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SOWNY » Can You “Rent” An FM Frequency? It’s Forcing A Station Sign-Off » November 1, 2020 9:33 pm |
Howard Stern's contract was terminated at WWDC June 29 1982. Had to do with air Florida segment.
SOWNY » GTA's Reception Congestion: 7 FMs Crowded Into One Area Of The Dial » October 28, 2020 12:05 am |
WDCX is a super power Class C at 120 Kw. They are running it last time I chatted with Doug. CKKW west of Kitchener is not heard most days without noise or mixing. In Cambridge severe interference from Buffalo makes them unlistenable. It is the Cambridge-Kitchener-Waterloo market for Numeris now. They are HD and this does hold well when analogue gets noisy also stops radios switching between Andy Kim and The gospel of Luke when atmospheric conditions are ripe.
Another change not mentioned is 99.5 to 106.7 by Paul Larche when he owned country in KW when Simcoe moved off the Frequency.
1490 to 570 CHYM then CKGL when they Flipped Country to AM and Pop to FM.
CKKW was 1320, then 1090 then to the ill fated 99.5
CJTW was 94.3 moved to 93.7 same as WBLK in Buffalo a nightmare on most warm days.
Had CKMB moved to 107.7 CJDV could have increased power with the protection being gone towards Barrie. they tried a few times
CJOY 1490 tried to move to FM at 95.7 unsuccessful as well
CKMS 94.5 to 100.3 to 102.7
CKWR 98.7 to 98.5
K 104 103.9 Woodstock from 102.3 K 104 gives you More!
1510 to 107.3 Country Tillsonburg
1240 CJCS to 107.1
SOWNY » NHL might go with an all Canadian division next season » October 18, 2020 8:38 am |
Helix is from K Town or Berlin.
SOWNY » Outage at CTV Agincourt » October 5, 2020 10:07 pm |
CTV News Channel is back with the National News Lisa Laflamme outside cold open, no lower thirds and rather rough throw to Paul Workmans report. Better to second report with Joy Malbon with the orange story from Washington.
SOWNY » Outage at CTV Agincourt » October 5, 2020 8:21 pm |
Seems the SOWNY board is in some other time zone too. Its 8:21 pm.
SOWNY » Outage at CTV Agincourt » October 5, 2020 8:01 pm |
CP 24 is on CTV News Channel in full screen mode. They did mention a major technical issue at 6:05. They just welcomed CTV viewers across Canada ta 8:01 pm on CTV NC .
SOWNY » CIII Paris Global ch 6 given to CBC French? » September 3, 2020 2:34 pm |
Definitely SRC is on CIII CH 6 PIP. I am way too far to see Toronto where I live. Both SRC and CBC abandoned Kitchner/ Waterloo on OTA years ago.
SOWNY » Hurricane Radio: Has This Ever Happened Here During A Disaster? » August 26, 2020 8:21 pm |
paterson1 wrote:
In times of natural disaster or national emergency, you will be advised to tune into a CBC radio station. Commercial radio stations will advise listeners of this, and they are all free to pick up CBC feeds and become temporary affiliates.
Is there a current policy that points to this?
SOWNY » CKWR Kitchener 7 Year Renewal » August 24, 2020 8:30 am |
CKWR had a Power Increase approved by the CRTC in 2003 to 27 kW H Pol only. It was never built and they lost the approval several years ago. The current issue has them running at reduced power due to a bad feed line.
SOWNY » AWFM » August 14, 2020 10:35 pm |
Good Concept. The stream is distorted on some songs and can use some audio processing work.
SOWNY » Caribbean Canadian radio station up for sale » July 16, 2020 11:46 pm |
CKNX FM -2 applied for a Freq Change to 102.7 to 250 watts was denied in 2008 and in 2016 they asked for the 5 watts at 104.9 be deleted.
I knew the 'Nested" 100 kw FM in Winnipeg was a chance at an overlap service. As Jack H explained to me that wanted FM for Winnipeg but 680 for all of Manitoba.
SOWNY » Why Kitchener’s oldest radio station began in Brantford » July 8, 2020 9:42 pm |
While we are the Tri-Cities CKPC was in Prestion Originally and CFCA was Toronto Star now Virgin in KW aka Kool aka CFCA 105.3 easy listening.
SOWNY » Durham Radio Group » June 5, 2020 11:49 am |
Seems like a awfully long time, listen to KX94 yesterday, sounds rough. Since the coming of Automation I always carried off site backups weekly. Today pretty easy to use the cloud for off site. With Mediatouch as an example a basic On Air machine can be configured and on the air in maybe 1 hour, point to the backup and you are done.
SOWNY » CIDC FM Now in HD » June 1, 2020 9:43 pm |
CKPC had Z 103.5 as HD 2 and 530 as HD 3. Seems odd when they have a second FM in market and AM as well.
