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CKOC

2025-03-06T10:33:02Z

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{{Short description|Radio station in Hamilton, Ontario}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = CKOC
| logo = 1150 CKOC.png
| logo_size = 150px
| city = [[Hamilton, Ontario]]
| country = CA
| area = [[Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area]]
| branding = 1150 CKOC
| sister_stations = [[CHAM (AM)|CHAM]]
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1922|5|1|p=y|br=yes}}
| frequency = 1150 [[Hertz|kHz]]
| format = [[Classic hits]]
| power = 50,000 [[watt]]s
| class = B
| former_callsigns = '''CKMO''' (1992–1993)
| former_frequencies = 410 metres (1922–1925) 880 kHz (1925–1930) 1120 kHz (1930–1931) 630 kHz (1931–1933) 1120 kHz (1933–1941)
| callsign_meaning = '''CK''' '''O'''ntario '''C'''ycle (Original Owner’s Parent Company)
| owner = Neeti Prakash Ray (CINA Media Group)
| affiliations =
| licensee =
| webcast =
| website = [https://www.1150ckoc.com 1150ckoc.com]
}}

'''CKOC''' (1150 [[AM broadcasting|AM]]) is a [[radio station]] in [[Hamilton, Ontario]]. It is owned by Neeti Prakash Ray and is part of the CINA Media Group. CKOC is a 50,000-watt, Class B station operating on a regional (not [[clear-channel]]) broadcast frequency, with transmitters located near Empire Corners in [[Haldimand County, Ontario|Haldimand County]], about 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Hamilton. A six-tower [[directional array|directional]] antenna is used at all times. The station has a [[classic hits]] format promoted as "Superhits of the 70s and 80s".

== History ==
=== Early history ===
CKOC has the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating radio station in Canada, on the air since May 1, 1922. Station [[CHAB (AM)|CHAB]], in [[Moose Jaw]], Saskatchewan, began [[broadcasting]] a week earlier, on April 23, 1922, and is still on the air today, but was shut down for a period of time in 1933 before re-opening. As well, [[CINW|CFCF]], later CINW, [[Montreal]], had traced its sign on to 1919, but ceased operations in 2010.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

In 1923, [[Ivan Miller (journalist)|Ivan Miller]] broadcast on CKOC the first [[play-by-play]] report on a golf tournament in Canada, by using a system of [[flag semaphore]] from [[Scout (Scouting)|boy scouts]] at each hole.{{efn|Information on the golf broadcast is compiled from these quoted sources:
*"Miller employed a flag system of communication with local boy scouts to provide play-by-play of the first golf broadcast by CKOC in 1923".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hamiltonsportshalloffame.com/ivan-miller/|title=Ivan Miller|date=2022|website=Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame|location=Hamilton, Ontario|access-date=February 11, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Five legends enshrined in Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame|last=Newman|first=Mark|date=February 25, 2022|newspaper=[[The Hamilton Spectator]]|url=https://www.thespec.com/news/five-legends-enshrined-in-hamilton-sports-hall-of-fame/article_25e38985-cdaa-54f6-9e0e-a7a08845cc2c.html|access-date=February 11, 2025}}</ref>
*"From the rolling hills of Ancaster, Miller gave the first play-by-play report on a golf tournament in Canada, using a flag system by local boy scouts".<ref>{{cite news|title=Friends mourn Ivan–unique, untiring|last=Hanley|first=Bob|date=June 3, 1967|newspaper=[[The Hamilton Spectator]]|page=12|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hamilton-spectator-miller-1967/165299094/}}</ref>
*"Miller broadcast play-by-play of a golf tournament by using flag semaphore from boy scouts at each hole".<ref name="Golf-honours">{{cite news|title=Golf Honors Miller|date=April 12, 1967|newspaper=[[The Hamilton Spectator]]|page=28|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hamilton-spectator-miller-1967/165394485/}}</ref>}} In the same year, he began broadcasting [[ice hockey]] games on CKOC from the [[Barton Street Arena]].<ref>{{cite news|title=All About Uncle Ive|last=Hanley|first=Bob |date=May 6, 1965|newspaper=[[The Hamilton Spectator]]|page=21|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hamilton-spectator-miller-1965/165838078/}}</ref>

