#media #radioMajic 100 gets a new logoTime to update your coffee mugs. Majic 100 has a new logo. The old: [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/majic-100-no-cloud.jpg) The new: [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/new-magic-100-logo.jpg) ** ** ** ** ** See also: ** Ottawa Radio Guide If you liked this post, you should ** subscribe to etcetera , ** our free email newsletter. ...
#media #music #schools #signsActual Ottawa headline: "School sign mistakenly honours Wilson Phillips singer"CBC Ottawa reports on an unfortunate signage mistake at Cairine Wilson Secondary School in Orleans: _ A new sign for Cairine Wilson Secondary School in Orleans had to be fixed not long after it was installed because of an embarrassing spelling mistake. ...
#media #newspapersSept. 28, 1988: The original Ottawa Sunday Citizen, and how it beat the Ottawa Sun to the punchYou may have heard the news today: The last Sunday print edition of the Ottawa Citizen will be published on July 15, 2012, and 20 employees will lose their jobs at the newspaper. The very first Sunday edition was published on September 28, 1988: ...
#media #radioSpring 2012 radio ratings: CBC, Hot, CFRA are on topHere’s a chart of the BBM Spring 2012 ratings for anglophone radio listeners in Ottawa, with comparisons from recent ratings period. Each station’s shares are included here, defined as “the estimated total hours tuned to that station expressed as a percentage of total hours tuned to all radio”. ...
#media #people #tv #CTV OttawaPlay-by-play of Leigh Chapple's last broadcastScreen capture from Leigh Chapple’s last show on CTV Ottawa on May 4, 2012. On May 4, Ottawa’s “Queen of late night TV” (as Max Keeping calls her) anchored her final broadcast on CTV Ottawa. Here’s what happened: 11:30pm Last time for voiceover guy to say, “CTV news with Leigh Chapple”. ...
#media #radioOttawa radio station ratings, Fall 2011Here’s a summary of the latest ratings for English radio in Ottawa-Gatineau. ** ** ** Radio station / share. ** _ (Share = the estimated total hours tuned to that station expressed as a percentage of total hours tuned to all radio. ...
#halloween #media #newspapersSlow news day in Stittsville: Report on a bank manager's spooky tieActual item in this week’s edition of the Stittsville News . This is really begging for a photo: [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/spookytie.jpg) “Richard Langford, manager of the Royal Bank in Stittsville, was in the Halloween spirit at the branch last Monday, Oct. ...
#media #radioYet another Ottawa radio station name change: Less EZ Rock, more BOOM** Update: ** Here’s the official press release announcing the switch [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/boom.png) [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ezrock.png) The Ottawa Citizen has a report that Ottawa radio station EZ-Rock will be getting a new name and a new format: "In an announcement to be made Thursday, the station will be renamed BOOM and play music from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. ...
#media #tvThe channel formerly known as CHRO, then The New RO, then A-Channel, then just plain "A", will henceforth be known as CTV 2CTV announced today that they’ll be re-branding all of their “A” networks in Canada. Starting this fall, the channels will be known as “CTV 2”, and they’ll broadcast in HD. My my count that’ll be the fifth name for “Cable 6” in Ottawa in about 15 years, and the sixth in the stations history. ...
#bees #mediaSwarm of bees (actually wasps) downtown leads to endless punning[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ottawa-20110530-00185.jpg) The buzz in Ottawa today was about this piece of unbeelievable news: A swarm of wasps (not bees as originally reported) forced the shutdown of part of Clarence Street in the Bee-ward market earlier today. Police were on the scene first and performed a sting operation / conducted a RAID / called in the SWAT team. ...