Angelo's Media Shack

On this week's edition of "The Week That Was In Worldwide Media", we breakdown the big TV ratings for the 7th game of the World Series, Heather Hiscox's farewell from the CBC after 20 years of hosting the morning news, and a former Ottawa radio announcer comes back to Montreal! Here's the breakdown of the top 3 stories of what happened this week in worldwide media: Story #1: Game 7 of the 2025 World Series is the most-watched MLB game worldwide since 1991 Last weekend's Game 7 of the World Series was watched by 51 million viewers in the United States, Canada, and Japan, making it the most-watched MLB game worldwide in 34 years. In the United States, over 27.3 million viewers watched the 7th and deciding game of the World Series on Fox, making it the most-watched World Series game in 8 years, while here in Canada, an average audience 10.9 million viewers saw the Toronto Blue Jays lose to Los Angeles Dodgers in a wild Game 7 on Sportsnet, Sportsnet+ and Citytv, ...

On this week's edition on "The Week That Was In Worldwide Media", we breakdown the Christmas music season kicking off in the United States, massive TV ratings for the World Series on both sides of the border, and several TV channels from The Walt Disney Company were pulled after their existing contract was set to officially expire due to an unresolved dispute over carriage fees! Here's the breakdown of the top 3 stories of what happened this week in worldwide media: Story #1: The Christmas music season begins in some U.S. markets After KLO-FM/Salt Lake City, UT dropped their classic alternative format in favour of all-Christmas music on October 7th, some U.S. radio stations have officially made the switch to all-Christmas. WAKW/Cincinnati, OH flipped the switch last Friday, as well as iHeartMedia's WMXL/Lexington, KY, both having the distinction of flipping the switch to all-Christmas annually on Halloween. Townsquare Media's WTSS/Buffalo, NY and iHeartMedia...

On this week's edition on "The Week That Was In Worldwide Media", we breakdown the closings of 4 WildBrain TV channels, massive TV changes for the NBA season in the United States, and some big TV viewership numbers for the 7th game of the ALCS here in Canada! Here's the breakdown of the top 3 stories of what happened this week in worldwide media: Story #1: WildBrain exits the linear TV business in Canada WildBrain has officially exited the linear TV business here in Canada, after the closures of the Family Channel, Family Jr., WildBrainTV, and Télémagino happened on October 23rd at 6am Eastern (midnight for some providers). The closures were announced on August 25th, over a month after Corus Entertainment announced too that they'll close ABC Spark, Disney Junior, Disney XD, La Chaîne Disney and Nickelodeon on September 1st, and 2 years after Family's former sister channel, Vrak, closed down due to Videotron dropped the channel in August alongside sister channe...

WildBrain's 4 linear TV channels in Canada, Family, Family Jr., WildBrainTV and Télémagino have officially shut down for good as of 6am Eastern Time this morning. The reason that i've mentioned in my special bulletin back in August is because the company failed to negotiate a new carriage agreement with the 2 largest TV providers in Canada, Bell (Fibe, Satellite, TV App, Virgin Plus TV), and Rogers (Digital Cable, Xfinity TV, Shaw Direct plus their former cable systems in Western Canada and Northwestern Ontario). The long-running Family Channel first debuted on September 1st, 1988 at 6am Eastern and Mountain Time with a message from the late Susan Rubes, the channel's 1st president, leading into the channel's first program, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was an anime series produced by the company's predecessors, Cinar. When Canada's Family Channel first hit the airwaves in 1988, the majority of the programs were from the Walt Disney Company's programming...

On this week's edition on "The Week That Was In Worldwide Media", we breakdown the upcoming retirement of a legendary TV news anchor in Kamloops, Apple signing a streaming deal with Formula One, and the announcement of next year's Ontario Curling Championships broadcasting on Cogeco's YourTV! Here's the breakdown of the top 3 stories of what happened this week in worldwide media: Story #1: Bill O'Donovan will retire in January 2026 after an impressive 50-year broadcasting career It's the end of an era for TV news viewers in Kamloops, as Citytv affiliate CFJC-TV/Kamloops, BC announced that longtime anchor Bill O'Donovan will retire on January 2, 2026, after an impressive 50-year broadcasting career. A proud native of 150 Mile House, O’Donovan began his first stint with the station in 1979, joining Earl Seitz in the station’s sports department. He and his wife Audry moved to CKCK-TV in 1986, spending 15 years in the Saskatchewan capital. He returned ...

On this week's edition on "The Week That Was In Worldwide Media", we breakdown the TV ratings for the ALDS between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees, another TV channel shutdown, this time it's in France, and the 1st phase of the MSNBC rebrand happened this week! Here's the breakdown of the top 3 stories of what happened this week in worldwide media: Story #1: ALDS is a ratings hit in Canada According to Numeris, the 1st game of the ALDS between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees drew an estimated 2.7 million viewers, with the Blue Jays Central pregame and postgame shows were split at 839,000 and 723,000, respectively. Games 2 and 3 had viewership steady at 3.2 million viewers, but Game 4 had an estimated viewership of 3.3 million, but in the United States, the 3rd game of the series had an estimated viewership of 4.9 million, but the Game 4 viewership in the United States is unknown at the time of publishing. The Blue Jays will play in th...