transplant leads the nominations for the 2021 WGC Screenwriting Awards. Other series in contention include Schitt’s Creek, Cardinal, Diggstown, and New Eden. Among the feature film screenplays and their writers receiving nominations are Akilla’s Escape(Charles Officer & Motion), Beans(Tracey Deer & Meredith Vuchnich) and The Willoughbys(Kris ...
HuffPost Canadais being shuttered as part of layoffs announced by BuzzFeedon Tuesday, just weeks after acquiring the HuffPostbrand from Verizon Media. The abrupt announcement comes following HuffPost Canada staff unionizing in late February. The cuts will affect all 23 Canadian employees across HuffPost Canada and HuffPost Quebec, while 47 staff ha...
Cogecois accusing WildBrain of abusing theCRTCprocess in response to a Part 1 filed by the parent company of Family Channel in an attempt to invoke the commission’s standstill rule. WildBrain argues that Cogeco is violating the Wholesale Codewhen, despite the application of the standstill rule during carriage negotiations, it gave unilateral notice...
Google AIhas unveiled Lyra, a new low-bitrate audio codec for speech compression. With the ongoing challenge of developing codecs that increase quality, using less data while minimizing latency, Lyra aims to make voice communication possible even on the slowest networks by leveraging advances in machine learning (ML). Using models trained on thousa...
Apr 12, 2021 · Read about the return of iconic sports broadcaster Bob McCown via Mississauga's AM 960: https://issuu.com/modernmississauga/docs/mm29_spring_2021_final/71
Mar 8, 2021 · McCown said his 2019 exit from Sportsnet was led by a financial decision from the company, and although there may have been recent interest in a return, an offer never materialized. The founder of sports radio in Canada, McCown was known throughout his career for tenaciously challenging guests and callers, although his fiery style toned down near the end.
Jul 13, 2023 · McCown is best known for hosting the popular sports talk radio show Prime Time Sports on Sportsnet 590 The Fan (formerly The FAN 590) in Toronto. He hosted the show from its inception in 1989 ...
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Dec 2, 2020 · Dec 2, 2020. 237. Almost 18 months have passed since Bob McCown left his familiar chair in the studio at Sportsnet 590 The Fan, where he spent a generation cultivating an audience as host of the ...
