RadioActive wrote:

It's all about branding - so Virgin instead of CKFM, News Talk 1010 instead of CFRB, Kiss 92.5 ahead of CKIS, and Q107 not CILQ. Only CHUM-FM - which has a large history in the city and has the great advantage of being a friendly pronounceable word - and maybe CHFI, which has been around forever, are among the few exceptions. 

When I think of 1010 I think of CFRB, and when I thnik of 107.1 I think of CILQ. Maybe I'm old.

Just saw an ad for Starlink advertising half price terminals, hard times over there after the CEO's antics....

Thankfully there are local choices, sky choices even lol

If it's just one station then it's likely the MPX vs HD audio feeds are not time synchronized (ie, analogue Tx is not delayed by 30s).

Once your car radio locks onto the FM carrier, it begins decoding analogue, detects the IBOC, lock and begin decoding (some sort of AAC+SBR+PS), finally it should blend between both seamlessly as HD reception comes and goes when there are errors in the bitstream.

Similar idea to satellite radio when demodulating the terrestrial carrier at the same time as the satellite carrier. Both bitstreams are similar, with different error correction (FEC) and coding types. COFDM for terrestrial, and QPSK on satellite. A/B on each for additional error correction capacity, same bitstream on both but different FEC. Most streams are AACplus like HD IBOC.

XM satellite is quite an interesting tech and no wonder why it won over the Sirius horrible sounding custom codec system.

We need more cheap HD capable radios! Anyone have a portable HD radio?

RadioActive wrote:

And not surprisingly, the answer is "no."

CRTC turns down CAB request to start over on radio and audio consultation

Not until more broadcasters take it upon themselves to challenge the rules, or fight in court heh

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

They can still have there stream up, cant they?

Can't see why not, online music licensing is cheap and easy,  and Skychoice still has a MusicZone channel! Too bad they aren't on free to air satellite lol

BDC oh my, it's because bankruptcies are down and the economy doesn't look good. Glad they are spending their hard earned profit on radio ads.

martyb wrote:

Evuguy wrote:

Oh well, can't say we didn't warn them about their choice of frequency. Surprised CBC Transmission took this long to file an interference complaint.

Though their current website posting is written in the same rambling prose as used elsewhere in this thread, I'm left with the impression they just might of had their equipment confiscated.

They are playing a game lol The website randomizes through different songs as well.

Gotta hand it to them though, it lasted a lot longer than I expected! Any word on the street if CBC will be turning on HD Radio?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYkACVDFmeg

While you're out living your life,
I've been spending all my time
Fighting for a place to be heard
On 93.9.

I've been soldering loose connections,
Trying to keep the rig alive,
Boosting power late at night
Just to keep the music high.

Sounds liek they went off the air again sometime today. Loud and clear in in the morning, better than I heared in a while! But static in the late afternoon

The main stream page now redirects to https://musiczonefm.ca/ !!

There's an interesting message there that implies more than just technical difficulties! The direct stream link is the same as the one I was given above, it's still streaming.

Here's to all who've listened to MusicZone, finally got the OK to post this publicly!
https://stream.xsa.ca/
Happy listening mates, have you been gripped by the spirit of radio?

Ale Ont wrote:

In yesterday's list BOOM 99.7 in Ottawa was not there.  So, I phoned yesterday to see if it would be participating.
No one answered my call.  I left a message.  No return phone call.
Corporate incompetence telling me the state of what was once, a communication industry.

Broadcasters, always the best at communication within! The person who would have handled it was probably fired last week right before the genius in a board meeting that came up with this Canadian music saturday idea who didn't have an updated org chart or email list

Saul wrote:

If it can happen to CKTB it can happen to a pirate...

https://gta.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=6353

heh, MusicZone's outage was much shorter in duration and was able to get on the air before the QEW clears out

Heh, just when I found something awesome it's off-air hope it's not the end and just some transmitter melting lol

PwrSurge wrote:

Fitz wrote:

the amazing thing is that they are very public about it, even being carried by a satellite company and carrying the CBC news which I heard a bit of yesterday.

SkyChoice is not a satellite company but rather a ground based provider.  In addition to wireless towers, they also provide Internet over cable, DSL or fibre.  As long as you can get Rogers, Bell or Cogeco at your home, you should have no problem getting service from them.

https://www.skychoice.ca/channeldetails/2425

Looks like they got a logo, does RDS2 have the image!?

Any word about the other staff traffic, engineering, news?

I've been listening on and off for a while, driving on the QEW and around downtown Oakville. Reception is strong and there's a pretty surprising amount of coverage! Anyone able to provide an aircheck or MPX recording? Seems to be music shows scheduled based on various times of the day.

Heard some dead air the other morning instead of Nina's syndicated show lol Been regular music since, I hope they play more Timewarp or some other show instead of the 80s music