Here is a personal favorite. Not well known, but a great alt. country lyric, about a free form DJ who refuses to play the consultant's playlist, and stands up for his beliefs. He also recorded a rock take on it a few years later, but this is the one that moved me: Mark Germino sings about Rex Bob Lowenstein.




 Mark Germino Rex Bob Lowenstein 1 - YouTube

I've been using AccuRadio for half a dozen years now for my roots music fix and soundtrack. Sound quality is good to excellent, Free to stream, minimal if any commercials and a huge amount of tunes...plus great mix and match genre features. Highly recommended and well worth checking out.

 

David Friend, The Canadian Press

A new report on Canada's radio airwaves says songs performed by women have been underplayed on commercial music stations for at least the past decade.The 11-year study released Monday as part of Canadian Music Week crunched data from some of the most popular radio formats and found that songs by women – especially women of colour – were played far less than songs by men.

While those findings won't surprise many in the music industry who've been outspoken for years about the lack of gender representation, the numbers offered a tangible insight into the state of a key component in the success of many performers. “Radio is the only system within the industry that collects and reports their data in such a transparent way," explained musicologist Jada Watson as she presented the study to a Toronto conference room attended primarily by women from the music industry.

"Not only does the tracking of airplay generate industry charts, but because radio is governed by the Broadcasting Act, their data (reports) distribution by time of day, song type, and ... Canadian content regulations."

"Share the Air: A Study of Gender Representation on Canadian Radio (2013-2023)" looked at the top 150 most played radio tracks of each year starting in 2013, plus all tunes played in 2023 on some of the most popular radio formats including Top 40, country and rock music.Watson conducted the study through her SongData research program, in partnership with Ottawa's National Arts Centre and advocacy group Women in Music Canada.

She found that while there was a "bump in programming" for songs by women across all radio formats last year, the study said it's too soon to tell whether that's only a temporary improvement.Women were least represented on rock stations, particularly the harder-edged active rock format where they got just 1.9 per cent of airplay on average in 2023, or one song every four-to-five-hour programming block.

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The station is unidentified in the story, but that comes in the comments. 


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I was game to hear the podcast until I realized it was another lifeless AI voice over. Good for them, meh to the VO.

"Anyone familiar with the author knows it's pronounced "Albere Cam-moo," since he was from France. And he's pretty famous, so there's no reason to get that wrong unless the writer and announcer had no idea who he was."

After a couple of listens, I want to think this voice over is an AI creation...and the name "Cam-ooo" is not in it's audio file. Hence, the dumbing down of communication and information continues in 'Murica.

Turkeytop, it must be Saskatchewan winter skip. Doing over night at 13CJME Regina in winter 75, I got a QSL card from a listener in Finland,even down to describing a break I did on the show he caught DXing. 

One question. What ever happened to the lauded Frasier re-boot ?  


 

Joined and signed in. Best of luck with the new forum,Brian. It will be nice to read some radio news  from elsewhere.

Elwy hosted a serialized a CBC afternoon movie show aimed at a younger audience in the early sixties ,but the name of it escapes me. M-F, he'd intro and briefly background a classic  b/w horror or adventure film from the early thirties. He introduced me to The Claude Raines version of the Invisble Man, Karloff.s Frankenstein, Wolfman,the original The Phantom.of the Opera and others. 
 

Looking at late night, it's hard to believe your grandpa was that hip, kids.... but Saturday Night Live has been on the air for what soon will be 46 seasons with the same format and  original producer.

 

Kellys Music and Records, Vancouver.   

CNN ran some rather unusual ads this past week. One was a primetime evangelical begathon. I could have sworn I was watching Crossroads instead of the election coverage.A lenghty, flat-out begathon for support, funds and " offerings" for the Billy Graham Jr. Ministries. Another was a blatant right wing wacko rant (think: Guns,God,and that horrid Comrade Biden and his henchmen) about saving the GOP's "stolen" election. I understand CNN might need the ad money...but these two spots stuck out like sore thumbs among the medicine and insurance ads.
 

I empathize with that family. We have been in our condo apartment for six years,and the family below us has been in theirs for at least ten. We occasionly hear a faint broadcast feed of some sort, coming thru the wall in our bedroom. The couple downstairs say they have no tv or radio playing,but they have heard it too. We have checked piping,wiring,framing and all..still no answer. Weird.

 

The Burns and Allen shows were a goldmine when I needed vintage material for a nightly big band nostalgia show. Gracie could always be counted on for some very funny (and out there) bits . She would have been a star in any era...With Bea B on the staircase...off the hook!