Nor a fan of the Boss radio concept. Much preferred the longer charts and playlists. Had a cursory look at the charts and was glad to find two singles on the chart that were not played in Toronto but were minor hits in the US.

Lyme and Cybelle- Follow Me  Lyme was Warren Zevon. A great slice of folk-rock
The Deep Six - Rising Sun  Another nice folk rock tune. The group appeared on American Bandstand and Where the Action Is.
Got to know both of these song from a Rhino Folk-Rock Nuggets comp that I bought in the mid 80's.

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mace wrote:

Hey Fitz: What question did you have to answer correctly to win the 97ROCK Professor P t-shirt. Very cool shirt. Hopefully it still fits.

The T-Shirt still fits. Afraid I don't remember the question. I went back to check my records and by the time I won that on May 10/2000 I had stopped listing the question which I did for  number of years.. Below is the entry for the win:

Edit: Just notticed on the sheet that I had won a CBL T-shirt and baseball cap and both may be long gone.


 

I have won quite a few radio items over the years and still have some. The one T Shirt I wish I still had was from the early CFNY with the logo "The Only One."

Here some T Shirts I still have:

Buzzy Krumhunger wrote:

Canada’s election to defeat Trump was contested a week ago and yet some continue the campaign.

Well the campaign in Australia to defeat the orange one was only a day ago and it was a labor landslide moreover the campaign worldwide is an ongoing concern. Who can afford to sit back ?




 

Radiowiz wrote:

This isn't a Trump thing at all. This has been a Republican thing since Mitt Romney ran against Obama and lost.
Mitt openly admitted the first order of business would be to terminate PBS funding if he were to win the election...

Yes the republicans have been after it just as Conservatives have been after CBC but Don pulled the trigger and to him neutral/objective means something to go after as they are covering what is actually happening and not kissing at his feet like Trump state Television FOX and others of their ilk.
 

Just saw this link at the Steve Hoffman Music Forum. A large archive of radio, TV and music magazines. A rabbit hole for sure Was a big fan of music magazines and I love looking at music charts. Cashbox and Record World were not widely available in Canada but they are here in addition to Billboard. That's just a start for me and there is so much more. They don't have issues of Rolling Stone, Creem, Crawdaddy, Fusion etc but I already have most of those. They do have Discoveries and Goldmine though.

WORLD RADIO HISTORY

Here is one that may interest some on the board:
Canadian Broadcaster

Dicky Doo wrote:

Fitz wrote:

One last  swipe at this for me XTC Generals and Majors

 

A final swing at this for me, as well:

It's Only Make Believe" by the late, great Harold Jenkins


D.D.
 

Well there is that definitely with politicians and even 60's counter culture posers with love beads and flowers but it was mostly fun and there there were many true believers in the cause and maybe not make belief.

Learned something new from the above post.  Conway Twitty's real name.





 

One last  swipe at this for me XTC Generals and Majors. They had some excellent 45's, some with picture sleeves. Also loved their Kinks-like social commentary songs like Respectable Street and Making Plans for Nigel.



 

RadioActive wrote:

Here's a very obscure one. It was performed at the original Woodstock in 1969, featuring Jeffrey Shurtleff and Joan Baez. "Drug Store Truck Driving Man" is dedicated to Ronald Reagan (which they pronounce as Ronald Ray Guns.) 

 

I recently posted the original version of this song by the Byrds in the songs about the radio thread,  The song is about the hostility that red neck Nashville DJ Ralph Emery had towards the Byrds when they appeared on his radio show and to fans of 70's free form radio the Byrds version is well known,

newsguy1 wrote:

For What It's Worth (There's something happening here) Buffalo Springfield.
American Woman The Guess Who
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye  The Band
 

You mean kiss him Goodbye by the studio group Steam and later Bananarama.

Re right wing politics in music I have read that Morrisey of the Smiths supports an extreme anti immigrant stance. We all know about Ted Nugent. Since Covid Van Morrison has expressed some surprising views.

There was a right wing response to Eve of Destruction called The Dawn of Correction by the Spokesmen.

