Thanks to everyone for the kind words about the opportunity to bring the vibe and content of alternative radio to CJOB this week.
And welcome to CJOB listeners who are finding this blog for the first time!
Feel free to go back in the archives and see the kinds of stories about topics like Porkgate, The Friends of Upper Fort Garry, and the difficult relationship between the Winnipeg Free Press and its increasingly cynical readers, that you have not heard anywhere else.
Here's how a Free Press contributor describes how we have revolutionized local open-line radio:
... meticulously ripping apart the work of the big, bad, biased and arrogant mainstream media while promoting the opinions of the city's relatively unknown (to the public, anyway) bloggers...
TGCTS Kick-FM schedule:
Monday: Unfortunately, Coun. Jenny Gerbasi is under the weather and has postponed her appearance on the show today to discuss the proposed Water Utility. We are trying to reschedule her for next week. We will cover the beating of a peace officer in a strip-club altercation, and the beating the Free Press took at the hands of the Sun in covering the incident; more about 311, parking rates and the bike lobby; and as usual, sports with the King of Corydon Avenue, Frank the Italian Barber.
Tuesday: Guitar in hand, Derek Miller live in studio at 4.30 PM, previewing his show at Ozzie's (160 Osborne) that night and his outdoor performance as the headliner for the Osborne Street Festival Canada Day celebrations at 4.45 PM. On the current affairs side, we'll also do a Half-year in Review of the stories we covered that made news - inside the January meth-user suicide in front of cops, the Bill Blaikie exclusive interview, the Gail Glesby case, Justice Minister Chomiak apologizing to Mayor Katz, etc.
Wednesday: No broadcast --- HAPPY CANADA DAY
Thursday: Replay of June 1st interview with Mayor Sam Katz
Friday: Replay of June 11th show with Tom Brodbeck of the Sun and PC leader Hugh McFadyen, all about the 1999 NDP election finance scam and Elections Manitoba secret deal not to prosecute.
CJOB Nighthawk schedule:
Monday: At 9 PM, an in-studio interview with Mayor Sam Katz with lots of listener questions about his relationship with paramedics, ongoing problems with derelict buildings and police crime priorities.
* Also, we'll give away two passes to see blues master Derek Miller perform at the Osborne Village Inn on Tuesday night.
* At 10.30 PM, former Winnipegger turned Los Angeles business whiz and film producer Dan Denton of Frozen Pond Productions.
* After 11 PM, the shocking autopsy findings of what was left of Michael Jackson. Plus, Young Josh and your calls at 780-6868.
Tuesday: Brian Smiley of Manitoba Public Insurance will talk summer safety tips, explain the buckpassing by 311 and the Parking Authority to MPI over phantom tickets being issued to innocent motorists, and maybe even make a few CFL predictions.
* As the MSM continues to lose ground to new sources of information, a guide to who's who in the local blogosphere and the stories they have broken.
*And after 11 PM, Today In History with Professor Levinski !
Wednesday: In honour of Canada Day, a special interview with Canada's Greatest Athlete, former NWA and AWA Heavyweight Wrestling champion, Big Thunder Gene Kiniski! Call and tell us, how did you celebrate Canada Day?
Thursday: No Nighthawk - GO BOMBERS GO, listen to CJOB for all the action live from Edmonton with the voice of the Blue, Bob Irving.
Friday: We'll catch up on the news that piled up in the previous 48 hours, and take a compare and contrast look at the difference between how Canada and the USA celebrate the National birthdays.
* Plus another installment of Today in History with Professor Levinski.
Your feedback always welcome at talk@kick.fm.
