Fixing the audio issues is one thing. It looks like they're also having trouble keeping some radio people.
The morning show is still in place, but where is Scott Penfold? (Afternoon drive) 
https://www.1150ckoc.com/category/announcers/

No luck with the search and did not see or remember that it was already posted here before I guess by a different person than the one who sent me the recent email. Not resolved last time and sorry to waste everyone time on this.

Evuguy wrote:

"And WBEN has a new host.  Does anyone know the other hosts or listen to that station?"

Well, I find Tom Bauerle interesting at times, especially when he comments on the effects of his lactose intolerance.  Otherwise, when the Toronto talkers get stuck in a rut on a particular news story, that's usually when I go to WBEN.  Also, WBEN's signal is strong enough in the GTA that most car radios (non-electric) will find it using the seek function.
 

I'm the opposite; I will NOT listen to WBEN unless it's necessary. If I want news, I'll go to 680 NewsRadio or the CBC-maybe even WBFO(even in its weakened state)than I will WBEN.

"And WBEN has a new host.  Does anyone know the other hosts or listen to that station?"

Well, I find Tom Bauerle interesting at times, especially when he comments on the effects of his lactose intolerance.  Otherwise, when the Toronto talkers get stuck in a rut on a particular news story, that's usually when I go to WBEN.  Also, WBEN's signal is strong enough in the GTA that most car radios (non-electric) will find it using the seek function.
 

Also see
https://gta.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=8595

Do a Google search on 'Lostwave CIA' and you may find the info you are looking for.
 

Audio on the web sounds fine, but over the air it's terrible.

My favorite Buffalo stations were the prog rockers. WYSL, WPHD, WBUF, WZIR and WUWU plus WCMF from Rochester. Fantastic loved them all. The early prog CHUM FM is still the best station that I have heard in this area and the early CFNY was also great but from 1971 to 1984 the US stations were a great alternative and button change option.

During my top 40 period I did sometimes listen to WKBW. Also in the late 70's with only AM in the car I would tune into WGR as the oldies on the station were preferable to the AM top 40 at the time. CHUM AM did have somewhat a revival for me when they began to feature acts like XTC and even the Ramones. In the late 80's and 90's I liked listening to WHTT Oldies 104.

Nowadays it's not necessarily signal strength that's the problem with  97 Rock or Classic hits 104, it's the content and same goes for all of the local rock and pop stations in Toronto. Indie 88.1 has potential and I would listen if they went fully triple A like WXRT in Chicago.

paterson1 wrote:

Your points are well taken.  But it does seem odd that many times you seem to make a bigger deal about a lot of Buffalo radio news than Buffalo Radio Discussions.  Their board can go for a week with no new posts or comments. 

There was a time I would have said the same thing about talk radio on AM ... period.  There was an overabundance on the subject here.  However, more music radio subjects have been brought to light, current CanCon regs have been discussed, and more discussion on AI affecting music and radio has surfaced.  I would still say that discussion about ANYTHING related to Western New York has yet to reach 30% of this forum.  Radio Discussions has devoted a major thread to this subject, so I don't really see RA over-blowing the topic.  There are indeed American readers on the forum and they will sample the station.  The forum readership isn't all on this side of the border.

I think though (and you can correct me), that this comes from some sort of life long distaste of radio in Western New York you may have.  Often when RA (or even I) pine for the 70s and 80s Buffalo radio on this forum, you seem to downplay that.  As you've cited in the past, American radio didn't have that affect on you.  Today, I'd agree, but between 1978 and 1987, I'd say 30% of my time was spent listening to stations with names starting with a "dubya".  And between 1983 and 1986, I'll bet that number rose to between 60% to 70%, depending on the year, especially when it came to 80s R&B music.  Buffalo radio really had a lot going on in terms of content and polish back then.

DOPEfm wrote:

turkeytop wrote:

The only two with any merit are Radio I and Radio Western.

Thank you!

I also appreciate Radio Western, go ol' 94.9 CHRW.

Have had a few guest spots djing there in the past.

