Like many of you, I was following the Lytton fire story on Canada Day and the day before.
Formerly News 1130, once the clock strikes midnight, CKWX gets a feed from midnight to 6 am from ??? and it's called "All News Radio."
I have no idea from what studio this gawd awful feed comes from. But, sorry, it sounds like sh*t ! A second rate, sucks sh*t, radio news show ?
As a first time listener to All News Radio, (but, a long time listener of News1130), I had to hold my nose, this morning, while listening to Azi Cudjurian, the female newsreader who not only seems fresh out of school, but she can't seem to read two consecutive sentences properly.
Why would you hire someone like that ! If someone cannot read, why are they on the air ! The credibility of the whole show goes out the window, especially for a networked news show.
Don't they teach the young ones over at Rogers how to pre-read their scripts and concentrate on the presentation. That's what I was taught at BCIT broadcasting school !
Most annoying, though, is her deadpan, lacklustre read, kind of a reminder of Jules Knox at the Global Okanagan anchor desk.
Just brutal !
Meanwhile, no re-writing of any MAJOR, breaking previous stories, like the fire story in Lytton ?
They have played the same fire story by Monika Gul for at least three consecutive hours !
Can't Rogers Radio afford to hire a re-write desker to keep the stories fresh for the on air people.
I heard another newsreader named Zia Khan on the same show. He has much more potential as a news reader than the young woman. But he introduced his show as "Welcome to Tuesday, July 2nd," then corrected himself to say "Friday July 2nd." LOL Then, the same reader calls the program, "News 1130" instead of All News Radio.
A big fail, I'd say ?
The other disappointment with All News Radio was the general lack of local breaking stories from Vancouver.
Such as, there have been at least 150 deaths during the recent heatwave in the Vancouver area. But, not a single story about that, heard during All News Radio's Friday AM edition.
Instead, there is a mention of a wire story about a preponderance of heat wave deaths in SEATTLE ! But, nothing mentioned about Vancouver's deaths.
The other thing to ponder is how radio and television in Vancouver got their proverbial asses kicked, as in "scooped" by the Vancouver Sun newspaper, regarding the first known deaths of the Lytton fires.
Postmedia is reporting that a couple in their 60's died while hiding in a ditch nearby their Lytton home. According to the son of this couple, a power pole broke off on his parent's property and fell over the entrance to the ditch, causing the demise of his parents.
But, not a single mention from any of you in the electronic media in Vancouver, about those two deaths.
Meanwhile, Rogers Vancouver sent two reporters to Lytton (Monika Gul and Sonia Aslam) to cover the fires.
While there, could they not have asked the local RCMP to confirm the deaths of the elder couple ? A good example of lazy reporting, if you ask me !
Meanwhile, Global Vancouver, who had the best fire coverage, so far, in my opinion, also failed to follow up on those deaths.
Disgraceful, and a good example of sloppy, lazy reporting.