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RadioAaron · SOWNY

Link: Gen Z viewers are much more likely to use subtitles, with 70% of respondents saying they use subtitles frequently

RadioAaron · SOWNY

That launch was FANTASTIC. Johnny Cash's ALT covers bridging the formats, custom liners from Eminem and Blink 182, the secondary slogan "Get Back with your X". A+, especially with the recent trend of launches just being the new log kicking in at midnight.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

mace wrote:
What is the difference between the free and premium version? I only use it when I occasionally miss a Corrie episode.

No commercials. And access to News Network too, I think

RadioAaron · SOWNY

For sure it's because the numbers are abysmal - which is not a knock; it's a perfectly good service, I just couldn't imagine paying for the premium version.

CBC likes to say things like Gem aren't taxpayer funded and that its only revenue is self-generated, but that ignores that it's full of content originally produced for CBC TV. Not to mention their ability to promote it on CBC TV and Radio.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

haydenmatthews14 wrote:
RadioAaron wrote:
I bought a subscription. I just need to know how the experience is.

It only has US stations, and the iHeart and Audacy stations are geo-blocked. Will report back.

The US iHeart stations are not geo-blocked. I can listen to Channel 955 Detroit, Kiss 96.5 Cleveland, Star 104 (103.7) Erie PA and other US iHeart stations no problem. I am not using a VPN.

They were *on this particular app* five months ago when I posted that.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

I dumped the E-reader. Yeah, it was convenient, but there are just too many screens.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Some compelling audio from WCBS covering the Challenger explosion. I highly recommend this guy's YouTube channel for classic airchecks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0G5OBDRRbA

RadioAaron · SOWNY

brian451 wrote:
RadioAaron wrote:
paterson1 wrote:
This will be interesting if and when it happens. Although the world, and radio have changed a lot since 89X first went on the air in the spring of 1991. As brian451 mentions Windsor/Detroit has lots of country music radio on both sides of the border so no one will miss one less. Detroit radio sites are saying the change could be either August 28 or 29th. This potential change has a lot of interest in radio circles in Detroit and already some speculation if Alt 98.7 WDZH might eventually drift back to Breeze. The Breeze format was still new in Detroit when WDZH jumped to alternative the minute that CIMX moved to Pure Country.
A lot of this depends on whether Bell plans to rate and sell the station in Detroit. The job ads make it looks like they're only going to hire two announcers; one for each drive shift.

My guess is the local sales team has told management that clients want 89X back, and it would be a far easier sell than Country.

That's really the only scenario that would motivate Bell to dump out of one of their money-saving national brands. They're not going to invest in re-entering the Detroit market.
I had heard that the replacement host on CJAY and The Bear was going to a station in Ontario also. So my guess is whoever is hired for that is going to be on 89x also. Similar to how Ash was on HTZ as well as CJAY and the Bear

Did you actually hear that or just guess the most obvious possible thing?

RadioAaron · SOWNY

paterson1 wrote:
This will be interesting if and when it happens. Although the world, and radio have changed a lot since 89X first went on the air in the spring of 1991. As brian451 mentions Windsor/Detroit has lots of country music radio on both sides of the border so no one will miss one less. Detroit radio sites are saying the change could be either August 28 or 29th. This potential change has a lot of interest in radio circles in Detroit and already some speculation if Alt 98.7 WDZH might eventually drift back to Breeze. The Breeze format was still new in Detroit when WDZH jumped to alternative the minute that CIMX moved to Pure Country.

A lot of this depends on whether Bell plans to rate and sell the station in Detroit. The job ads make it looks like they're only going to hire two announcers; one for each drive shift.

My guess is the local sales team has told management that clients want 89X back, and it would be a far easier sell than Country.

That's really the only scenario that would motivate Bell to dump out of one of their money-saving national brands. They're not going to invest in re-entering the Detroit market.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

According to my social media feed, there will be a few compromised morning snows tomorrow.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

cash wrote:
Baseball is more regional now. National rights don't really matter.

Absolutely.

Home-team fans now have access to every game on the local/regional network. Fans of out-of-market teams will subscribe to Extra Innings. National broadcasts are kinda pointless (outside of the World Series, obviously)

RadioAaron · SOWNY

I listened to the 87.75 station in Chicago on 87.7 and you’d never know it was slightly off.

I do wonder if some of these Frankenstein-fame fudge it and are actually on 87.7 proper.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

torontostan wrote:
I'm sure they could hire a local student and they'd have it figured out in a few days. Wordpress sites are very simple.... there's no excuse for it taking this long

SoCast (Locally: Stingray, Corus, Indie, Evanov, Flow) can get you up and running in DAYS.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

ckg927 wrote:
Honestly, if that prediction by RadioInsight comes to pass, my question is: What the HELL did Bell gain by flipping CIMX to country? NOTHING. They were competing with Windsor's Country(on two frequencies)and with at least 2 country stations in Detroit.

