Announced earlier today on Facebook. Rick Campanelli will be on CHFI with Brooksy from 4-7 starting April 1. Read the full article about the changes on my website

https://nwbroadcasters.com/2024/03/27/chfi-announced-new-show-and-lineup/

paterson1 wrote:

It is worth noting as well that CBS got out of the radio business six years ago in the US, selling their 185 stations to Entercom (now Audacy).  This has not worked out well for Audacy which is now in chapter 11 bankruptcy.  They took on too many stations at once when the radio market was starting to soften, all of this prior to COVID.

Audacy paid $2.4 billion for CBS radio and last month when they filed for bankruptcy they listed $2.66 billion in total debt.  With chapter 11 they will be able to slash $1.6 billion of the debt.  Bell Media, Corus Entertainment, and Rogers Media are all profitable. However both Bell and Rogers have high debt loads from their other divisions. 

Bell selling these 45 so called under performing radio outlets to six different and smaller companies is a much safer bet.  And all of them are familiar running smaller stations which again is a plus.  All six made their companies successful in smaller/medium markets. 

If  Bell decides to sell their larger and healthy medium sized stations in the future, let's hope that Pattison,  Cogeco and a few smaller/regional players buy these stations. 

In time, alll of this could be the best thing to happen with radio in Canada for years. Let those more familiar with broadcasting run these stations, and not a mega conglomerate like BCE, where radio has only been a minor sideline since day one.  


 

I have heard rumblings that bell will be selling more stations. Plus I heard Corus and Stingray will also be selling stations. So I am sure a lot will change in the next year or so

Long time listener first time caller here. With the new stations you are getting I saw last night there is no job cuts coming, which is good. Will there be any format changes there or elsewhere, maybe to streamline formats or brandings you have? Mainly I am looking to see if there will be any more FREQ stations elsewhere. I understand if you cannot answer yet but I am just curious. As a listener that is what I am curious about the most. 
I appreciate you as an owner of a station coming on and discuss things here. I cannot remember a time when a radio station owner actually listened to what people have to say and wanted to address what is being said. 
As for FREQ, I tell everyone I can about it and have even got friends from BC and Alberta tuning in because of the sound and mixshows. I would love hearing this format at more stations. If I recall one of the stations you are buying in Kingston had a format similar to FREQ previously and was a good station. 

Thank you for what you are doing with local radio and keep up the good work

Not sure of all radio jobs lost but it looks like the Toby and Warren show at The Bear Edmonton are gone. Not sure if that was today or recently. Not sure of anyone else.

As much as I use SiriusXM, my plan is coming for renewal and I paid 135.60 for my last full year. They had emailed to let me know that in March it would go to $390 for the year. I called and the best offer they could give me was 197.91 plus taxes and fees. Then they tried to offer me a different plan but I would lose the sports play by play and the Howard stern channels. And it would still be more than my current rate. The new rate would still be about 160 a year. With less channels
So I am pretty much leaving now. 

RadioAaron wrote:

Muffaraw Joe wrote:

What an interesting acquisition

If this one's interesting, the rest of what's going to happen this year will blow your mind.

Agreed. I got an email today from someone I know quite well and the information I got about station sales and some stations maybe shutting down and a bunch of other news is going to be really interesting. And it's not just one company making a lot of moves. Another bigger company is going to be doing a lot too. Canadian radio by December is going to look really interesting.

The Fresh website was updated. New morning show is going to be Mark LeBel and Taylor Tsakoniatis
They are calling it the morning rush

tvguy wrote:

Let’s not forget that closer to home, Bell put up over 50 radio stations for sale.  In the coming weeks, as the applications are filed with the CRTC it will become clearer the extent to which Bell is abandonning its bad investments in radio.  In some markets the land where the transmitters (were) located will fetch far more money than a sale of the assets of the stations.

So I have heard from other sources Bell offered up all stations including ones that they have now shut down. But then I heard the list was cut down to 50 or less. It will be interesting to see what happens because currently on the Pure, Move, Bounce and Virgin branded stations a lot of hosts run shows on multiple stations across those networks. If for example Bell sells off the Manitoba to BC stations (except Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton) would hosts on those stations who originate from Ontario stay on the stations. Or for instance any hosts that originate in Winnipeg or Victoria that originate on a station that is sold what will happen then. For example Johnny Novak does mornings on Virgin Victoria but if that station is sold but not Virgin Edmonton (where he does afternoons now) what happens to his Edmonton show? 
I think there is going to be a lot of changes this year if Bell does sell 50 stations. But it could also be a nice boost for Pattison who currently has zero stations in Ontario or east. 

