brian451 wrote:

I hate to say it but I broke the story on my website nwbroadcasters.com at 11:30 pm last night. Dan was unusually late on that one. 

I don't really care "who breaks what" Brian. This is not a competition.

Guess I should have said "listener participation" commercial Talk radio doesn't belong on FM. Big difference between that and a News-Talk format. FM Talk might be working in parts of Quebec, but I really can't see it being successful in any other major Canadian market anytime in the near future.

Mike wrote:

"Don’t know about now but back in the olden days: call letters, frequency and city of license, within 10-minutes of straight up, either side, hourly, ‘live’ or recorded and you were legally covered.
That could be embellished, if you wanted to hit a post or the vocal"


Hasn't changed Mike. Legal ID's are still required at or near the top of the hour (except for CBC stations). However the city of license requirement seems to have morphed into the "city served" (ie-CKNW 980 is licensed to New Westminster, but only mentions Vancouver in their legal ID).

Andy: I have HD2 as Portuguese, HD3 as Spanish, & HD4 as a simulcast of Red FM 93.1 (CKYE) Vancouver. Of course chances are that they have since dumped the HD4 simulcast now that CIRV itself has been branded as Red FM.

Seems odd to me that the CIAO calls are currently on the ISEDC's "List of Available Call Signs for Broadcast Stations in Canada" and that CHLO is no longer listed. Based on that observation It appears as if the calls at 530 AM have been legally changed, but perhaps someone forgot to tell the staff. The other possibility is that maybe ISEDC has their wires crossed with this whole situation.

CIRV 88.9, CIUT 89.5, and CFXJ 93.5 have been granted HD channels as well. Anyone know what the plans are for these new HD stations?

The FM antenna was substandard on my C Crane. It snapped off after only a few months of normal use. My letters and messages of complaint about the matter were ignored by the staff at C Crane. In comparison the antenna on my trusty old GE Superadio II is still holding out after a good 30 years of normal use.

Radioactive said:
"Isn’t there any federal law that requires these stations to publicly identify themselves at least once in 24 hours? If not, when and why did that change?"

It hasn;t changed, but usually ISEDC will look the other way when it comes to legal ID's on TV stations (or on CBC radio for that matter). Much more strict for private radio with a legal ID required once an hour, but ISEDC will just give violators a slap on the wrist as opposed to south of the border where the FCC routinely issues fines to legal ID offenders.

CKWX 1130 Vancouver was Top 40 from 1958 to 1962.