An alumni to us at DOPEfm is The Word Is Bond Radio with Chase March.

Always solid when I tune in.

Wish they (radio ratings) captured listening properly for all stations in the land, no matter the market or format.

For instance, even an 0.2 for limited signal/audience would be good ratings for CHRW (this is fictitious, but an example of opinion)

Im in Hamilton and Country 104 from that market always blasts in almost like a local.

CHRW has been a good training ground for broadcasters. Blue Jays play-by-play commentator Dan Shulman got his broadcasting start there, when he was a student at UWO in the late 80s.

All radio stations have some kind of show line-up, but you know that. If people weren't interested in the thread they wouldn't click on it. (Unless they did, how would they have known about Shula's comments in the first place?)

We'll continue to give space to changes in Buffalo radio, although it's never going to be the priority here that Toronto and Southern Ontario are. 

Read it if you're interested. If not, you can skip it. Others will be curious. These posts are for them.  

Shorty Wave wrote:

Fitz wrote:

Obviously I thought of Shazam and that was already attempted on  the YT version of Shazam and  gave the same apparently incorrect result as above. The Central Inevitable Agency is probably a phantom non existent song otherwise the gent would not have sent it to me and I reviewed the comments before I sent it here.

Here is a YT comment on the page from 5 months ago:
YouTube has this feature in the search section which helps you find a song you like, pretty much like Shazam but it's the YouTube version. I put this on the YouTube song search thingy and it gave me a result of a song named "Central Inevitable Agency Paradox V2". I don't know if this is the actual song name but it gave me this. There were no videos that had the relation of the result. No re-uploads, no mention of "Central Inevitable Agency Paradox V2" just other random videos. 

 
Sorry for trying to help you Fitz, appreciated the gratitude….

Honestly my comments were not a swipe at you. The song has been posted to YT for 5 years now and the Shazam refs started to appear in the comments on YT about 5 months ago. I should have indicated in my initial post to not rely on Shazam. Sorry about that. I had never heard this song until I recived the email on Sunday but I went through the comments before I posted here.

Don't quite know how one creates a "copyright troll" on Shazam but that is somewhat  disappointing. Also have run into a few instances when Shazam has provided incorrect results which did not result from "copyright trolling."


Being a collector of moldy old air checks I have found many songs that are not on the Shazam or Soundhound data bases. Example - back in 2019 I found a great set of air check reel to reels at a thrift store auction that had a number of songs not found by Shazam including this one. I searched it again today and it's still not on: 

I use it regularly and often but it's not infallible. Also disapoint

Why would anyone in the GTA or most of Southern Ontario care what either of these two stations are doing?? 

Fitz wrote:

Obviously I thought of Shazam and that was already attempted on  the YT version of Shazam and  gave the same apparently incorrect result as above. The Central Inevitable Agency is probably a phantom non existent song otherwise the gent would not have sent it to me and I reviewed the comments before I sent it here.

Here is a YT comment on the page from 5 months ago:
YouTube has this feature in the search section which helps you find a song you like, pretty much like Shazam but it's the YouTube version. I put this on the YouTube song search thingy and it gave me a result of a song named "Central Inevitable Agency Paradox V2". I don't know if this is the actual song name but it gave me this. There were no videos that had the relation of the result. No re-uploads, no mention of "Central Inevitable Agency Paradox V2" just other random videos. 

 
Sorry for trying to help you Fitz, appreciated the gratitude….

newsguy1 wrote:

If you have Roku, you know the Roku channel itself has lots of.vintage TV shows and movies.
Right now there are free movies like Waterworld, Gosford Park and Atomic Blonde.
There are TV shows like McMillan and Wife, Have Gun Will Travel and obscure old ones like M Squad which introduce Lee Marvin.
Anyway a ton of amazing free stuff (with the Roku subscription of course).
 

You don't need a subscription to watch much of their stuff - just a VPN set to the U.S. The Roku Channel website has tons of free shows and movies and you don't even need to sign up to watch any of it. Check it out here.