Originally, CKOC's station was based in the Lower City at the corner of [[King William Street (Hamilton, Ontario)|King William]] and [[John Street (Hamilton, Ontario)|John Street]]s, and was an offshoot of the Wentworth Radio and Supply Company. In the spring of 1922, the station became the third radio station in all of Canada. Other broadcast locations over the years for CKOC include, the 11th floor of the Royal Connaught Hotel in the downtown core, the Lister Block building on [[James Street (Hamilton, Ontario)|James]] & [[King William Street (Hamilton, Ontario)|King Williams Streets]], and a studio on Garfield Avenue near [[King Street (Hamilton, Ontario)|King]] & [[Sherman Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)|Sherman Avenue North]] in a building that once housed the Garfield exchange switching equipment of the Bell Telephone Company.<ref name=CKOC2>{{cite press release| title =A Tale of Two Stations (Doug Foley)| publisher =The Hamilton Spectator|first= Doug |last=Foley |date = April 16, 2007 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.thespec.com/life/local-history/spec175/2021/05/08/ckoc-it-all-began-at-a-five-watt-radio-station-at-king-william-and-john-.html CKOC: It all began at a five-watt radio station at King William and John], [https://archive.st/archive/2021/5/www.thespec.com/ahi5/www.thespec.com/life/local-history/spec175/2021/05/08/ckoc-it-all-began-at-a-five-watt-radio-station-at-king-william-and-john-.html Archived], ''[[The Hamilton Spectator]]'', May 8, 2021</ref>
During its early years, the station broadcast on a number of frequencies, including 880, 630 and 1120 kHz; the station moved to its current frequency of 1150 in 1941.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

CKOC became a [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] affiliate in 1936 and would be an affiliate of the CBC's [[Trans-Canada Network]] until 1962.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

===Later history: CHR and Oldies formats===
CKOC featured a [[contemporary hit radio]] format from 1960 to 1992, and increased its power to 50,000 watts in 1979. In August 1983, CKOC began broadcasting in [[AM stereo]] using the [[Motorola]] [[C-QUAM]] system.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

On February 17, 1992, at noon, after a countdown of the Top 500 hits of all time (a long-running annual tradition at the station), and CKOC stopped broadcasting in AM stereo, CKOC debuted "[[Oldies]] 1150" with the new calls CKMO ("More Oldies").<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayHl1f18sGo CKOC flips from Top 40 to Oldies]</ref> However, on April 2, 1993, the station reverted to the heritage CKOC calls, admitting that dropping the calls in the first place had been a mistake and that the station's listeners wanted the original calls back. The station mentioned its [[Top 40]] heritage on the air as part of the current oldies format, with liners such as, "The station that played 'em then... plays 'em again". The "Good Times, Great Oldies" branding started sometime in late 2006.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

From 1928 to 1955, the call letters CKMO were used at a pioneer radio station in [[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver]]. From 1993 to 2012, the [[CKMO (AM)|CKMO]] call sign was again used at a radio station in [[Victoria, British Columbia]]. In 2014, the CKMO call letters moved to a radio station in [[Orangeville, Ontario|Orangeville]] as [[CKMO-FM]].{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

CKOC first applied for an FM station in 1968, but the FM station did not take to the air until 1986, as [[adult contemporary]] station [[CKLH-FM]].{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

CKOC has suffered from much co-channel interference from [[CJRC-FM|CJRC]] in [[Gatineau]], [[Quebec]] at night, particularly in Southwestern Ontario and north of [[Toronto]] which received a relatively clear signal for CKOC during the day. In these areas, CKOC was almost impossible to pick up on some nights due to CJRC. This interference was remedied in Spring 2007, when CJRC moved to the FM dial and closed the AM signal.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

On October 28, 2007, CKOC was purchased by [[Astral Media]] as part of its purchase of Standard Broadcasting.
[[Image:CKOC AM.png|thumb|Logo under classic hits format, 2013-15]]
In 2012, CKOC, known as one of "Canada's Oldest radio stations", turned 90 years old.<ref>[http://www.cbj.ca/ckoc_oldies_1150-am_canada_s_oldest_radio_station_turns_90/ CKOC Oldies 1150-AM – Canada’s Oldest Radio Station Turns 90], ''The Canadian Business Journal''</ref><ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/talk/paul-wilson-canada-s-oldest-radio-still-rockin-1.1216979 Paul Wilson: Canada's oldest radio still rockin'], ''[[CBC News]]'', May 15, 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.1150ckoc.ca/Features/90thBirthday.aspx Classic Hits CKOC 1150 – CKOC 90th Birthday]</ref>

