I've had crushes for:

Lisa Kudrow
Sela Ward
Erin Karpluk
Jessica Holmes
Shelley Long
 

mic'em wrote:

Too bad Cherry is too old for you to say this to his face. 
 

But who says he wouldn't?  You overstate the piddly amount of respect that Don Cherry deserves.  Almost Trumpian in scope.

torontostan wrote:

Ron is probably sick and tired of getting overshadowed by a senile man who had questionable hockey insights in his later years, was openly racist yet is spoken about like he's Terry Fox or something. Just about anyone who knows their place in that kind of position chooses to retire around 65, Don had nothing left to say but kept babbling and soured Ron's remaining years on the way out.... can't wait for the day he croaks and we don't have to hear about him anymore

I personally think that most anyone (not all, but most) that shits on Ron McClean, PROBABLY thinks more like Don Cherry, and so their opinion is questionable anyway.  And Ron was right to look after his own a--, and not let Don Cherry take him up the creek with him.  Distancing himself from Don Cherry should have been seen as smart.

It would likely be on Crave, as you alluded to

I wonder how Stingray Music does here, and if that's any indication of how true RA's link may be.

To me, it seems like an interim step, because if you no longer buy cable/satellite, then you wouldn't access these services.  I find most of my music on YouTube or even on TV shows.  My partner watches "... And Just Like That" a lot (terrible show), and I head a song played by a band named "Tele Novella".  Some great stuff.

He'll get on a forum and disparage WABC and its ownership.  Then he'll shit on you for bringing it up.Of course, I'm just going by last week, you know?
 

paterson1 wrote:

Your points are well taken.  But it does seem odd that many times you seem to make a bigger deal about a lot of Buffalo radio news than Buffalo Radio Discussions.  Their board can go for a week with no new posts or comments. 

There was a time I would have said the same thing about talk radio on AM ... period.  There was an overabundance on the subject here.  However, more music radio subjects have been brought to light, current CanCon regs have been discussed, and more discussion on AI affecting music and radio has surfaced.  I would still say that discussion about ANYTHING related to Western New York has yet to reach 30% of this forum.  Radio Discussions has devoted a major thread to this subject, so I don't really see RA over-blowing the topic.  There are indeed American readers on the forum and they will sample the station.  The forum readership isn't all on this side of the border.

I think though (and you can correct me), that this comes from some sort of life long distaste of radio in Western New York you may have.  Often when RA (or even I) pine for the 70s and 80s Buffalo radio on this forum, you seem to downplay that.  As you've cited in the past, American radio didn't have that affect on you.  Today, I'd agree, but between 1978 and 1987, I'd say 30% of my time was spent listening to stations with names starting with a "dubya".  And between 1983 and 1986, I'll bet that number rose to between 60% to 70%, depending on the year, especially when it came to 80s R&B music.  Buffalo radio really had a lot going on in terms of content and polish back then.

Almost sounds to me like a fusion of BOC's "... Reaper", and "Happy Birthday Kid" from Geoff Hughes.  I'm not able to recognize this track.

Buddy Shula wrote:

Aren’t you the same idiot who trolls the Buffalo boards with incorrect information all the time. I think you mentioned one time that WECK would get no ratings, yet I’ve turned it into a top 8 metro station, beating 50,000 watt FMs in Buffalo.

First off, this is not Talk 1270. It is WUSW 1270 The Patriot “Buffalos Conservative Talk”. There is a huge difference from “Monday morning quarterbacks” like you, and people who actually know how to create and run winning radio stations, like me.

WBEN is already in reaction mode to The Patriot. Let’s talk a year from now and see how wrong you were, again.

He never said you were Talk 1270.  He was comparing you to the previous format.

Thanks for the branding lesson by the way.  It's really cute how you spelled "Buffalo's" (as in possessive) without the bloody comma.  And throwing around the term "idiot", there's real class right there!

Bloomberg 1150 (Biz Radio), and TSN 1150 prior to 2022 (since 2015)

I thought I was the only person that would like to have joked that the calls stood for WRECK, but misspelled .  I felt that way back when WECK reduced the 70s and early 80s spins on the station though.  I suppose the new format on 1270 will "trump" oldies though 

paterson1 wrote:

... This makes me wonder if Zoomer 740 has much of a following there today.  Buffalo seems to like AM radio and there isn't anything that sounds like Zoomer anywhere on the AM dial. ... 

I never listened to much radio from WNY growing up, mostly since not much was available either than Rock 102 which I never considered a real radio station.  They didn't become a real station until they dropped the automation and had live announcers.  Listened to WGR a bit but found their music too adult contemporary for my taste.  CHUM, CFTR, CHAM, and CKOC had much better music on AM IMO.

I do see some technology and vintage tech YouTubers playing airchecks of Zoomer Radio, while they're DX-ing on old radios, so there may be some interest south of the border.  One influencer, VWestlife, is based in Jersey, so there's that.

I'd agree on GR '55, but it did have great energy (more presentation than music).  I still loved WKBW in the late 70s and early 80s.  CJJD, CKOC, CFTR (especially) and CHUM were awesome.  But I think once the CHR formats in the US migrated to FM, a station like WNYS (modern day WHTT), was a great high-energy CHR, which I listened to between 1982 and 1986.
 

darcyh wrote:

Charlene had the hit with this song, but I liked Mary McGregor's version better.
 

I remember that CHSC on 1220 in St Catharines played the version from 1977, without the spoken interlude, even during the song's chart run in 1982.  Thank Gawd for that.  It wasn't until years later that I realized the non-interlude version was several years older, as I thought CHSC might've been serviced with a special disc.

RadioActive wrote:

The odd thing about Syrett is that Carrasco had him on his show talking about his departure from Sauga960 in favour of podcasting. Why he's still on, whether he changed his mind, or if they're simply airing rerolls non-stop is an open question. 

That radio station is a mess and it appears it's getting worse. It was supposed to cover Mississauga. I rarely hear them mention the city the few times I monitor it - and their studios aren't even there, being located on Westmore Drive - in Etobicoke. 

Same with the Region at 105.9.  They're in Scarborough; not York Region.  (I know it's off-topic, but are they still alive?)
 

RadioActive wrote:

Sure we can.  I just have a lower tolerance nowadays for needlessly angry and dumb