Angelo's Media Shack

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...

On this week's edition on "The Week That Was In Worldwide Media", we breakdown a longtime Windsor radio personality moving over to a rebranded sister station, Ryan Seacrest's first-ever $1 million winner on the syndicated version of Wheel of Fortune, and another French TV channel gets a rebrand! Here's the breakdown of the top 3 stories of what happened this week in worldwide media: Story #1: Dan McDonald moves to the rebranded sister station 89X (CIMX-FM) Dan McDonald is moving to the resurrected sister station 89X (CIMX-FM), after almost 6 years hosting late mornings at AM800 CKLW. His final show on CKLW will be on Tuesday, October 7, while his afternoon debut at 89X will come the following day. In an Instagram post, McDonald said: "These years at AM800 have been nothing short of incredible. The conversations, the debates, the community connections — it’s been the honour of my life. Thank you to everyone who tuned in, called in, and shared this ride with me...