RadioQuiz wrote:

Curious. Did you ever find another gig where you were paid for 8 hours but didn't have to work them all?

Where do I apply?

Only place I got paid for 8 hours but didn't have to be in the building for the full 8 hours was at CBC Yellowknife in 1974.  It was a NABET job and they openly violated the NABET contract by having you work 6-7 hours with no breaks, as the only person in the building, and paid you for 8 hours to ensure you didn't complain to the union.

A DXer is reporting hearing traces of the HD encoding on CHLO-530 from his listening post in Montreal.  Can anyone confirm or deny if CHLO has their HD IBOC/hybrid signal going again?

I haven't checked it out, but someone has taken Audacity and cloned it (legally, since Audacity is Open Source), without the alleged spyware portion:  https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity

As you can see, they call it Tenacity.

I was really impressed with the all night show on CKFH, which I could only hear in Vancouver after 3:00 AM Monday mornings, when all the other stations on 1430 were off the air for transmitter maintenance.  Probably 1968-69.

Great resource, but may not be updated much/anymore, as the first entry I looked up was nearly 10 years out of date:  CJCA-930 Edmonton moved their transmitter to a new site in Devon almost 10 years ago.  On the other hand, CFCW moved from 790 to 840 just a few years ago, and that new frequency is shown.

This was the era of Big City Canadian newspapers increasing their circulation numbers by going after "nearby" areas.  Listing local stations in those areas was a big part of it.

I don't have access to the Toronto Star from back then, but the Vancouver Sun produced multiple regional editions for different parts of British Columbia.  Typically, only a few pages differed in one of the "back sections" of the paper, including the radio and TV listings, as well, of course, as the front page Masthead, which already changed for each edition (e.g. FIVE STAR FINAL).

The Star had huge ambitions back then.  The Star Weekly was better known than Macleans in Vancouver when I was very young.  In fact, I didn't initially know it was published by the Toronto Star.  In my Vancouver suburb of East Burnaby, in the early 1960s, there was even a paperboy who sold and delivered the Star Weekly.

At my favourite job, I was 20 and had to be at work at 5:00 a.m. on Saturdays, 6:45 a.m. on Sundays, 4:15 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays, and 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  I didn't get paid for Monday and Tuesday, and left just after I got off the air at 6:00 p.m.

It just didn't make sense to get up at 3:45 a.m. every other morning just because I had to on Saturdays.

RadioActive wrote:

I thought I read they planned to use at least some of the existing CHSC facilities. Shouldn't that have allowed them to get on air faster? Or are they actually starting from scratch?

A fair analogy would be how much longer it takes to re-build a long-abandoned historical building than it would to bulldoze and start over.  Not just from not being maintained, but mainly from having to meet today's building standards.  One big example is asbestos:  if you don't touch a building, you don't have to replace the asbestos.  But many types of changes to an existing building would require that all the asbestos be removed.

A few years ago, CKUA-AM in Edmonton was faced with several million to get their transmitter site up to new Industry Canada standards, so they surrendered the license before the deadline for upgrades, and lived with the loss of coverage in areas not covered by their simulcast FM transmitters.  Since we are talking about the same period of time, I suspect the CHSC transmitter site would not be allowed back on the air with the new Industry Canada rules likely mandatory by now.  Who knows what changes to the studios might have triggered the requirement to meet current building code?
 

There was talk of a new President replacing the Founder, who is unable to continue for much longer due to medical issues.  But the home page of reelradio.com now says: "THIS SITE WILL SHUT DOWN WHEN FUNDS ARE EXHAUSTED. WE CURRENTLY HAVE $6740."

It also notes that both Registrations and Donations are not currently being accepted.
 

Fitz wrote:

Do you mean that people started to record what was on the sit and that Reel Radio's copyright costs went up due to that ?

Not sure what type of copyright licence they have but the Socan Licence that I have for my site is a flat rate fee every year, set up for not for profit web sites/radio stations. The fee does not increase with the number of users

Anyway sad if they shut down.

​I agree with Jody. Real Audio is irritating and outdated but to convert to another system is probably too much for them at this point. What they could have done is start adding new files in another format.

The U.S. system is very different.  reelradio must document every single song that anyone listens to in the course of listening to each aircheck, and the number of times it was "listened to" during a given month.  There are several (three?) music rights associations that must be reported to and paid, on a per performance basis.  I don't know the exact details

By the way, I spoke to SOCAN 15 years ago and they told me that their license only covers listeners in Canada.  Legally, each country where a listener listens from in a given month or year, must have fees paid to their music licensing body.  In practice, it is a liability issue in the sense that you need to be paying in whatever countries have a large number of listeners to your site's music.

I bring this up, because when reelradio was first looking at having to pay fees, the idea of moving the server to a country with no music licensing fees was floated, and shot down after my conversation with SOCAN.

As for RealAudio, that is the real job that lies ahead for anyone considering taking over reelradio.  Go back to the original masters of each aircheck, digitize it all over again, and encode it to whatever current technology is decided upon.  As a rule, no .wav files were kept from the original RealAudio, especially in the early years.

They have been encoding exhibits in mobile-friendly formats for s

Dale Patterson wrote:

I can only think of one other jock who was on the air for 70+ years

CKUA's Old Disk Jockey is still on the air, despite starting his broadcast career as an announcer in 1946 at CFQC Saskatoon, before moving to CKUA in 1949.  His air name is John Worthington.
http://www.ckua.com/programs/old-disc-jockey-the/
 

This station, then known as PJB, used to be 500,000 watts.  Just found a YouTube recording of CKLW from 1982 where PJB is heard in the background.

From Vancouver in the late 1960s, after 1:00 AM Sunday nights when the Alaskan station on 800 signed off, it was CKLW if you pointed the antenna to the East and PJB if you pointed it to the SouthEast.  Cannot remember them being much different in terms of signal strength.

Here is the problem.  If you are not located where most of CKLW's current night pattern sends the signal, then I could see PJB being a major issue, though CJAD, XEROK and other stations are also on 800.
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Red also spent a few years in the U.S. and is still revered as a Portland Radio Legend by many who listened to him (and even watched him) on KGW Radio and TV in the late 1950s.

The beginning of the end came when KJR Seattle hired Red. Before arriving for his first day of work, he was drafted, but still managed some work at KMBY Monterey, California, while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.

When his military stint ended, he returned to CKWX Vancouver.

Asked about his move from CKWX to KGW, Red recently said it was about expanding his horizons to include television more than about the money.

On a personal note, I first heard Red in 1956 on an almost daily basis on the car (convertibles) radios of a couple of kids on 15th Avenue in East Burnaby where I lived.  He was still at CJOR back then.  It was not until 1962 when he moved to CFUN as Program Director and DJ that I began actively listening to Red.

I've actually heard several stations, from time to time, advertise openings on air.  Though never on-air positions.  Sales more often than not.  Usually at smaller stations.

The closest to an ad for an on-air position was CKRA-FM in Edmonton in the 1980s when the Morning Man was enticed to move to the competition.  Listeners were asked to vote for his replacement, among the existing air staff.

When I was doing contract work for AGT, after it was owned by TELUS, the CEO reminded staff that AGT no longer stood for "Alberta Government Telephones", so I think it is fair to say that Bell feels the same way about "Rogers" in the CFRB call letters as George Petty did about the G in AGT.