In mid-June 2013, after [[CING-FM]] switched formats from Classic Hits to hot AC, CKOC added more 1970s' and 1980s' music to its playlist. It was the first time since February 1992, when the station changed its format, that any music later than the 1970s has been played on the station, a trend mirroring most other oldies outlets in North America, which have moved away from the oldies positioning and have adopted [[classic hits]] approaches. The station dropped the "Great Oldies" reference and referred to itself as "Classic Hits 1150 CKOC".{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

On June 27, 2013, Astral Media was absorbed by [[Bell Media]], making CKOC a Bell owned-and-operated station.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

On November 4, 2014, the CRTC approved an application by Bell Media to modify CKOC's facilities from a five-tower day pattern and a ten-tower night pattern with a transmitter power of 50,000 watts to a six-tower operation with a daytime transmitter power of 50,000 watts and a night-time transmitter power of 20,000 watts.<ref>[http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2014/2014-565.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2014-565], CKOC Hamilton - Technical change, ''CRTC'', November 4, 2014</ref>

===TSN Radio 1150===
[[File:TSN 1150 Hamilton.svg|thumb|right|Logo as ''TSN Radio 1150'']]

On May 28, 2015, Bell Media announced that CKOC would flip to sports talk later that fall, joining the [[TSN Radio]] network as ''TSN Radio 1150''. As part of a new agreement, the station became the home station for the CFL's [[Hamilton Tiger-Cats]], and the Hamilton affiliate for the [[Toronto Raptors]] and [[Toronto Maple Leafs]]; the station also later acquired the rights to [[McMaster Marauders football]]. This move also made the station Hamilton's first-ever all-sports station.<ref>[http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/93128/tsn-radio-coming-to-hamilton/ TSN Radio Coming To Hamilton]</ref> On September 2, CKOC announced they would flip to the format on Labour Day, September 7, in conjunction with the Tiger-Cats vs. [[Toronto Argonauts|Argonauts]] [[Labour Day Classic]]. CKOC ended its [[classic hits]] format with ''The Last Big 500 Countdown'' of the top classic hits during the Labour Day weekend before the launch of the sports format at 10 a.m. on September 7. The #1 song in the countdown, and the last song played on CKOC, was "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|Satisfaction]]" by [[The Rolling Stones]].<ref>[http://formatchange.com/ckoc-flips-to-tsn-radio/ CKOC Flips To TSN Radio]</ref><ref>[http://www.chch.com/ckoc-goes-out-rockin/ CKOC Goes Out Rockin'], Adam Atkinson, ''[[CHCH-DT|CHCH-TV]]'', September 3, 2015</ref>

The station carried three local programs, ''Ticats at Noon'', ''Game Day'' and ''Tatti & [[Marshall Ferguson|Marsh]].'' The rest of its programming was filled by simulcasts from sister station CHUM, and [[Fox Sports Radio]]. Initial ratings for TSN Radio in Hamilton were extremely poor, as CKOC's market share dropped from 2.9% to 0.3%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepublicrecord.ca/2016/06/numeris-rations-for-hamilton-radio-show-tsn-1150-tanking-other-stations-down-too/|title=Numeris Ratings for Hamilton Radio Show TSN 1150 Tanking, Other Stations Down Too|date=7 June 2016}}</ref> With approximately 5,900 listeners a week, CKOC is now the lowest-rated station in the Hamilton market.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

In 2016, CKOC acquired rights to [[Hamilton Bulldogs]] hockey. On April 3, 2018, CKOC began broadcasting ''Sunday Night's Main Event,'' a [[professional wrestling]] talk show hosted by [[Jason Agnew]] (former host of the similar program ''[[Live Audio Wrestling]]'').{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

===BNN Bloomberg Radio===
[[File:CKOC BNN Bloomberg Radio 1150 logo.png|thumb|right|Logo as ''Bloomberg Radio 1150'']]

