My coworker was listening and texted me asking if I heard Supriya this morning.  It saddens me to hear she will be leaving for such a horrible reason.

Some people take their radio hosts / programming far too seriously and need to bring it down a few notches. 
 

I was never a huge fan of Supriya's on air work, but she certainly didn't deserve any abuse from anyone, let alone threats. I'm grateful my on air days were before social media, which may be one of the worst things ever created in its destructive power. And I say that even as I'm using it. 

As for finding it online, I haven't been able to yet. I'm hoping they'll eventually put it up because it was quite sincere and quite moving - the kind of genuine emotion you rarely hear on radio these days. I congratulate her on her honesty and her courage. It was remarkable radio. 

If it does turn up, it will most likely be on this page, so check back to see if they've decided to post it. 

As for Supriya, I have no doubt she'll land on her feet quickly. The woman is a lawyer, speaks several languages and is obviously very intelligent. There's a lot of firms that I'm sure will be able to use her considerable talents. 

Am640 does a reroll of the morning show on the weekends, not sure of the exact start time 6:00am or 7:00 so perhaps they'll run Supriya's farewell and Mike Stafford calling in tomorrow morning or Sunday.

I like Supriya's intelligence, her sense of humour and the way she'd slide in a bit of background on a topic at times to bring listeners up to speed.

I hope the questionable human beings threatening her child are found and charged.

(What if Stafford is coming back, but didn't want to announce it during Supriya's farewell?)

All the best to Supriya, I look forward to seeing and reading/listening to what she does next. A roundtable guest on a rival radio station down the road? Probably not...but stranger things have happened. 🤔

Last edited by betaylored (November 27, 2020 6:28 pm)

Dial Twister wrote:

From her Twitter feed....
 
 As some of you may have just heard on air, after submitting my resignation to Corus early last month, today was my last show. Without turning this into an annoyingly long thread, a few things: thank you so much to the listeners over the last 4 years. It's been 1/

There are three more tweets related to the above...
https://twitter.com/supriyadwivedi

And this sure didn't take long...
https://globalnews.ca/author/Supriya-Dwivedi/
 

Reading through all that drivel, can somebody explain how Twitter has done anything but damage to the world?
 

grilled.cheese wrote:

Some people take their radio hosts / programming far too seriously and need to bring it down a few notches.  

And in the inverse of that, is it possible the hosts take their commenters too seriously? I have no idea, but perhaps Supriya's motivation wasn't 100% the "hateful commentators" - maybe she was tiring of the gig or wanted to try something else - and ultimately it's your own life and career and you have to do what's right for you, so she has every right to make this decision and step away, of course. But any remotely public figure has to deal with this and many deal with it as just "background noise" and tune it out or choose not to be bothered by it.

Jody Thornton wrote:

Charlie wrote:

Reading through all that drivel, can somebody explain how Twitter has done anything but damage to the world?
 

Why was what she wrote drivel in your estimation?
She seems to have had a rough time with this, and also wanted to express her gratitude to listeners and colleagues.
 

Not what she wrote, what everybody else wrote.  Twitter brings down any conversation in about 2 seconds.  Utter garbage, for the most part.
 

'market'.

echomaster wrote:

Didn't care for SD - she wasn't a talk-show host.  She was a wealth of knowledge of 'getting into the political weeds'.  I do miss that - no Taylor Parnaby to give me the facts and then break it down.  Oh well, GNR640 is somewhat rudderless as evidenced by letting Conrad Black go because of his completely truthful statement that Canada is NOT a systemically racist country - despite what the woke-folk (640 managers) 'feel'

Love him or loath him, I miss Lord Black.  His weekly chat with Oakley was my favourite segment of the week, on any station. 
 

Supriya: I'm getting rape and death threats against my family.

Corus lawyer: You knew you were woking at a station with a conservative audience.

 

RadioAaron wrote:

Supriya: I'm getting rape and death threats against my family.

Corus lawyer: You knew you were woking at a station with a conservative audience.

 

hmm... if conservative is code word for racist perhaps... but I would argue not all conservatives are racist.   The line is crossed when then people start making death and rape threats.    If they didn't like her views, fine, but this to me is clearly people going to far and in fact attacking her and her family because she was a woman of colour.    I think Corus would not want to try to make excuses for this regardless if they view their listeners as "conservative".    Corus should infact try to deal with the issue and make it known racists are not welcome. 

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Not all CFMJ boot boys carry ragged, dog-eared copies of The Turner Diaries to COVID closure protests. Some leave them at home.

RadioActive wrote:

It finally made the Toronto Star.

Vicious online abuse of talk-show host Supriya Dwivedi a reminder of dangers for women in the public eye

This just confirms again how poor Toronto news organizations are at covering local media.  The Star is actually the first established media to cover this story.  In other large markets this would have been covered and commented on at length days ago.   But Toronto?...zzzzz  

This is a sad and very disturbing story, and it seems like Toronto media is handling the situation the same amateurish way that Corus did.  And the excuse of cutbacks doesn't cut it.  They all have the people and resources to give this story the profile it should have...but so far Toronto media has decided not to. 

Corus's legal response as stated in the Star, if true, is appalling. Supriya was a smart lady working at a stupid station.

Last edited by alangee (December 2, 2020 9:29 pm)

ED1 wrote:

Supriya will be on "Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen" on Friday morning at 11 AM ET talking about her departure. Ryan Jespersen was also a former Corus radio host in Edmonton until he was turfed by the company back in September. His show streams live on ryanjespersen,com, Mixlr, and YouTube. 

https://twitter.com/ryanjespersen/status/1333944415509835776

Thanks ED1, Supriya is moving the conversation and public awareness forward about how women, and people of colour are treated on and off the airwaves. It's the expression "Use your power for good." in action...with a personal cost tho...