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Happy April Fool's Day
Posted by Mike Klassen on April 1, 2008 in Podcasts
Morning radio shows all love to get into the game now of spoofing the public on April Fool's Day, including CBC Radio One where a Senator inexplicably leaves his gold-plated-pension lifestyle for the rough and tumble of civic politics. Yawn.
CKNW did an even more lame spoof around developing Lost Lagoon. It was so transparent that this was a spoof that only the blue hairs called the station in protest. If you really want to go to town on the Lost Lagoon idea, how about building a Casino on the lake? Or re-opening the lagoon to Coal Harbour and have a marina there? Start an Aqua Bus service across the pond with loud motorized boats that run until midnight? If you're going to start a controversy give it some pizazz, for Pete's sake.
You want a good gag, listen to what we did on Z95 (now Crave) on April 1st, 1994 (audio re-posted below). We got a lot of people really pissed that morning, which is the whole point of AFD, don't you think?
Tagged: april fool's day, radio
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