more changes at QR

[rtirdnewsguy]

Its taken long enough but QR is finally dumping the pomposity not so cleverly disguised as Charles Adler
This is on the station website this morning

Dave Taylor to return to the News Talk 770 airwaves

Calgary, AB, Canada / News Talk 770 (CHQR)
Joe McFarland
August 06, 2013 08:05 am

A familiar voice on News Talk 770 is returning. Dave Taylor will returns to the radio August 19th as the new afternoon host from 12:30 to 4 on weekday afternoons. Taylor’s return to radio follows an 8-year stint as Calgary MLA. His show will include an hour of co-hosting from 3 to 4 with current drive home host Angela Kokott. Current host Charles Adler will be heard on weekends on News Talk 770. Taylor’s “re-debut” comes the same day the new “Kingkade and Kelly Show” also hits the airwaves for the first time.

[isthisthingon]

IMO - a very good move for QR. Taylor is sharp, knows radio and politics from the inside. The fact that Dave Rutherford hates him adds extra credibility. The usual gang of idiots will likely be expressing their righteous indignation in Grade 3 English in the Calgary Sun for the next few weeks. (More specifically: the usewull gang of idots will espressing they're rightwing indignaty . . . )

http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/08/06/former-host-mla-dave-taylor-to-be-back-behind-the-microphone-on-news-talk-770

[groundwave]

Interesting how, in spite of the newstalk770.com web page for this announcement having been posted only 3 hours ago, visitor comments are already designated as "closed." Allowing that this was done intentionally and isn't a technical bug (possibly related to a very recent site re-design), Corus/QR management is left appearing mortified at the prospect of revealing even the smallest sample of related listener/public reaction.

http://www.newstalk770.com/2013/08/06/2954/

[45 RPM]

I assume the weekend Adler show will be billed as The Best Of Adler.

Now there's an oxymoron if I ever heard one.

[isthisthingon]

Interesting how, in spite of the newstalk770.com web page for this announcement having been posted only 3 hours ago, visitor comments are already designated as "closed." Allowing that this was done intentionally and isn't a technical bug (possibly related to a very recent site re-design), Corus/QR management is left appearing mortified at the prospect of revealing even the smallest sample of related listener/public reaction.

http://www.newstalk770.com/2013/08/06/2954/

Comments are probably closed in response to junk email from the same anonymous trolls who vowed to withdraw their billions from RBC over a foreign workers mis-step, and insist they all vote often in every election and will ensure that the Mayor/Premier/PM/RCMP/Chretien/Obama/The Queen/LBJ and anyone else who isn't a Tim Horton's and WildRose Party sheep will be turfed in the next election - the dates of which they do not know.

[groundwave]

Interesting how, in spite of the newstalk770.com web page for this announcement having been posted only 3 hours ago, visitor comments are already designated as "closed." Allowing that this was done intentionally and isn't a technical bug (possibly related to a very recent site re-design), Corus/QR management is left appearing mortified at the prospect of revealing even the smallest sample of related listener/public reaction.

http://www.newstalk770.com/2013/08/06/2954/

Comments are probably closed in response to junk email from the same anonymous trolls who vowed to withdraw their billions from RBC over a foreign workers mis-step, and insist they all vote often in every election and will ensure that the Mayor/Premier/PM/RCMP/Chretien/Obama/The Queen/LBJ and anyone else who isn't a Tim Horton's and WildRose Party sheep will be turfed in the next election - the dates of which they do not know.

Perhaps ... but comments posted to this Calgary Sun report suggest otherwise:

http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/08/06/former-host-mla-dave-taylor-to-be-back-behind-the-microphone-on-news-talk-770

[jon]

Former host, MLA Dave Taylor to be back behind the microphone on News Talk 770
Calgary Sun
First posted: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 08:37 AM MDT
Updated: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 08:59 AM MDT

A familiar voice will be back on the air this month.

New Talk 770 announced Tuesday Dave Taylor, who was previously the afternoon host at the station for nearly 10 years, will return to the 12:30-4 p.m. slot starting Aug. 19.

Taylor, who recently spent eight years as a Calgary MLA, said his new assignment "is going to be fun."

"Although it’s been nearly a decade since I’ve done this full time, this place, this radio station feels like home,” he said.

Part of Taylor's timeslot will include co-hosting the 3-4 p.m. hour with current drive host Angela Kokott.

“To find someone with the political acumen that Dave has, coupled with his colourful and smart sense of the world is a rare find,” according to Garry McKenzie, General manager of Corus Radio Calgary.

“Dave has a great sense of this city and is yet another asset as we build a fresh, new approach to talk radio in Calgary."

McKenzie says Charles Adler will be refocusing his show to a Winnipeg-only program.

“Having Charles as part of our afternoons in Calgary has been a great run and we know he will be a leader in the Winnipeg radio market with his new show,” McKenzie said.

Taylor was one of 16 Liberals elected in a 2004 provincial election that saw an upswing in Grit support and a less-than-stellar Tory majority.

Taylor unseated incumbent Jon Lord in Calgary Currie.

He ran for the leadership vacated by Kevin Taft following a disappointing 2008 election, but lost out to David Swann.

He left the party to sit as an independent in 2010, unhappy with Swann's leadership, later joining with the fledgling Alberta Party.

Despite being its only sitting MLA, Taylor announced he would not be running in the 2012 election.

He was succeeded in Currie by Tory Christine Cusanelli.

[schultz93]

This also comes as last week, Joe McFarland announced on his personal twitter that he will be the new News Director/Assistant Brand Director for 770

Cat's out of the bag. I've been named the new news director and assistant brand director at News Talk 770. #iwillrulewithironfistandbaldhead

https://twitter.com/JoeMcFarland/status ... 1429931008

[Mike Cleaver]

Worked with Dave at CHUM in the newsroom in the early '80s.
The last time I talked to him was at Dick Smyth's Roast in Toronto in the late '90s.
At that event, where everyone was dressed to the nines, the cheap ass program director at CFRA showed up in jeans and a tshirt and tried to hire Dave to do a talk show in the Capitol.
We had a nice chat and Dave happily went back to Calgary.