Score One for the Reporter
Oh I love this! Every broadcaster has been interrupted by someone while they’re trying to record or they’re live on the air. Usually the moment just gets wrecked. Â …
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Brandt’s Randt – Crazy Canadians, What’s Two More?
OK so this is a kind of narrowly-focused issue that grabbed my attention. Actor Randy Quaid and his wife want to stay in Canada but Canada has decided they can’t. …
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Smart Students
On Friday The Big Show was invited to speak to a group of radio and broadcast journalism students at Fanshawe College.  Derek “Rock” Botten, Blair and I offered our takes on the business of broadcasting and hoped to impart a bit of our best advice  to them. …
Brandt’s Randt – My New Addiction
I used to be able to take-it-or-leave-it when it came to games on my iPhone but now one has a hold on me.  And this monkey on my back is the subject of this week’s Brandt’s Randt. …
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Rocking the Airwaves
A Comox, BC rock-radio host was fired last week in what appears to me to be a complete over-reaction to something he did on the air. Â …
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Powder Room Pet Peeves
This week we talked on air about things that bug us when we share a bathroom with our significant other. Â …
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Canada’s London Randt
This was my on-air take on the whole Canada’s London campaign after a city committee approved the rebranding campaign. It still needs full council approval but Canada’s London is likely going to be spread all over the city. Ugh. Â Â …
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Fontana Fascination
No one expected much to happen at the first court date in Joe Fontana’s fraud and breach of trust case and it didn’t. Â But the mini-shit-storm that erupted on Twitter was a lot of fun to watch and it had nothing to do with the case itself! Â …
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Thanks for Nothing, London
To say I was gobsmacked by a proposal from City of London staff would be an understatement. …
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Radio Tales Under Assembly
A little while ago I posted a plea for radio stories and I got some very good ones! I’m starting to work on an ebook collection of my own experiences in this wacky world of broadcasting and including some of those I’ve been sent.  They range from in-studio shenanigans to off-air tomfoolery to the ever-popular dealings with over-bearing or delusional listeners. I’ll share one of the rarer ones with you today, written and experienced by Mr. Derek Botten. …
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2012: The Year in Review
By far, the best thing we did this year was to adopt Spice.  After so much hemming and hawing and hesitation we acted at the right time and got the right cat. We got our cat and he’s a little love of our lives. …
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My Latest Randt – Christmas Music!
Join me if you will as we listen to this week’s Brandt’s Randt from 98.1 Free FM. Â …
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Tales Out of School
Hundreds of broadcasters have said they’ll write books about behind-the-scenes of radio. Very few have followed through.  I think it’s time. …
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Who We Are, What We Do, How to Speak to Us
Today I’m presenting a media training session at Mission Services here in London. Â They’ve asked me to come and talk to them about how to talk to the media. Â We are a necessary evil to organizations and it helps everyone on both sides if we know what we’re dealing with. Â …
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Brandt’s Randts
We’ve started a new weekly (or so) feature on The Big Show called Brandt’s Randt. Â Basically I spout off a bit about something that’s bothering me. Â It’s about entertainment, pure and simple. It’s meant for listeners to identify with and sometimes take issue with – I’ve had all sorts of reactions but as long as people react, it’s worth doing! Occasionally I will share the text of a Randt – like today’s, about people who park in no-parking zones. Â And there’s a bit of a kicker at the end! …
Pranks and Pranksters
There has been plenty of discussion among broadcasters since a nurse in England killed herself on Friday. If you missed the story, she was the nurse who accepted a call from a prankster radio host in Australia and, believing the caller was the Queen, put her through to another nurse who gave the caller details about Kate’s condition as Prince William’s wife was being treated for a severe form of morning sickness. …
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A Reader Writes About Radio
Hi Lisa, I was wondering if you could answer a question for me.  …
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The Naked Truth – Audio Now Available!
An audio version of my ebook The Naked Truth is now available. Â I hadn’t planned on recording one but several people asked me to and it was kind of fun! …
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