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Kate 14:35 on 2021-05-04 Permalink Reply  

• dhomas 18:37 on 2021-05-04 Permalink

  Maybe I’ll finally be able to listen to CHOM in the morning again.

• Ephraim 20:01 on 2021-05-04 Permalink

  Radio still exists? Between podcasts and streaming music, I haven’t heard radio in years. Are they still bitching on CJAD every day?

• Kate 21:49 on 2021-05-04 Permalink

  Radio still exists. I usually hit up CBC radio (online) a couple of times a day to get the news headlines.

  I know they were still bitching on CJAD up till a couple of years ago because I had a coworker – an older fellow – who occasionally liked listening to that. I presume they still are.

• Uatu 22:36 on 2021-05-04 Permalink

  like Ephraim said the podcasts and streaming are shrinking radio’s audience and Terry sees the writing on the wall and knows it’s time to quit. He’ll probably come out with his own podcast later where he can set his own hours and choose his guests without Bell and the ratings book always on his case

• dhomas 04:25 on 2021-05-05 Permalink

  I mostly do streaming, too, but radio is still convenient in a car, just because it’s easy. I listen to my stuff after I drop off the kids at school, but I listen to FM radio while with the kids. It’s usually a pretty safe option for the little ones, until you get the bitching. Like this:
  https://mtlcityweblog.com/2021/04/21/no-osheaga-this-year/#comment-160091

• Kate 09:01 on 2021-05-05 Permalink

  dhomas, so is DiMonte one of the sources for the perennially sour anglo response to things here?

  I had been thinking maybe Josh Freed was a reason for it, but figured he couldn’t be the only dispenser of that chronic tendency to snipe fruitlessly at everything.

• dhomas 15:06 on 2021-05-05 Permalink

  I mean, he wasn’t all bad, I guess. He was genuinely upbeat about certain things and had his favourite topics in terms of “community” like talking about favourite restaurants or local businesses. But he was very pro-car, as I assume you must be when you work in radio since probably 85% of your audience is listening in their vehicle.
  But he had gotten worse in recent years. I don’t want to falsely accuse the guy or anything, but it seemed to get worse when Valerie Plante was elected. He’d complain about the usual Montreal stuff, but with some added barbs towards the current administration. Like complaining about snow removal on bike paths (gasp!) before sidewalks. Or the above “summer being canceled” thing. That said, there are definitely people worse than he is. He just has a certain way of putting things that turns me off. He does this thing when he is critical of something where he “sucks his teeth”, I think is the best way of putting it. I hated hearing it.

• CE 15:39 on 2021-05-05 Permalink

  @Kate, Wasn’t it Terry DiMonte who told you off for not liking some student’s video about Montreal?

• Kate 18:21 on 2021-05-05 Permalink

  CE, wow. I’d forgotten that. Here’s where we discussed it on the blog. And yes, here’s the Twitter thread.