Detroit Bobby Bones clearance and a significant reduction in expenses.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Will be interesting if it happens.

Bell only has 3 music stations that aren't in one of their big national brands, and they're heritage rock stations in Edmonton, Calgary, and Montreal that don't make sense to flip. So reverting a station and adding a 4th exception would be unexpected.

I believe one of (if not the only) use of the current Country station is to get Detroit market clearance for the Bobby Bones show.

Bell currently has jobs posted for the station for mornings and afternoons, both of which just refer to the station by its call-letters.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

RadioActive wrote:
In my case, I never wanted to do anything else.

What's your story?

That’s always my answer too.

Similarly, my first job was at my favourite station as a kid…sort of. While the frequency and call-letters were the same, the former Top 40 was now all-sports. Still, the thrill of being behind the board of that station never faded, even if it was babysitting ESPN radio at 3am

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Ah,

Here you go:

42 BIG WRECK That Song f/Thornley
50 NORTHERN PIKES She Ain't Pretty
53 NAZARETH This Flight Tonight
58 NEIL YOUNG Rockin' In The Free World
66 BIG WRECK The Oaf
71 RUSH Tom Sawyer
75 TOM COCHRANE Life Is A Highway
76 PAT BENATAR Hit Me With Your Best Shot
80 HEART Crazy On You
85 BIG SUGAR Diggin' A Hole
86 BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
87 PAYOLAS Eyes Of A Stranger
90 TOM COCHRANE AND RED RIDER Big League
92 RUSH Limelight
93 SAGA On The Loose
94 TROOPER We're Here For A Good Time
95 KIM MITCHELL Go For Soda
96 BRYAN ADAMS Run To You
99 TREWS Not Ready To Go
105 TROOPER Raise A Little Hell
106 KINGS This Beat Goes On
108 LOVERBOY Working For The Weekend
113 BRYAN ADAMS Summer Of '69
116 RUSH Closer To The Heart
117 NICKELBACK How You Remind Me
119 RUSH The Spirit Of Radio
121 LOVERBOY Lovin' Every Minute Of It
122 TRIUMPH Lay It On The Line
123 COLIN JAMES Voodoo Thing
127 LOVERBOY The Kid Is Hot Tonite
129 LOVERBOY Turn Me Loose
131 HEART Magic Man
132 SAM ROBERTS Brother Down
133 PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS I'm An Adult Now (1988)
134 TRIUMPH Somebody's Out There
135 THE TRAGICALLY HIP Ahead By A Century
136 APRIL WINE Oowatanite
139 RED RIDER Lunatic Fringe
142 KIM MITCHELL Lager & Ale
148 APRIL WINE Say Hello
149 EDDIE VEDDER Hard Sun
150 SAM ROBERTS Where Have All The Good...
152 APRIL WINE Roller
153 THE TRAGICALLY HIP New Orleans Is Sinking
154 APRIL WINE Sign Of The Gypsy Queen
155 THE TRAGICALLY HIP Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)
157 TROOPER The Boys In The Bright White..
158 THE TRAGICALLY HIP Blow At High Dough
159 STEPPENWOLF Born To Be Wild
160 ALDO NOVA Fantasy
161 TESLA Signs
164 HEADPINS Don't It Make Ya Feel
166 TREWS Tired Of Waiting
171 HONEYMOON SUITE New Girl Now
172 COLIN JAMES Just Came Back
175 KIM MITCHELL Rock N Roll Duty
176 BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE Takin' Care Of Business
177 STEPPENWOLF Magic Carpet Ride
178 APRIL WINE I Like To Rock
181 BRYAN ADAMS Cuts Like A Knife
185 LENNY KRAVITZ American Woman
1

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RadioAaron · SOWNY

Easily Amused wrote:
RadioAaron wrote:
Here's the Canadian version. Not as much 90s as I would have thought, but Q107 has modernized more aggressively than some others.

1

BOSTON...

etc. etc.
Now I am genuinely confused. How does that list not have any Trooper, Gino Vannelli, and all the other clunkers that constitute what I thought as Cancon? 🤔

The Cancon kicks in after #40. (First one is #42 - Big Wreck/That song) Makes sense as top-testing songs will get a higher rotation.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Here's the Canadian version. Not as much 90s as I would have thought, but Q107 has modernized more aggressively than some others.

