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nobody imp0rtant said:
This is all I can find.

MAJOR | Big changes reportedly coming to Hockey Night in Canada next season

According to Howard Berger, major changes are reportedly coming to Hockey Night in Canada next season.
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Maybe they want to appeal to a new demographic, like when they brought in Strombo. But there is the cost element. Newbs work cheaper than vets.
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Or just generate the whole thing with AI. Can't be any less insightful than some of the current panel.
 
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ps241 said:
Traditional media has been under siege for a while and that is not ending. What did you notice changed the most during your time in broadcast media?
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Well, even before the big shift and consolidation being a broadcast personality was very volatile.

Then when new media started to shrink margins that's when corporatism took hold. Centralizing departments, increasing roles (dj also being Music Director etc.) Syndication and sterilizing of the product happened in earnest.

I went from being a midday jock at Hot 103, with locally directed content and autonomy to DJ, Ryan Seacrest Producer, voictracking KX96 in Brandon, QX104 weekend announcer and Assistant Music Director.

Standard was a family company, bought by Astral, a QC corporation, then bought by Bell Megacorp. They rebranded us to Virgin and all music and programming decisions came from Toronto, and were identical to Virgin Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, etc etc

I got fired and it was time to go.
 
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Jet said:
Well, even before the big shift and consolidation being a broadcast personality was very volatile.

Then when new media started to shrink margins that's when corporatism took hold. Centralizing departments, increasing roles (dj also being Music Director etc.) Syndication and sterilizing of the product happened in earnest.

I went from being a midday jock at Hot 103, with locally directed content and autonomy to DJ, Ryan Seacrest Producer, voictracking KX96 in Brandon, QX104 weekend announcer and Assistant Music Director.

Standard was a family company, bought by Astral, a QC corporation, then bought by Bell Megacorp. They rebranded us to Virgin and all music and programming decisions came from Toronto, and were identical to Virgin Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, etc etc

I got fired and it was time to go.
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Sorry to hear, but then you ended up in Florida so not sorry! ;)
 
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ps241 said:
Traditional media has been under siege for a while and that is not ending. What did you notice changed the most during your time in broadcast media?
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The entire system is beyond effed. Since I stopped working as a journalist after my science journalism studies, I never looked back on my escape into PR and Marketing and I have no doubt that I will never work in journalistic media formats. I mean actually I do but only just for fun - I started live commentating a first league women hockey team in Mannheim on their web stream. As soon as no money and expectations are involved, everything is easy and works fine.

GO MAD DOGS!!
 
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Jet said:
Well, even before the big shift and consolidation being a broadcast personality was very volatile.

Then when new media started to shrink margins that's when corporatism took hold. Centralizing departments, increasing roles (dj also being Music Director etc.) Syndication and sterilizing of the product happened in earnest.

I went from being a midday jock at Hot 103, with locally directed content and autonomy to DJ, Ryan Seacrest Producer, voictracking KX96 in Brandon, QX104 weekend announcer and Assistant Music Director.

Standard was a family company, bought by Astral, a QC corporation, then bought by Bell Megacorp. They rebranded us to Virgin and all music and programming decisions came from Toronto, and were identical to Virgin Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, etc etc

I got fired and it was time to go.
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Everything you said makes complete sense in the backdrop of margins shrinking. A series of measures to strip out cost to maintain profitability, then eventually selling, until lord help you you get rolled up into a major soulless entity like Bell. I guess it’s all part of the business cycle of creative destruction but where it gets a tad concerning to me is when proper sourced news reporting in traditional media gets value engineered which is a very natual cut back.
 
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Jet said:
Loooool not sure if that's a dis on me?
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Having never met you, I'm not in a position to judge.

Being fully informed about the current political state of things in America, I am more than qualified to judge Florida.

And, in a completely unrelated rant, I'm trapped in my house in Scottsdale where it's currently 42 and is forecast to reach 47 this afternoon.
 
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Stumbledore said:
Having never met you, I'm not in a position to judge.

Being fully informed about the current political state of things in America, I am more than qualified to judge Florida.

And, in a completely unrelated rant, I'm trapped in my house in Scottsdale where it's currently 42 and is forecast to reach 47 this afternoon.
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Only 34 in Kelowna!
 
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