I did this once while on a plane from Toronto to Acapulco in 1986.

As you mentioned, the stations came and went very quickly. It was interesting to hear the announcer's voices and they transitioned from what I would consider accent-free to very thick southern ones, and then to Spanish as we passed over Texas and into Mexico.

Hansa wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

Hansa wrote:

Honestly, more people are going to think he's the eldest son from the Brady Bunch than recognize him from the radio.

Well, I guess that's still a form of name recognition! Even if it's the wrong name!

He'd better hope the Liberals don't run a candidate named Keith Partridge. 
 

 

Or Johnny Bravo - then people would get really confused. "Is he Greg or is he Johnny? Which one are we getting?"
 

Small town store perhaps, but we have two in Kitchener (population > 275 000)

Aytononline wrote:

If The Bay was a computer I would restart and update.

As for Giant Tiger. I go to this store a few times a week. For me it's like a small Wal-Mart but you can park close to the front door and you don't need to go for a very long walk just to buy some milk. This is a small town store where rent is cheaper. I really don't think this type store would work in downtown Toronto.

LEDs themselves don't emit RF, but the electronics that drive them can. If not properly shielded, interference can result.

turkeytop wrote:

These warm, summer evenings I always stay outside on the patio until after dark. I sit at the patio table under the patio umbrella with my radio.

The umbrella has solar powered LED lights running along each of the ribs. These mid-summer nights, the lights always turn on about 9:15 PM. The very instant they switch on, it somehow attenuates the signal to my radio. A weak station gets weaker and sometimes gets lost altogether.

Anyone have a theory as to how that happens?

I never thought I'd hear a 50+ year old Yes track used in a movie trailer.

RadioActive wrote:

There was a movie about this:

"The Duke"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11204094/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520duk

Spotted a "CKTB" plate in Kitchener today, number was 840, not 610.

Tangential to this thread, back around 1986-87, the PD (Eric Samuels) for HTZ-FM in St. Catharines lived in the same townhouse/condo complex as my family. His white Mazda RX7 had the vanity plate "HTZ <crown symbol> FM". 

I wondered (as a dumb teenager) if he had a collection of such plates from all the stations he worked at.

I realize this thread is abot TV, but I found that being up on the escarpment, Fonthill area, 103.7 from Erie would often come in clearly. 

I know that BrockU's campus radio has that frequency, but I'm guessing it's either not too strong a signal, or is not directed that way.

Dave The OTA guy wrote:

WBBZ is hit and miss for me. I don't know if it's their signal, me being close to the escarpment or a combination of both. When WBXZ came on the air I was able to get them. After the ATSC 3.0 switch where some area stations switched or swapped frequencies I lost them. It did get me a rock solid signal for WPXJ where I never got it before.

Back in the analog days, I'd get Rochester quite often on clear days and nights. The escarpment is likely the reason I can't get Erie here in St. Catharines too.

"like kicking a puppy" is a good analogy here. His vocals never appealed to me, but a lot of people found something there.

I suppose this question could be asked of many Canadian artists, but how big would they have become here without Cancon regulations? 

RadioActive wrote:

OK, I also have a confession to make. And it's like kicking a puppy. But I never liked Downie's voice and didn't think he was a very good singer. So you're not alone. 

I know this is pedantic, but when reporting on an accident or other traffic infraction, the statement "Travelling at a high rate of speed" is meaningless and is very very grating.

Properly expressed, it's "rate of change of" something. 

Rate of change of position is speed and rate of change of speed is acceleration. 

Everytime I hear this on air, I hear a chorus of my university physics professors immediately correcting this.

It was on by 5 AM.

paterson1 wrote:

I don't know when it came on but CBC radio is back on the air in K/W. 

RadioActive wrote:

 For all of its imaging as the gentle place where Mickey Mouse hangs out at the Magic Kingdom, they are as greedy and ruthless a media company as I've ever seen.)

And so good at marketing that our very own RCMP once enlisted their services for protecting the RCMP-brand.
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/from-1995-when-disney-moved-to-market-the-mounties-1.4724477

Landmark Cinemas brought in the same fee last year, so they may be getting the same attention soon.

It brings to mind the "New Kids on the Rock" prank by Scruff Connors at HTZ-FM from the early 1990s:
https://nauticazinger.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/top-5-scruff-connors-moments/

My recollection from listening at the time is that he never said "New Kids on the Block", but "New Kids on the Rock", a reference to the large rock etched with the station's logo on the lawn in front of the station.

That, coupled with the fact the NKOTB was no where near HTZ's playlist should have been a clue that something funny was going on (funny strange or funny haha depending on your point of view).


 

I suggest "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake.

And speaking of Greg Lake, "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" by the TransSiberian Orchestra (mentioned above, and is a banger of a Christmas track) always bring to mind "I bet this is what it would sound like if Emerson, Lake, and Palmer did Christmas music."

Radio Bob wrote:

How about some that we like?
Mary, Did You Know? - Pentatonix or Clay Aiken
Do You See What I See? - Whitney Houston (a lot of dead people still making money on this)