And on every statutory holiday, the national financial TV network ROBTV, does a day of re-runs. That I don't mind because ROBTV is the pinnacle of financial television journalism, and some of these re-runs are absolutely first class.

Take, for instance, the Replay of the Jim O'Connell interview with Barrick Gold's founder and Chairman 78-year old Peter Munk. As I see it, there is no way that CNBC or Bloomberg TV has done anything as good in the past year. But you can make up your own mind on that.

What disappoints me greatly is that today ROBTV is re-running all the best of their work, while their staff is off enjoying the start to summer; but, they are not making the day's TV available on Replay. Replay on the Web will not return until Tuesday.

What a shame. The management of ROBTV ought to recognize that via Replay they are serving to properly educate and inform traders in every country of the world. ROBTV is a Canadian jewel.

For the past hour or two, the Showcase of past interviews by excellent journalist Howard Green covered a lengthy session with former judge James Farley (the Canadian CCAA bankruptcy judge) and Stelco's former CEO Courtney Pratt for example. The back and forth of these discussions made for excellent TV.

Readers often ask me how I rate the individual ROBTV "personalities" and that's unfair because, by definition, we are dealing with personalities.

The ROBTV staff bios show who these people are and the Replays show their journalism craft in action. It's enough for me to point that out, and to simply opine that I find on balance these people do an outstanding job.

As I say, each of these personalities will appeal to a different segment of the audience. I happen to like Howard Green, Jacquie McNish, Amanda Lang, and Linda Nazareth because I think they are the most professional in their interviews and discussions, which is my interest in watching; but really, they are all professional.

For me to say that people like Eric Reguly, Paul Waldie, Danielle Bochove or Jim O'Connell, ought to be second tier in anybody's list would be a personal embarrassment. That's how good at their jobs all of these people are.

I just wish there was a manager there who had made the decision to showcase to the world via Replay today the best work of all of these people.