Challenge: Canadian talk radio

Yes, I mean US-style talk radio. In the Thirties, I can see Philippe Hamel for the left and Fr. Lionel Groulx (our Coughlin) as the Glenn Beck analogue.

For non-Canucks: Duplessis frequently Godwined in his wartime speeches (comparing feds to Nazis and vice-versa), so this is part of the QC political discourse.
 

Sachyriel

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Ethel Starkin an interview as the first woman soloist in the British Empire over the radio. Interview her, maybe she can make feminism in Canada a bit stronger by taking calls about her life, she encourages girls to go out and be brave in this new world and take advantage of technology. Because she is really really good many people hear her and attitudes toward women might be more progressive.

Something like that RB?

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Phyllis Dewar was the first woman to win 4 gold medals in the British Empire games, a swimmer. She could be a second interview person, for a similar reason. Perhaps it doubles the effect?
 
mmmeee0: precisely. :D I can think of many people for the Right. Bill Aberhart got his start as a radio preacher, and became the first Socred Premier of Alberta.
 

Sachyriel

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mmmeee0: precisely. :D I can think of many people for the Right. Bill Aberhart got his start as a radio preacher, and became the first Socred Premier of Alberta.

Kay, you think we could get Emma Goldman on the radio to support sending troops to fight the Fascists in Spain or sending volunteers?
 
Not Emma Goldman- that would never be allowed. Remember, the CBC was originally designed by King as a broadcaster cum regulator.
 
Sorry. We got Canadian Talk Radio - Peter Warren, Corus Communications on one side, Cross Country Checkup on the CBC side.

The trouble is that Canada just doesn't have the same elements that drive American Talk Radio.
 
mmmeee0: Of course. If the Revolution Tranquille is delayed (which involves political PODs here in Quebec) then we might have a homegrown version of the OTL American Religious Right, especially in Quebec and the West. They'll be closely linked to a surviving Union Nationale and perhaps even the federal PC Party, depending on whether the Liberals stay pro-business or not.
 
For those who don't believe me about the possibility of a Canadian RR, I can make it happen in a TL... ;)

Go for it. AB, SK, Quebec and the Orange Order all thrown together in one bigass unholy alliance... You could make it into a Canada-centric FaT/World of Laughter type dystopia quite easily too...
 
For those who don't believe me about the possibility of a Canadian RR, I can make it happen in a TL... ;)

I believe it, but I hope to never see it. It's bad enough that those clowns have taken over virtually all conservative political discourse in the USA, but a religious right is about the last thing that Canada needs at any point in history.
 
I know that nobody on this site remembers Peter Gzowsky, who babbled constantly on the CBC from 1971 (This Country in the Morning) to 1997 (Morningside). He did interviews with every single person in Canada, it seemed, over his career, and, while often boring and tedious (Margaret Atwood types), there were diamonds in the rough. Armenian terrorists promising to blow up the TTC subway, a Canadian who invents the world's best ashtray, (I have one by my bed), Great stuff. He had a voice as memorable as James Earl Jones, and was easy on the ears.
 
I know that nobody on this site remembers Peter Gzowsky, who babbled constantly on the CBC from 1971 (This Country in the Morning) to 1997 (Morningside). He did interviews with every single person in Canada, it seemed, over his career, and, while often boring and tedious (Margaret Atwood types), there were diamonds in the rough. Armenian terrorists promising to blow up the TTC subway, a Canadian who invents the world's best ashtray, (I have one by my bed), Great stuff. He had a voice as memorable as James Earl Jones, and was easy on the ears.
Hear, hear! Yup, those were the days!
 
Thanks to all contributors. I've decided to place this idea within one dystopic TL involving the US as well. To get an idea of some of the political developments, search for my thread "PM Maurice Duplessis". Not final, but most of those events will be familiar...
 
POD 1935, when the modern CBC was born and Mackenzie King returned to power.

Simple - keep the Dominion Network alive to some degree. The Trans-Canada Network was basically a cross between the NBC Blue Network, the BBC Home Service and Third Programme, and modern-day NPR, whilst the Dominion Network was designed to work with the private affiliates with all the light music, entertainment, and variety shows (of course, because the CBC didn't want private-sector competition :rolleyes:), so I would probably think that some sort of talk show (probably at the Larry King level - thus probably similar to shows like Radio-Canada's Christiane Charette and Maisonneuve en direct) in the morning hours could work.
 
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