1

BOSTON

More Than A Feeling

2

BON JOVI

Livin' On A Prayer

3

JOAN JETT/BLACKHEARTS

I Love Rock 'N Roll

4

JOURNEY

Don't Stop Believin'

5

BON JOVI

You Give Love A Bad Name

6

DEF LEPPARD

Pour Some Sugar On Me

7

AC/DC

You Shook Me All Night Long

8

OZZY OSBOURNE

Crazy Train

9

GUNS N' ROSES

Sweet Child O' Mine

10

BILLY IDOL

White Wedding

11

PINK FLOYD

Another Brick In The...(Pt II)

12

AEROSMITH

Sweet Emotion

13

BLACK SABBATH

Paranoid

14

LYNYRD SKYNYRD

Sweet Home Alabama

15

WHITESNAKE

Here I Go Again

16

FLEETWOOD MAC

Go Your Own Way

17

GUNS N' ROSES

Welcome To The Jungle

18

VAN HALEN

Jump

19

AC/DC

Back In Black

20

DEF LEPPARD

Animal

21

TOM PETTY

Free Fallin'

22

VAN HALEN

Panama

23

QUEEN

Another One Bites The Dust

24

AC/DC

Thunderstruck

25

SCORPIONS

Rock You Like A Hurricane

26

PHIL COLLINS

In The Air Tonight

27

KANSAS

Carry On Wayward Son

28

AC/DC

Highway To Hell

29

LED ZEPPELIN

Black Dog

30

TWISTED SISTER

We're Not Gonna Take It

31

EAGLES

Take It Easy

32

BLACK CROWES

Hard To Handle

33

SCORPIONS

No One Like You

34

QUIET RIOT

Cum On Feel The Noize

35

METALLICA

Enter Sandman

36

FLEETWOOD MAC

The Chain

37

STEVE EARLE

Copperhead Road

38

TOM PETTY

I Won't Back Down

39

DEF LEPPARD

Photograph

40

OUTFIELD

Your Love

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RadioAaron · SOWNY

Easily Amused wrote:
RadioActive wrote:
Easily Amused wrote:
All the ads are giving my phone conniptions. 🤨
*
I would like to see the Cancon version of this. 😁
Try this version. You can't play the videos, but at least the ads aren't there.
Thank you.
Reads list.
Meh.
Still needs a Cancon version. 😁

Cancon aside, Canada would look quite a bit different. That list mentions that only one 90s song made the cut, while Q107, for example is pretty much 50% 90s.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Because they're in SO FAR over their heads.

Even on that temporary site, the social links are useless: The FB and IG accounts can't be seen in Canada, and the Twitter/X account hasn't been updated in 3 years.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Binson Echorec wrote:
Cassettes had the luxury of portability in an age where portability was rare - but still limited to 120 minutes of music. The 10,000 or so songs stored on the microSD card in my phone matches the portability and far outstrips the capacity of a cassette.

Anybody unironically buying a cassette in 2025 is doing so to be trendy. No different than those ridiculously over-sized sippy-cup Stanley mugs.

Yes, I imagine most of them go un-played.

Have heard that there is a small subset though, who like the forced-linear nature of them. A little forced attention in an ADD world.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Saul wrote:
RadioAaron wrote:
Saul wrote:
Didn't 93.5 CFXJ once apply for some rebroadcasters on the same channel? I vaguely recall something... If so, was there ever an outcome?
They were denied.
Thanks RadioAaron and Evuguy.
The repeater for KX 96 has always struck me as textbook. Years of DXing and I've never been able to 'hear' them apart. I've only logged both in Toronto because the Toronto repeater came along later and I'm presuming it's what I hear downtown. I believe an engineer named Gus (lost on a last name) helped architect that beauty!

It's my wife's favourite station so I have some familiarity with it. It seems to work quite well. There's a patch wihere the DVP meets for 401 where they seem to get in each other's way, but other than that it's seamless. At least that's for the analog signal.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Evuguy wrote:
- CFXJ-FM 93.5 has it's auxillary transmitter on in parallel with the main on FCP. I was trying to listen to it last night in the car while driving in North York and the audio was unlistenable. The two signals are not synchronous and are out by close to 10 seconds. It's still like this as of 9:30am Sunday. Their AX looks to be located at 2 St Clair W. Will be interesting to see how long this goes on for.

Oof.

Back to normal now.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Saul wrote:
Didn't 93.5 CFXJ once apply for some rebroadcasters on the same channel? I vaguely recall something... If so, was there ever an outcome?

They were denied.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

brian451 wrote:
RadioAaron wrote:
Campaign Desk wrote:
and iHeart's New Country 93.5. A
Uh-huh.
It isn't iHeart that operates New Country it's Stingray

If we're going to get fussy, iHeart doesn't operate anything in Canada.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Either way, any numbers generated by people under 35, especially men, are completely meaningless. The meters may be assigned to them, but they're either not carried around by them or reflecting their tastes.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

Campaign Desk wrote:
and iHeart's New Country 93.5. A

Uh-huh.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

640's morning had weeks and weeks of huge ratings in the unreliable M18-34 demographic. Outliers happen. It has since regressed to the mean.

RadioAaron · SOWNY

For context: AMA (average minute audience) is the main currency used by agencies to determine ad buys. For the most part, look at the A25-54 column to rank each station's success.