In the US to get this thread back on track, I don't think Audacy will be forced to sell stations. From what it sounds like is the creditors will take ownership of the company. I think Audacy will sell stations or at the very least take offers. Depending how many creditors there are that may take over the company, maybe it gets split into multiple companies. If that is the case there will be a lot of new changes to on air lineups as many stations across the Audacy family either have no on air staff at certain times of the day or they have one host on many stations. 
I pred

Shorty Wave wrote:

Caught some of Campanelli hosting CHCH’s New Years show, he did well and the band July Talk were great, never really listen to them before, impressive! I commend CHCH for being possibly the only TV station in this area to go live last night, happy new year!

The only criticism of the show was during July Talk. I love them as a band and near the beginning of the performance when it was time for Leah to start her part her mic wasn't working properly. No big deal, she was able to power through and ended up using a different mic. 
Otherwise from what we saw of it, the show was good. Although the countdown was off by a couple minutes. The timer was showing 4 minutes until the new year, and according to my Rogers guide it was 11:59 same with the clock on my phone. 

Dan Sys wrote:

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.

I was actually trying to make a joke because you generally break everything Dan so I was teasing at the fact you posted it on Radiowest so much later. That almost never happens. 
I wasn't trying to offend you. Thats why I said you were unusually late on that one. 

RadioAaron wrote:

By popular demand....

A25-54

Boom.    10.2
CHFI    9.7
KiSS     7.9
Virgin      7.8
Z103   7.7
CHUM    6.9
Q.    6.9
680    6.8
CBC1   6.1
Edge    5.0
Indie    2.8
Classical    2.4
FAN     1.9
1010    1.6
FLOW    1.4
640.   1.4
CBC2   1.2
LITE   1.0
TODAY   0.9
Energy    0.8
Zoomer    0.6
JAZZ     0.6
TSN     0.6
ICI    0.2
Elmt    0.1




 

I look at these numbers and am surprised. Edge is nowhere near as good as it used to and Indie in my opinion is much better. With better on air staff. Boom at the top doesn't surprise me at all but the fact Kiss, Virgin, Z and CHUM are between 3-6 in that order is a surprise. There used to be more of a gap between them. There has always been people talking about a possible flip at one of them, whether it's Kiss or Virgin. Same with the possibility of a flip at edge because Indie was doing much better. But now it seems like indie is the one that could use a change.
But my question is how much longer will Today continue to exist in this current format. I was listening for a while and texting in to be a part of the conversation. Then almost every single time someone would call me back. Ask me questions for a segment that would air at a later time. They encourage conversation but aren't live a lot of the time. So it's a lot of best of and re-rolls of segments. Something needs to change there for sure. Also it would help if the 2 afternoons show hosts were broadcasting in the same city. Or time zone at least.

Hey everyone. Yes I did shut down the site. I had talked to Dan and he was ok with the name. But I shut it down as most people stoped going. Very few posts. Very little interaction.
But I have taken over a website. I am the new webmaster at nwbroadcasters.com
See you there

paterson1 wrote:

So the two stations will be playing separate music since they have two different formats?  Or is JUMP! waving the white flag to HOT 89.9 and moving more in line with CFNY?

I have wondered for years how this station survives as it is, for years the morning show was an American syndicated show, but also hot 89.9 just sounds better, in my opinion. I wouldn't be surprised if this station starts to change format or at least tweak it. Especially with Rogers making changes even though that is more Smiths Falls, but there are some rumors that 105.3 is going to Kiss off and possibly become a different station. Word is Jack will go back to 92.3 after Christmas and Santa radio goes away. But 105.3 is rumored to become a Sonic station so that it would compete against Live 88.5 but maybe with Tucker and Maura "in" Ottawa Jump starts to add more rock or alternative to the playlist and slowly they evolve into something that might compete with a Sonic or even with CHEZ. 

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I look forward to the new site and how it looks. Good luck to the new webmaster over there