On February 9, 2021, Bell Media ended the TSN Radio formats at CKOC, [[CFRW]] in Winnipeg and [[CKST]] in Vancouver. CKOC then flipped to ''BNN Bloomberg Radio'', a business news format featuring programming from [[Bloomberg Radio]] and Bell Media's [[BNN Bloomberg]] television channel. The format originated from [[CFTE]] in Vancouver.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TSN 1040 off the air as latest victim of Bell Media cuts|url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/tsn-1040-radio-off-air-bell-media|access-date=2021-02-09|website=Daily Hive|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Beggsy|date=2021-02-09|title=BREAKING: Bell Media Ignites Fury, Cancels TSN 1040 & Other Sports Radio Stations|url=https://www.nucksmisconduct.com/2021/2/9/22274695/bell-media-cancels-tsn-1040|access-date=2021-02-09|website=Nucks Misconduct|language=en|archive-date=2021-02-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209174021/https://www.nucksmisconduct.com/2021/2/9/22274695/bell-media-cancels-tsn-1040|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Bell Media Abruptly Drops Sports Format From TSN Radio Stations In Vancouver, Winnipeg, Edmonton|url=https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/204304/bell-media-abruptly-drops-sports-format-from-tsn-r|access-date=2021-02-09|website=All Access|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Ticats game radio broadcasts in limbo after TSN 1150 Hamilton switches to business feed|url=https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2021/02/09/ticats-game-radio-broadcasts-in-limbo-after-tsn-1150-hamilton-switches-to-business-feed.html|access-date=2021-03-15|website=Hamilton Spectator|date=9 February 2021|language=en}}</ref> Subsequently, the Tiger-Cats announced that they would pursue a new radio home.<ref>{{Cite tweet|number=1359260877615206402|user=Ticats|title=A statement from the Tiger-Cats regarding today's news about TSN 1150 Hamilton:|date=February 9, 2021}}</ref>

===Sale to CINA Media Group, return to classic hits===
On June 14, 2023, as part of a mass corporate restructuring at Bell Media, the company shut down six of their AM radio stations nationwide, and announced their intention to sell three others, including CKOC and CHAM.<ref>[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/253090/bell-media-shuts-6-ams-to-sell-3-others-as-part-of-companywide-cuts/ Bell Media Shuts 6 AMs, to Sell 3 Others, as Part of Companywide Cuts]</ref> In November 2023, Neeti P. Ray filed an application with the CRTC to acquire CKOC, CHAM, and Bell's Windsor AM station [[CKWW]], for $445,000. Ray's applications stated he intended to continue operating the stations under the same terms and conditions as the existing licences.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thiessen |first=Connie |date=2023-11-20 |title=Neeti P. Ray makes bid to buy Bell Media AM stations in Hamilton, Windsor |url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/neeti-p-ray-makes-bid-to-buy-bell-media-am-stations-in-hamilton-windsor/ |access-date=2024-08-24 |website=Broadcast Dialogue |language=en-US}}</ref> The applications were approved on June 26, 2024.<ref>[https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2024/2024-139.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2024-139], CKWW Windsor, CHAM Hamilton and CKOC Hamilton – Change in ownership and effective control, ''CRTC'', June 26, 2024</ref>

On August 19, 2024, CKOC was relaunched by the new ownership, reviving its previous classic hits format with a focus on music from the 1970s and 1980s. Former [[CKDX-FM]] host Kent Chambers became the station's morning host, while former [[CJXY-FM]] host Scott Penfold became its afternoon host. <ref>{{Cite web |title=CKOC & CKWW Relaunch With Classic Hits |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/278382/ckoc-ckww-relaunch-with-classic-hits/ |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=RadioInsight |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.ckoc1150archives.com/ CKOC 1150 Charts Site | CKOC1150Archives.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207145225/http://www.ckoc1150archives.com/ |date=2011-02-07 }}
* [https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-hamilton-niagara/ckoc-am/ CKOC] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
* {{RecnetCanada|CKOC}}
* [http://radio-locator.com/info/CKOC-AM Radio-locator information on CKOC]

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Smashing Time

2025-01-18T18:02:48Z

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{{Short description|1967 British film by Desmond Davis}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Smashing Time
| image = Smashingtime.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| producer = [[Roy Millichip]] [[Carlo Ponti]]
| director = [[Desmond Davis]]
| writer = [[George Melly]]
| starring = [[Rita Tushingham]] [[Lynn Redgrave]] [[Michael York]]
| music = [[John Addison]] [[Skip Bifferty]]
| cinematography = Manny Wynn
| editing = [[Barrie Vince]]
| studio = Partisan Productions [[List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company#Selmur_Productions|Selmur Pictures]] (as Selmur Productions)
| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1967|12|27|London|df=y}}
| runtime = 96 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = $630,000<ref name="variety">"ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", ''Variety'', 31 May 1973 p 3</ref>
| gross = $290,000<ref name="variety"/>
}}

'''''Smashing Time''''' is a 1967 British [[satirical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Desmond Davis]] starring [[Rita Tushingham]] and [[Lynn Redgrave]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=smashing time |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150044721 |access-date=10 December 2023 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> It is a satire on the 1960s media-influenced phenomenon of [[Swinging London]]. It was written by [[George Melly]].

