Re: Vancouver's Hockey "Media" (or "Idiots" as Torts calls them)

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Puck wrote:Rintoul was a hundred times better than this and he probably has some upside. Were his ratings that bad?
I really liked Rintoul when he had the morning show. I believe he requested the move for family reasons.
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Zedlee wrote:I like Dan Russell....he has been ripping Gillis and the Canucks management for quite a while now and to me it's fully deserved. Being a frustrated Canuck fan myself, I take some satisfaction knowing that others feel the same way. The Canucks, from the owner on down, deserve a beat down on a bunch of issues and they get it on AM 650.
I think it's pretty desperate that you feel the need to advertise your show on internet message boards, Dan. :wink:
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Patterson and Price seem to take particular glee in the team struggling. Like Russel they seem very bitter at the team . I don't expect cheerleading but I don't see the need to be so fucking smarmy and arrogant in slagging the Canucks. These idiots are too fucking stupid to actually research and find out why the team is the shits at the moment and instead just want to say i told you so and cut off any callers who argue with them.

Its a sad state of affairs when the morons trot out the same mouth breathers for callers day in and day out.

Troy from White Rock
Hardy from the Wack
Maple Leaf Dave
Johnny from Commercial Drive

Losers and fucktards one and all. I rarely listen to the station but when I do I hear the same 4 losers phoning in.

I would much rather listen to Rome and Patrick or even JT the Brick. Better guests, way better hosts and funnier callers. No idea how anyone could listen to 1040 or Russel for any length of timel with their Vancouver only content.
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You see 100 times the thought and analysis go into articles written by guys like LeBrun and Friedman who cover all 30 teams than the local guys who just bitch and complain about one team.

I can't stand Botchford and have no idea how is career is actually growing. How TSN thinks it's a good idea to give this guy air time is beyond me.
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The media in this city love to fire coaches. They all really struggle hating Gillis cause Gillis is Gallaghers buddy and all the media here look up to Gallagher. So who are they blaming now? The coach. Just like last year when they blamed AV, but here is the problem, they are finally right in blaming the coach this year as this team is far worse than it was under AV.

Both Gillis and Torts should go but there contracts will save their jobs cause our idiot, meddling owner is a cheap c**t

If Tort stays, next years product will be impossible to watch as it will be a team filled with Brad Richardsons as Gillis goes out and gets those guys this off season. Exciting. Torts hockey.
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RoyalDude wrote:Both Gillis and Torts should go but there contracts will save their jobs cause our idiot, meddling owner is a cheap c**t
Haven't these cheap ass owners spent a lot of money on enhancing Rogers Arena, hiring capologists, hiring nutritionists, hiring a dedicated goalie coach, hiring sleep doctors, renovating the dressing room to be the envy of the league and spending more money on road trips on things like hotel rooms so the team can get more sleep not to mention spent to the cap every year they have owned the team?

The Aqua Bros are a lot of things, I'm sure, but I find it hard to see how they have demonstrated any sort of propensity of being penny pinchers when it comes to Canucks Sports and Entertainment.
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Anyone else catch the news that the TEAM 1040 Morning Show featuring Bro Jake with the "Pratt Man" formerly known as "Big Daddy Pratt" announced that the CHAMP segments that used to be featured twice on the show has been put on hiatus!

IMO, that one decision has improved the quality of programming by not 100% but 110%!!!

How good is that? 8-)
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Betamax wrote:Anyone else catch the news that the TEAM 1040 Morning Show featuring Bro Jake with the "Pratt Man" formerly known as "Big Daddy Pratt" announced that the CHAMP segments that used to be featured twice on the show has been put on hiatus!

IMO, that one decision has improved the quality of programming by not 100% but 110%!!!

How good is that? 8-)

The champ segments were money. Solid radio there . Sort of like bitching about cyclists and bike lanes and Mayor Moonbeam. Where is John the Beast Conners when you need him ? Him and Cybul were the toast of the town back in the day.
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Mondi wrote:I haven't listened to the 1040 in the morning since they changed format from sports talk to right wing radio for 15 year boys.
Same here, the morning show really sucks now.

