I just watched the 1980s episode of CNN's new series on sports through the decades. The sports fan in me will likely watch the other episodes, this series looks far less interesting than the previous series produced by Tom Hanks and partners. While the series on music, TV, politics and other topics were interesting largely because there were clips of the songs, programs and events the talking heads were talking about. But not so with this series, it appears. The 1980s show had talking heads and still photos of that decade's major events and trends in the major US sports -- even a minute or two on the Gretzky trade to LA. But there was previous little footage of actual action. Either the producers could not buy most of the rights, or were too cheap to. In any event, a pretty dull hour of TV.

mic'em wrote:

As always, we The North are shut out of hearing any games on radio. The same now goes for the K-W area with the demise of 570 am. I am becoming less and less interested in professional stick and ball sports. The money is just too much for both player compensation and cost to even watch or listen anymore. 

The CRTC only dictates that Sports radio/sports talk radio can't go FM, not the sport itself.
If Rogers wants to put a Saturday night Leaf game on Kitchener's 96.7 FM, there's no law that says they can't...

Lots of CKEY charts (and practically any station you can think of) at ARSA..

http://las-solanas.com/arsa/index.php

I wish I had more from CKEY. Only two charts and one of them was from Doug Thompson. The other was collected by someone in my family and somehow wound up in my possession. There's sadly little left of CKEY and its Top 40 past.

I worked there in the late 70s - my first real paying radio job (if you could call what I was making "paying") - and I remember going looking for anything from those much missed Top 40 days. There was almost nothing and very little sign that they ever played anything but the Laurie Bower Singers.

Lost to history for the most part, which, as CHUM's first real competitor, is a tragedy.

This conversation reminds me of the WKRP drinking contest where the more Johnny Fever drank, the more sober he became. The no nonsense cop who was operating the breathalyser was definitely not pleased.

RadioActive wrote:

The great irony is that the changes they made don't please either side. 

For those opposed to the White House, the recent hiring of the new exec. producer is seen a sop to the President and people on the left won't watch the show. 

Those in favour of the leader have never trusted CBS News and getting them away from the Fox propganda arm is next to impossible, so winning them over is also a difficult task. 

That doesn't leave much reason for those in the middle to tune in. But losing audience when your main man is off does not bode well in either case. 

So I guess it is the mushy middle aka fly over country that tune in nightly to either ABC's WNT or NBC's NN.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

I would call that type of format commercial public radio

94.5 has a commercial license; when The Source debuts, they can air enhanced underwriting announcements. It's the middle ground between the underwriting you hear on NPR or your local college radio station and full-blown ads on commercial radio.

The Weed wrote:

All good points, but, for example, if Sinclair buys more stations, the news, as has happened already, will be right leaning scripted and the same blah, blah on all their stations. Sinclair was also one of the groups that immediately pulled Kimmel when he-who-shall-not-be-named demanded it.

Broadcasting down in the states has gon to crap now that Dump is in power.
They nead a broadcaster or small media owner who's also bean in politics as president down there.
But who?

Ida Spencer wrote:

Skywave wrote:

Ida Spencer wrote:

Actually the 640 site's the one with nine towers. It's also a few k southwest on the escarpment near Smithville.

Sorry, but you're mistaken.The photograph clearly shows eight towers for CFIQ 640, and the exact antenna data from the FCC AM lookup is below:
https://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=792472                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Yes, I am mistaken. The 9 array makes more sense for 590 since it needs to protect 610.
This sent me down a rabbit hole. The-then CFGM had grief from local NIMBYs who didn't want radio towers in their area... some actually claiming it would affect crops! The move was approved in 1986, then was appealed to cabinet, then approved again in 1987. (Archived decision here.) The CRTC pointed out that CKEY and CFTR were already operating from Niagara with little impact.

I also found this interesting map which was part of the CINA/CHAM application:


Apologies for resurrecting this topic from January.

Atleest its a greenhouse and not another condo.
But still, another AM station might be gon and where will the jays go?

RadioActive wrote:

An interesting note on the WNED-FM website. 

"Some listeners may notice occasional reception issues with our BTPM Classical signal. We have identified an issue with our transmitter and are awaiting replacement equipment. In the meantime, we are operating with a temporary solution that keeps us on the air but may result in reduced signal strength or intermittent reception for some listeners."

Will that delay the launch?

An interesting note on the WNED-FM website. 

"Some listeners may notice occasional reception issues with our BTPM Classical signal. We have identified an issue with our transmitter and are awaiting replacement equipment. In the meantime, we are operating with a temporary solution that keeps us on the air but may result in reduced signal strength or intermittent reception for some listeners."

We would have to sea when the source launches thursday.
I hope they give a voice to both the centre left and centre right of the political spectrum now that there not under NPR.
I hope there more like a WGN or like news nation, but on the radio.

You can compound your drinking problem by downing a shot for every PR muffin they have on-air in between commercial breaks.

A new contest that is not good for people who are too heavily into alcohol. 

Randomly turn on CFRB at any time of the day. If you hear a commercial or anything that's not programming, take a drink.

Guaranteed you'll be drunk within the hour. 

I say this because nearly every single time I tune into 1010 - completely at random - they have a spot on or some non-programming feature like a promo, a traffic report or a newscast. I'm talking about one of their actual shows and not the endless clutter that appears to be the station's stock in trade. 

I simply cannot believe the sheer number of times I've come across NT1010 and find them playing a commercial. It happens so often, it's no longer a statistical anomaly in my mind, but a certainty. Have we finally reached the point where there are more ads on the outlet than real shows? 

It's simply amazing how often it happens - in my case a good 85-90% of the time  - and it can no longer be a coincidence. Maybe if they found another way to present it, it would be different. But as it stands now, this is the very definition of a "commercial" radio station!

I think it’s great when this type of thing happens, somewhat of a rare occurrence. His colleagues said some very nice things about him and I think it caught him off guard! Thanks for posting RA.