==Plot==
{{Long plot|section|date=October 2024}}
Brenda and Yvonne, two girls from the [[North of England]], arrive at [[St Pancras railway station]] in [[London]] to seek fame and fortune. However, their image of the city is quickly tarnished when they realise that they cannot pay for their meals in a [[greasy spoon]] café as Brenda has been robbed of her savings by a tramp. Yvonne visits [[Carnaby Street]] in the hope of catching the eye of a trendy photographer, Tom Wabe, while Brenda has to stay behind and do the washing up. A messy scene ensues as ketchup is mistaken for washing-up liquid and everyone in the café is drenched in variously-coloured liquids.

Yvonne excitedly tells Brenda that Wabe took her photo for a newspaper and paid her for it. However, when the paper drops that day, Brenda sees Yvonne has been mocked for being out of fashion, and decides to confront Wabe. She finds him at a strange party served by robots (built and introduced by Clive Sword). While she tries to curse him out, Tom attempts to charm her.

The girls get a referral from their new flatmate for hostess jobs at a night club. On their first night there, Yvonne is summoned by affluent Bobby Mome-Rath, who gets her drunk and spirits her to an apartment he keeps for one-night stands. Brenda follows them, sneaks into the apartment, and tries to sabotage the tryst, adding laxative to Bobby's drink and ensuring that his bubble bath gets out of control. Meanwhile, Bobby's building supervisor spies through a hole in the ceiling. He falls through, giving Brenda and Yvonne a chance to escape. When they return to their flat, they learn the club has sacked them.

Brenda is hired by Charlotte Brillig, a dilettante heiress, to manage her exclusive design shop called "Too Much," and is left in charge while her boss meets her ostensible main employee for lunch. When affluent hangers-on come into the shop, Brenda forces them to buy something. Although she sells a lot, Charlotte isn't pleased because nothing is left for rich customers to see. At the shop Brenda meets Tom, who asks her out to lunch. The restaurant, named [[Sweeny Todd]]'s, is where Yvonne has found a job, serving pies in [[Nell Gwynne]] garb. A custard-pie fight starts at the party and spreads to the street. Yvonne is blamed for starting the pie fight and fired. In turn, when Brenda brings Yvonne to the shop, they learn Charlotte has capriciously shut the business down to go on an impulse trip to Greece, leaving both girls again out of work.

The girls watch a [[Candid Camera]]-style TV show on a television in a shop window entitled ''You Can't Help Laughing'' in which an old lady's house is demolished as a joke. When they walk back to their rooming house, they discover the program has also demolished their home as well. Yvonne, as the only name on the lease, wins a reimbursement cheque for £10,000. She decides to invest the prize money in becoming a pop star. Although the live recording of her [[single (music)|single]], "I'm So Young", is patently awful, it becomes highly polished after mixing, and Yvonne's out-of-tune voice is put in tune. It becomes a big hit and Yvonne becomes a star appearing on other programmes like ''Hi-Fi Court'' (a parody of ''[[Juke Box Jury]]'').

Yvonne and Brenda drift apart. As Tom Wabe's new girlfriend, Brenda goes to dinner on his canal barge home and stays the night. They spend the next day taking photos and she goes on to become a top model, while Yvonne's popularity wanes. Yvonne throws a plate at the TV when she sees Brenda in an advert for a new perfume called "Direct Action".

At a glamorous and star-studded party for Yvonne at the top of the [[Post Office Tower]], Yvonne sits alone while everyone else enjoys themselves. Brenda watches the party on [[CCTV]] and sees Tom arrive to be mobbed by adoring girls. She gatecrashes the party only to see Yvonne humiliated when she falls in her own giant cake. Brenda finds the control to the revolving restaurant and turns it to full speed, ending the party in disarray.

The girls walk away in the early morning and decide to return home. The film ends with a reprise of the song "Smashing Time".

