Could somebody in the know clue me in. If Evanov, and Z103.5 in particular is such a bad place to work and employees are underpaid, why have all the Z103.5 on air staff been there so long? I think Sandra is the newest, but Tony Monaco and Matt Wreggitt have been there for years (since the 1990s I think) and Jimmy T, who is also a long timer, has been there twice.  I know radio is fragile at the moment and there are not many opportunities for on-air people, but it has certainly not always been like that and if a place is really that bad to work at, why have they stayed?

I first heard Dick Biondi on WKBW Buffalo in 1959 or 1960 while visiting my grandmother who lived in Orono (east of Oshawa). He was something else. I never could get KB where I lived at the time, but I could get WLS and heard him again when he was there (9-midnight). Art Roberts, who replaced him, was really tame in comparison. Later on Biondi showed up at WCFL doing the 4-7 PM (Chicago time) show, It came in clear despite being right next door to CFRB on the AM dial. We were about 60 miles west of Toronto. I guess all that makes me old.

This is a couple of days late, but January 31st marked the 20th anniversary of 91.5 The Beat. Originally an R&B leaning Top 40 station, it morphed into a mainstream CHR a few years later and, after being taken over by Corus who put Scot Turner in as PD, for quite a while was the #2 or #3 station in the K-W Cambridge market (Chym was always 1st). Until 2016 The Beat was the only CHR in the market, but early in 2016 CFCA switched to a CHR format, now as 105.3 Virgin Radio, which split the CHR audience. Despite CFCA having the much better signal and the benefit of non-stop promotion on CTV Kitchener, The Beat was able to maintain a slim lead in audience share. Radio ratings are no longer available to the general public, so I don't know what the rankings have been the past few years. However, it is by far the better CHR station with great on air people. Admittedly I do listen around, but it is my go to CHR station. I have been a listener from the beginning - actually before that, as I listened during the testing period before they went on the air officially. 

Jamar has been off this week. Peter Kash usually fills in when Jamar is away but this week it was Adam Wylde - good listening with Adam and his mother Marilyn Denis working together. 

CTV Kitchener announced the change during their 6PM newscast. Said the local 5PM news would continue as a half hour program. I wonder how long before Sandie Rinaldo retires. She is in her early mid 70s. 

I was watching that when the earthquake happened.

I must be weird because I still listen to and enjoy (for the most part) today's hit music. I will admit my favourite period of music is 1956 - 1965, but there are many current hit songs that I really like and my main choice for radio listening is current hit radio. Musically, the Top 40 / CHR format has had not so good periods over the years, but currently it is really good. Could use some real rock tracks, though. My biggest complaint about the format as it is today is keeping some songs in current or high rotation for 12 - 18 months. I also listen to alternative rock and am seriously unhappy that the music I grew up with is too old for the "oldies format". 

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This is quite the few weeks for Wylde and his family - his mother, Marilyn Denis, will also be leaving her longtime CTV talk show on June 9th - a week after her son's final program. (She will continue her duties doing mornings on CHUM-FM.) 

The departure of Wylde ends a very rare event on Canadian radio. I can't think of another situation where a son was competing against his own mother for listeners on a major market morning shift in the same city.

And for the same company.

I did the survey also - except the one I did was from 91.5 The Beat Kitchener - also a Corus station.

I have been a part of this group since back when Craig Smith was moderator. I have never been in radio or any form of broadcasting but I have had an almost lifelong interest in radio and in particular the CHR/Top 40 format staring in my teens. I have known people who were in radio. One of my closest friends back in the 60s was in radio. I am not bitter. I am disillusioned by the current state of radio and in particular the fact that ownership of most stations is held by only three large companies and the results of that, but it remains an important part of my life. 

It was covered on CBC's The National this evening including excerpts from her video. Included in the piece was her replacement being Omar Sachedina.

Almost all of them. The same ones are repeated over and over on any rock station I can listen too.

=12px"Unless it's the best kept secret, there aren't any radio stations available on Rogers Ignite (and I've looked more than once). There are some music stations programmed by, inciden. tally, Stingray."

We have a grandfathered Rogers cable plan which does have some radio stations in the "900" section. It would probably not be what would be available in Toronto. A lot of the stations are Rogers including Jack from Vancouver, but many others, including all of our local stations. I have looked at other plans to reduce the cost, because Rogers is very pricey and going up this month, but the radio stations are not available. I don't use it a lot, but there have been times when I have used it. In the "700" section are the Stingray stations. The one I select most is Juke Box Oldies (50s and 60s music)

They do have news weekday mornings on the hour - 103 second newsbreak done by Stacey Englehart. And they do identify themselves as an Orangeville radio station during their hourly station identification. But their focus is on the GTA. And Tony Monaco is back on their website. Pina is not.

=12px"This morning in my radio surfing I noted that two Virgin stations which I am able to listen to (CKFM 99.9 and CFCA 105.3) were also using the same playlist, including oldies. A check of some other Virgin stations online verified that others are also using the same playlist."

I guess the above statement is confusing in light of my prior comment on the Bounce stations.
To clarify- the Virgin stations are all CHR/Top 40 and the two Virgin CHR stations I can get on my radio were both playing the same Top 40 hits-both current hits and past hits-in the same order at approximately the same time. In fact it was hearing "Dilema" (not a current hit) on Virgin 99.9 and Virgin 105.3 at almost the same time that caught my attention so I switched between them to discover that they were both using the same playlist. This was during the morning shows which, except for Kitchener, are all local. Virgin K-W and Virgin London have the same morning show out of London, but which includes Kitchener personality Laura Geddes.