I really dont understand why they did this, very arrogant on a radio station to bring in a person who knows nothing about sports and team him up with someone who thinks he is bigger than anyone else.
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Mondi wrote:I haven't listened to the 1040 in the morning since they changed format from sports talk to right wing radio for 15 year boys.
Same here, the morning show really sucks now.

I really dont understand why they did this, very arrogant on a radio station to bring in a person who knows nothing about sports and team him up with someone who thinks he is bigger than anyone else.
I think they did this because they felt that it was improved their numbers (ratings). The initial few weeks of the Bro Jake Morning Show was a complete and utter disaster as The Bro tried to put his stamp on the show, introducing questionable elements that appealed to his former audience as a Rock DJ to a listenership that was largely there to hear, uh, Sports Talk on a Sports Radio station!

Imagine that.

Questionable segments like the CHAMP and bringing in some of his OLD ... with the emphasis on OLD Hollywood Pals that were talking things like NASCAR (WTF?) didn't exactly scream as a fresh approach to Morning Sports Radio Show. In a way, it was sort of like thinking Dennis Miller would work as a MNF colour analyst. I think a big reason why Bro Jake was brought in is because he's a "people person" and gets along with almost everyone he wants to befriend and that is good at attracting sponsors to their show. I mean, he manage to get a corporation to Sponsor the CHAMP segment when it aired! LOL.

However, I have to credit them, whether it be their Producer Satiar, Bro Jake and/or Big Daddy Pratt that they've steered more towards sports talk and has those entertainment segues are more of a side dish element to their show. It's finally listenable these days and they do have a solid line-up of regular sports related guests and they with bringing in those entertainment side angles, like "WTF? highlight of the Day" which is OK to have, IMO, to include to break up from all-sports talk, since it's actual real comedic moments and not of the contrived variety.
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Art Vandelay wrote:
Betamax wrote:Anyone else catch the news that the TEAM 1040 Morning Show featuring Bro Jake with the "Pratt Man" formerly known as "Big Daddy Pratt" announced that the CHAMP segments that used to be featured twice on the show has been put on hiatus!

IMO, that one decision has improved the quality of programming by not 100% but 110%!!!

How good is that? 8-)

The champ segments were money. Solid radio there . Sort of like bitching about cyclists and bike lanes and Mayor Moonbeam. Where is John the Beast Conners when you need him ? Him and Cybul were the toast of the town back in the day.
I'd like to see the Beast work his radio magic in Calgary. I think Burke would absolutely love to hear that!
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Mondi wrote:I haven't listened to the 1040 in the morning since they changed format from sports talk to right wing radio for 15 year boys.
Not since 1040 'kicks'
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I actually don't mind Pratt now. What I like about Pratt is he doesn't mind showing his Canuck colours , whereas Sekeris and crew try to come off as non biased because that is journalism 101. Fuck that, ya wankers

Sekeris irritates me to no end, same goes with the ultimate ass kisser fence sitter - Barry MacDonald
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Betamax wrote:Anyone else catch the news that the TEAM 1040 Morning Show featuring Bro Jake with the "Pratt Man" formerly known as "Big Daddy Pratt" announced that the CHAMP segments that used to be featured twice on the show has been put on hiatus!

IMO, that one decision has improved the quality of programming by not 100% but 110%!!!

How good is that? 8-)
From Dr. Sport, Greg Douglas' column in today's Vancouver Sun ..... April 18, 2014:

via: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/hock ... story.html
END ZONE: Has Bro Jake finally dropped his ‘Champ’ routine on the Team 1040 morning show? One can only hope so with his absence this past week. The Champ was a big hit when he was new to the radio market 20 years ago. Not so much with his reincarnation.
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Mondi wrote:Even if the show has improved (which I don't think it has), it's still infused with useless banter about non-sports topics and Pratt's hyperbolic takes. I understand he wants to create controversy, but its an act that's worn thin.

A ten minute segment on that US Airways tweet was enough to confirm that the show is garbage. I tune in once in a blue moon and they are on about a pornographic tweet.

Lame.
Well, it seems to me that during those blue moons, you are specifically looking to find fault and warts on their show. Kinda like that stereotypical Negative Nancy, mother-in-law. 8-)
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