==Cast==
{{div-col}}
* [[Rita Tushingham]] as Brenda
* [[Lynn Redgrave]] as Yvonne
* [[Michael York]] as Tom Wabe
* [[Anna Quayle]] as Charlotte Brillig
* [[Irene Handl]] as Mrs. Gimble
* [[Ian Carmichael]] as Bobby Mome-Rath
* [[Jeremy Lloyd]] as Jeremy Tove
* [[Toni Palmer]] as Toni
* [[George A. Cooper]] as Irishman
* [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]] as Dominic the game show host
* [[Arthur Mullard]] as cafe boss
* [[Ronnie Stevens (actor)|Ronnie Stevens]] as 1st waiter
* [[John Clive]] as Sweeney Todd manager
* [[Mike Lennox]] as disc jockey
* [[Sydney Bromley]] as tramp
* [[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]] as the caretaker
* [[Amy Dalby]] as old lady whose house is demolished
* [[Murray Melvin]] as 1st exquisite
* [[Bruce Lacey]] as Clive Sword
* [[Cardew Robinson]] as custard-pie vicar
* [[Tomorrow (band)|Tomorrow]] as The Snarks
* [[Paul Danquah]] as 2nd exquisite
* [[Michael Ward (actor)|Michael Ward]] as elderly shop owner
* [[Sam Kydd]] as workman in greasy spoon cafe
* [[Geoffrey Hughes (actor)|Geoffrey Hughes]] as workman in greasy spoon cafe
* [[Jerold Wells]] as workman
* [[Veronica Carlson]] as actress at party
* [[Valerie Leon]] as Tove's secretary
{{div-col-end}}

==Production==
The film reunited Redgrave, Tushingham, composer [[John Addison]], cinematographer Manny Wynn and director Davis (a camera operator in ''[[A Taste of Honey (film)|A Taste of Honey]]'' (1961)) from ''[[Girl with Green Eyes]]'' (1964). [[Murray Melvin]] and [[Paul Danquah]], Tushingham's co-stars in ''A Taste of Honey'', appear in cameo roles as boutique shop customers. The popular [[BBC]] series ''[[Juke Box Jury]]'' is parodied as ''Hi-Fi Court'', and the UK version of the hidden camera series ''[[Candid Camera]]'' is parodied as ''You Can't Help Laughing!''

''[[Private Eye]]'' magazine at the time referred to the [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen]] and [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]] as, respectively, Brenda and Yvonne.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Osnos |first=Peter |date=29 November 2011 |title=The Longevity of Satire: Celebrating 'Private Eye' at 50 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/the-longevity-of-satire-celebrating-private-eye-at-50/249190/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |website=The Atlantic}}</ref>

Some characters' names are borrowed from [[Lewis Carroll]]'s poetry, chiefly the nonsense poem ''[[Jabberwocky]]'': Charlotte ''Brillig'', Tom ''Wabe'', Mrs ''Gimble'', Bobby ''Mome-Rath'', Jeremy ''Tove'', Toni ''Mimsy'', and rock band The ''Snarks''. The latter was played by [[Tomorrow (band)|Tomorrow]], known at the time of shooting as The In Crowd, and included guitarist [[Steve Howe]], later to be a member of [[Yes (band)|Yes]], who shouts "Let's do it!".<ref>{{cite book|last=Howe|first=Steve|authorlink=Steve Howe|title=All My Yesterdays|page=61|year=2021|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9781785581793}}</ref>

The futuristic art exhibition is held at the ''Jabberwock'' Gallery.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

The theme tune was sung by Tushingham and Redgrave, who also performed several of the numbers in the film. In the 1993 BBC series ''Hollywood UK'', about the British film industry in the 1960s, the actresses appeared in the back of a London taxi singing the theme again.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

==Release==
The film had its premiere to mark the re-opening of the refurbished [[Odeon Leicester Square]] in London on 27 December 1967. The premiere was preceded by a stage show starring [[Cliff Richard]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Surrey Mirror and County Post|date=15 December 1967|page=9|title=Your Chance of a 'Smashing Time'}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cinematreasures.org/theater/841/ |title=Cinema Treasures – Odeon Leicester Square |access-date=27 December 2024 |author=Steffan Laugharne, Ken Roe |work=Cinema Treasures |archive-date=1 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201073447/http://cinematreasures.org/theater/841 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Critical reception==
The film performed poorly at the box office and ABC recorded a loss of $710,000.<ref name="variety" />

