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** 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. ...

CTV 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. ...

[ ](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. ...

Here’s a letter to the editor from today’s Citizen (thanks to Matthew Pearson for pointing it out). Rundown, unfriendly and mean, I can take. But _ tawdry _ ? That really crosses the line. [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ottawa-20110530-00184.jpg) ** See also: ** Ottawa Newspapers Guide

_ Starting today, every Monday I’m going to re-post an older article from the OttawaStart blog. This one appeared way back in January 2006 : _ OttawaStart reader Rev. A. McKee asked: "Where does [ Max Keeping ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Keeping) get his ties? ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ottawasun.jpg) ‘Tis the week for new newspaper websites. On Sunday I blogged about the new Centretown Buzz website . And on Tuesday, the Ottawa Sun launched a new web home . It’s bold, it’s brash, and it’s very visual. ...

** Update - April 10: ** Stuntman Stu tells all about why he made the move to Majic If you’re a BOB FM or Majic 100 listener, you’ll hear some new voices tomorrow morning on the morning shows: ...

The Ryerson Review of Journalism has a good article about how blogs, twitter, social media, and BlackBerrys are affecting political coverage in Ottawa. And it includes this great line: In an Ottawa where BlackBerrys are unholstered and placed on tables like guns in a spaghetti western, the ubiquity of smartphones has changed how the news is produced, consumed and digested. ...

Here’s another one for all of the typography geeks who read this blog. Last week in the Ottawa Citizen, a typo in the headline about the University of Ottawa inadvertently called the school “U of Zero” insted of “U of O”. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/u-of-zero.jpg) To me, that looks like “U of Zero” rather than “U of O”. What do you think? Could be an honest typo, of course – the 0 and O are close together on the keyboard. (From an article on the front page of today’s Ottawa Citizen. ...