I don't believe Dave Cousins and the Strawbs were right wingers but when Hudson/Ford were with them they released the anti union Part Of The Union. A song that almost grazed the Top 40. Ray Davies is no right winger but the Village Green Preservation Society strikes me as somewhat luddite. I love the wordplay of the song though.

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Easily Amused wrote:

What's worse than overplayed classic rock? Overplayed classic rock Canadian content!

There's a certain Niagara Peninsula FM station that gets by with Trooper and Gino Vannelli albums interspersed with overplayed US clunkers. Little Stevie Winwood was cutting his teeth with Traffic and Blind Faith long before the drivel of overplayed solo work. Fleetwood Mac was far superior as a blues group before the saccharine dreck of 'Rumours' and later.

And I am only one mug of coffee into the morning...😁

Mr Amussed don't forget that Little Stevie was really little when he sang lead for the Spencer Davis Group.

As far as Fleetwood Mac I prefer the pre Buckingham/Nicks eras but Lindsay Buckingham is a talent. My favorite era for the group is the post blues one where Danny Kirwan came into his own and they added Bob Welch. The Peter Green led blues period did have some highlights such as Oh Well, Black Magic Woman and Albatross but there's some good tunes from the Buckingham Nicks era as well, but back to Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch:










 

I had time to go to the Gamut web site and their AM HD is still alive but in addition to that there was only a mention of three different FM HD sub channel feeds on their sister stations. Could not find a ref to a repeater but it may still exist. Wide playlist indeed everything from the Doors to the Associations Pandora's Golden Heebie Geebies. Their stream is unfortunately geo blocked.

I did find some info about them on the AM stereo web site as well as some audio/video samples. Here's some excerpts and clips recorded off a entry level COBY HD radio. We get to hear what music sounds like on AM HD.

WSHE(AM) "THE GAMUT" FREDERICK, MARYLAND IS U.S.A's FIRST MEDIUM WAVE ALL-DIGITAL HD RADIO STATIONOn July 16, 2018, station WSHE(AM), [formerly WWCD] in Frederick, Maryland USA, "The Gamut" made history to become the first AM medium wave broadcast station in the country to transmit a stereo audio music format, testing the HD Radio all-digital MA3 mode full-time, under an experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).   WSHE(AM) is operating at 4,300-watts (daytime, non-directional pattern); and at 430-watts (night, directional) using the AM "all-digital MA3 xPeri service mode" and boasting a musical playlist of more than 20,000 songs.   At the time of this video, WSHE had also operated 160-watt horizontal polarization monaural analog translator FM station, W232DG, simulcasting the 820kHz AM digital signal, at 94.3MHz, with RBDS scrolling text program information.

amd speaking of engeeneers:
Dave Kolesar[color=#000000], Chief Engineer and Program Director for WSHE, says, "The bit rate for MA3 is about 40kBps, and we've got about 4kBps set aside for album artwork and station logo.   So what you're hearing is about 36 kBps.   In the fringe areas the radio only picks up the core signal and the bit rate reduces to 20kBps parametric stereo.   I'm always listening critically and learning.   The station sounds better than it did six

paterson1 wrote:

From 2017...https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/bell-media-radios-newstalk-1010-and-tsn-1050-now-available-in-crystal-clear-hd/

Those two AM stations started on FM HD in 2017 but there were other FM stations already on HD before then and I suspect that the AM HD signal  on 530 was authorized before they went on air with it several years ago.
 

RadioActive wrote:

The question comes after I read this article in Radio World, in which an exec. from the National Association of Broadcasters in the U.S. notes only 20% of American stations have gone the HD Radio route - something he highly recommends. 

But it's this paragraph at the end that caught my eye:

"HD Radio is also truly a North American standard now with the recent authorization of FM-band HD Radio in Canada (with AM currently under consideration) and with the continued rollout of HD Radio in Mexico. It’s fair to say that as the number of HD Radio broadcasters in the U.S. increases, listeners will benefit, and the radio broadcasting industry will benefit as well."

Is that true? I thought CHLO at 530 in Brampton was putting out some kind of digital AM signal. What is the status of this on the other band here? 

I think his information is outdated. He says "the recent authorization of FM-band HD" but it was authorized more than a decade ago.