''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "A clumsy attempt to create a female comedy team, with Lynn Redgrave as a brassy bully of limited intelligence tyrannising her timid and smaller friend, played by Rita Tushingham with a good deal of eye-rolling. The pair lack the timing and dead-pan humour of [[Laurel and Hardy]], and director Desmond Davis has an enervating habit of slowing down his film in the slapstick scenes as if to make sure that the audience is responding properly. George Melly's script is equally disappointing, suggesting that Swinging London is a myth created by the mass media, but eagerly exploiting the myth it explodes. The London we see is populated largely by flower-power people, velvet-coated queers and eccentric debutantes (with the occasional tramp thrown in for comic relief). The film is in fact at its best when unequivocally parodying the world of the colour supplements. The exhibition of kinetic sculpture, the take-off of ''Juke Box Jury'' and the Tv deodorant commercial are funny if hardly subtle. But the glossy vulgarity of ''Smashing Time'' quickly becomes as irritating as the brash musical score and the discordant colours that constantly fill the screen."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1968 |title=smashing time |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305825232 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=35 |issue=408 |pages=11 |id={{ProQuest|1305825232}} |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

Film critic [[Alexander Walker (critic)|Alexander Walker]] wrote in ''Hollywood England'' that it was a film "whose crude exploitation of [Lynn Redgrave and Rita Tushingham] once more as innocents-at-large in the big city was to show how coarse and knowing the freshness of the cinema had turned once Britain was 'swinging' and the movies had to swing with it".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Walker |first=Alexander |title=Hollywood England: The British Film Industry in the Sixties |publisher=[[Michael Joseph (publisher)|Michael Joseph]] |year=2005 |isbn=0752857061 |location=London |pages=262}}</ref>

[[Leslie Halliwell]] said: "Horrendous attempt to turn two unsuitable actresses into a female Laurel and Hardy; plenty of coarse vigour but no style or sympathy."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Halliwell |first=Leslie |title=Halliwell's Film Guide |publisher=Paladin |year=1989 |isbn=0586088946 |edition=7th |location=London |pages=932}}</ref>

== Accolades ==
The film was nominated for a [[Golden Globe]] (Best English-Language Foreign Film) in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Smashing Time |url=https://goldenglobes.com/film/smashing-time/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |website=Golden Globe Awards}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0062281|Smashing Time}}

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El Salam Maritime Transport

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{{Short description|Egyptian ferry operator on the Red Sea}}
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[[Image:Al Salam Carducci 82.JPG|thumb|240px|right|''Al Salam Carducci 82'' in Suez]]

'''El Salam Maritime Transport''' is an Egyptian [[ferry]] operator that operates a fleet of fifteen vessels on [[Red Sea]] routes between [[port]]s in Egypt, [[Saudi Arabia]] and [[Jordan]]. The company transports over one million passengers a year and is the largest private shipping company in the Middle East.<ref name="Gad-el-Hak2008" />

El Salam gained media attention in 2006 after the {{MV|al-Salam Boccaccio 98}} sank on 2 February 2006 in the Red Sea en route from [[Duba, Saudi Arabia]], to [[Safaga]] in southern Egypt, with the loss of over 1000 lives.<ref name="Gad-el-Hak2008">{{cite book|author=Mohamed Gad-el-Hak|title=Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control, and Mitigation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nfDs5KWqyzcC&pg=PA57|date=23 June 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-47229-6|page=57}}</ref>

This ship, among others in the same class, was supposed to end its career in 2010, but after the ''Boccaccio 98'' disaster all three remaining vessels were sold to an Indian scrapyard (one other had burned out and sank in 2002).

==Routes operated==
* [[Suez]], Egypt – [[Jeddah]], Saudi Arabia
* [[Port Safaga|Safaga]], Egypt – [[Duba, Saudi Arabia|Duba]] and Jeddah, both in Saudi Arabia
* [[Nuweiba]], Egypt – [[Aqaba]], Jordan
* [[Hurghada]], Egypt – [[Duba, Saudi Arabia|Duba]], Saudi Arabia

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060204071058/http://www.elsalammaritime.com/ El Salam Maritime Transport official website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060204054830/http://elsalamgroup.com/ El Salam Group]
* [http://www.imo.org/en/Pages/Default.aspx International Maritime Organization] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413010949/http://www.imo.org/en/Pages/Default.aspx |date=13 April 2020 }}

[[Category:Ferry companies of Egypt]]
[[Category:Transport organisations based in Egypt]]