SOWNY » Rush Limbaugh To Listeners: Cancer Means I May Not Be Here Much Longer » May 28, 2020 2:56 pm |
Much like his fellow Republican in chief doesn't believe science at all.
SOWNY » City TV To Air Regular Saturday Night Concert Series » May 25, 2020 3:26 pm |
Stereovision. Video on TV and Audio on Toronto's Ultimate Rock Chum FM.
SOWNY » Kelowna's Soft 103.9 Closing This Friday » April 2, 2020 8:34 pm |
RadioAaron wrote:
Boomers aren't in radio ad buys. They should be, but that's another topic.
I like the community station idea above.
National ad buys are going to be down 85-90% in April...the big guys aren't going to be buying anything this year.
Source on National Ad Buys being down 85 to 90% in April?
SOWNY » I heard MacArthur Park by Donna Summer on Jazz FM tonight and.... » April 1, 2020 8:15 am |
Ring of Fire after Wings at Morty's or a Harmony Slider
SOWNY » Sports radio and COVID-19 » March 12, 2020 10:56 pm |
Lots of old syndicated sports show. Real Fishing radio with Bob Izumi, Raceline radio,. Replay old Olympic Hockey series. The Canada Russia series.
SOWNY » Coronavirus Affecting TV Shows & Pro Sports » March 12, 2020 10:53 pm |
grilled.cheese wrote:
I hope radio doesn't get postponed. We need guidance in these dark days and only radio can save us.
We could bring back Candlelight and Wine every evening to relax! Listen to some soft soothing sounds!
SOWNY » What happened to Broadcast Dialogue Weekly Briefing? » March 7, 2020 3:34 pm |
I got mine as well. It is for current Industry Professionals.
SOWNY » How The End Of The U.S. Super Bowl Feed Is Changing Ads In Canada » February 3, 2020 12:27 am |
Nice tie in. Might be dancing across Fox and Friends in the morning claiming the stain of impeachment can wait too.
SOWNY » How The End Of The U.S. Super Bowl Feed Is Changing Ads In Canada » February 2, 2020 9:57 pm |
Clear across Canada on Shawdirect. They do not have to simulsub and I am my own BDU.
SOWNY » How The End Of The U.S. Super Bowl Feed Is Changing Ads In Canada » February 1, 2020 1:17 am |
Shawdirect has been in the clear with US feed always. Let's see if it remains this way this year.
SOWNY » The Evanovs’ Latest Plan: Switch Pride FM To 103.5 & CIDC To 103.7 » February 1, 2020 1:10 am |
RadioAaron wrote:
The tying in of HD into this application was really more of a cover to say they would keep Proud on the air than a real step into that arena; a political move they hoped would help pass it.
They do have Z on 92.1 HD, and they could do 88.5 too, I agree, but it would probably make little to no difference in Z's future.
As for 103.9, I wouldn't be shocked if they just shut it off. A little conspiracy minded, but I never thought it was anything but a placeholder to help Z move into the city following a regulation change or a clever application.
They could a Hybrid. Call it Dynamic with Hot AC and Country. It worked for a week at one time and was unique under the archaic rules in the 90's.
SOWNY » Grammy Awards » January 27, 2020 12:55 am |
I saw the CBC ads as well. Only thing I can think is CBC is towed something from the Rogers Hockey package and this spot exposes music lovrs to CBC APPs.
SOWNY » Why The Trump Impeachment Trial Isn't On Buffalo OTA Stations » January 24, 2020 5:15 pm |
CPAC has C-SPAN2 coverage of the impeachment trial.
SOWNY » Pickering Emergency Alert » January 12, 2020 8:46 am |
Alert hit my phone at 7:24. CP 24 on the story at 7:30 and 680 News at 7:31 (streaming delay). Local media in Oshawa rolling Funkytown and Crook & Chase countdown. Emergency Management Ontario site slow to load (minutes) and no information. Oshawa Breaking News paper has nothing.
Neat screenshot from Kevin Frankish
SOWNY » Supreme Court Rules No More U.S. Super Bowl Spots For Cdns. On Cable » December 19, 2019 7:38 pm |
I have always watched the American feed on Shawdirect. In the clear never had an issue. Also a lot less compression on this feed too.
SOWNY » Alert Ready to send test emergency alerts on November 27 » November 28, 2019 12:31 am |
My station worked just fine. The location for the alert system audio insert point should be just before it reaches the STL link, after all delays for profanity and such. With the system and the audio quality is pristine. AES In/Out, did the same at another station and third one is analog bell lines just before the circuit termination QUK1A coils. Intelligibility was fine on Several station I dialled around. CBC All nets English and French, Corus, Bell. I didn't have a chance to hear anything on the other groups.
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