Angelo's Media Shack

On this week's edition of "The Week That Was In Worldwide Media", we'll breakdown a longtime cable news network in the United States changing names, Project Runway Canada returns after a 16-year hiatus, and a Winnipeg TV personality joins the CFWM-FM morning show! Here's the breakdown of the top 3 stories of what happened this week in worldwide media: Story #1: MSNBC rebrands as MS NOW after 29 years As of yesterday at 7am ET, MSNBC was relaunched as MS NOW, amid the channel's split with NBC News. It comes less than a year after NBCUniversal announced its intent to spin off most of its cable networks to a new subsidiary called Versant. The last program under the MSNBC brand was the weekend edition of Morning Joe, while the first program under the new brand was The Weekend. Rolling news blocks under the (anchor name) Reports will continue to air on the channel, but the primetime programs that air on Monday to Friday will also remain on the channel. As a result ...

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...