Popularly known as Humble and Fred, ex-radio personalities Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson have announced a new partnership with Rogers that will see their podcast being promoted on 19 of the company’s radio stations’ websites across the country, and on the stations themselves. It’s the first time Rogers has gotten involved in a purely online [...]

When management at Telemedia decided to switch CJCL’s phone-in sports commentary show to a magazine format in the fall of 1989, they looked to Canada’s public broadcaster for inspiration. Prime Time Sports was to be the athletic equivalent of As it Happens, a promise that Star sports media columnist Ken McKee felt placed “a large [...]

Tucked at the very end of a North York cul-de-sac lined with long grey office buildings, there is a patch of grass covered in geese. In the summer, Fitzroy Gordon says, those geese will be replaced by band stands, food, and people. He’s describing just one of the many block parties and music festivals he [...]

When CKLN 88.1 FM, Ryerson University’s campus-community radio station, lost its frequency on April 15 after a protracted dispute with the CRTC, it seemed possible that the broadcaster’s 28-year run had come to an end. Now, rather than fold, the station is transitioning to a new phase in its history—but not before shedding a little [...]

For today's ad we decided on a brief break from depressing recent headlines, and instead present you with a serene scene from the east end courtesy of CKFM radio’s long-running series of neighbourhood snapshots. Though the boardwalk will be more crowded today thanks to the heat and the lack of photographers shooing everyone else away, we suspect a few minutes at Balmy Beach or any park along the waterfront will act as a restorative, or at least allow time for you to collect your thoughts, contemplating the world from a bench.

Twenty-nine hours. That’s how long Jeffrey Caulfield and Willy Klaudusz waited in line to be among the first people to enter the CN Tower when it opened its doors to the general public on June 26, 1976. As many as 12,000 people followed them that day, the first of the daily hordes that still flow into the landmark 35 years later.

Newsstand at the northeast corner of King and Bay, November 9, 1931. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 372, Subseries 58, Item 1289. How will you discover the latest election results on Monday night? Watch them on television? Head to the neighbourhood bar? Follow Torontoist’s coverage? Take the matter into your own hands and [...]

Photo by Bradley J. Reinhardt from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. “When I was a kid and I started doing this, I thought I invented hip hop. And then when I began to leave my little world, where it was all happening in my bedroom in Mount Uniake, and I discovered that there were some other [...]

CKLN’s website, as of this evening. Ryerson-based (but not Ryerson-run) campus-community radio station CKLN, 88.1 FM, has been granted a stay on the CRTC’s recent decision to revoke its broadcasting license, meaning the station will remain on the air until a federal judge can determine whether or not CKLN has grounds to appeal the CRTC’s [...]

Source: Maclean’s, April 3, 1978. As a winter storm approaches the city, don’t succumb to pessimists who promote visions of snowmageddon. Instead, sit back, relax, focus on the serene scene above (brought to you by the easy listening sounds of a forerunner of today’s Virgin Radio), and repeat the following: Spring is less than two [...]

A screen capture of CKLN’s website as of 3 p.m. today. Today the CRTC revoked the broadcasting license of radio station CKLN—an independent community-run radio station located in Ryerson University’s campus (and largely funded by its student union) but not officially affiliated with that institution—citing the station’s failure to comply with federal broadcasting regulations for [...]

Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Earl Warren and Etta Sawyer about to carve poultry on the front cover of Etta Sawyer at the House of Warren: Kitchen Capers at CFRB (Toronto: Personal Library, 1979). When browsing [...]