mace wrote:

After listening to the Todd Storz documentary, I wonder if Allan Waters looked into WHB and WQAM before making his final decision on what to do with CHUM's format. Despite stiff competition from FM stations in the mid 1970's, WHB continued with its top 40 format for an amazing 31 years. [1954-85] I am sure if Top 40 had been permitted on FM in Canada, CHUM, CKOC and CKLW would have all moved the format to FM very early 1980's.

He did listen to WQAM on a trip to Florida, according to "The CHUM Story" book.
 

Thanks for the suggestions everybody.

When it comes to musical knowledge, this place is second to none.

On election night, I usually move around and sample the various channels. So I'll probably do that.

Hansa wrote:

newsguy1 wrote:

I knew a woman who was an editor with a news service and she admitted to doing the one thing you never do in the news biz.
Never write anything on a computer screen that you do not intend to send out.
This woman, let's call her Jane, was training a new editor on operating the main desk.
She wanted to be funny (god knows why) so she wrote a bulletin saying a plane had hit the CN Tower.
She told the trainee this is how you format a bulletin, then she gestured at the send button and said this is your send command, and somehow she didn't realize she actually pressed the button and sent the bulletin out.
She told me she tried desperately to kill the bulletin, but it still went out.
She was hauled up to a management disciplinary meeting and the only reason she was spared was because her union went to bat for her because she had a spotless record and had never made any significant mistakes, ever.
Interestingly Jane was one of the employees who hated the union and didn't want to be a member.
Without the union she would have been fired on the spot.

 

Did her view on the union change after that?

(In my experience it's often those who are the most anti-union who end up getting in trouble and turning to the union for help)

No. But she left the company a few years later.
 

I've watched every episode. Not bad. Looking forward to more of "Paradise." The pilot episode was excellent.

For what it's worth, my father Ross Patterson was born in Wingham. He showed me the house he lived in once.

Sirius-XM has a number of channels dedicated mostly to one artist, including Elvis, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Kelly Clarkson, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Grateful Dead, Phish, the Dave Matthews Band, Tom Petty, Kenny Chesney. They also had a limited edition Beach Boys channel, as I recall.

I suggested an all-Elton channel to them. They said they liked the idea, but nothing happened.

Can those who want to listen to AM radio not pick it up on their cell phones, thus negating the need to have an actual AM radio on their dashboard.

---. I don't need FM for music, especially when the playlist is shallower than a Turtle pool.

Amen to that.
 

She was also on CJCL in the '80s.

RadioAaron wrote:

tdotwriter wrote:

Radiowiz wrote:

Yes, if you mean anything intended to protect AM radio at a time when the rest of the world was not. 
ie 49% non hits on FM, etc...

To my understanding, there were also "specialty" music and even spoken-word programming quotas. Supposedly, from what I believe I've read elsewhere here in years past, Q107 at one point in the '80s would broadcast one (or maybe more) episodes of Chickenman; a radio series popular in the U.S that had been originally created in the 1960s that parodied comic book superheroes during the morning drive and a public affairs talk show in the early afternoon before the evening drive. That's just one example.

Correct.

PDs had to time to the minute how much spoken word they had. Simple enough? Nope; not all spoken word was created equal. You had "surveillance," which today is basically traffic and weather. You also had to distinguish between "foreground" and "background" programming. Can surveillance be foreground? Nobody knows! Minutes of news was yet another sub-category of spoken word.

With music, they created arbitrary genres and imposed conditions around percentages of each that were played, Want to alter your format? You're going to have to go to a hearing and get approval for that. I know an MD who had to spend a day arguing with the CRTC about which Eric Clapton songs were or weren't "blues." Also, how many different songs do you play each week? Oh, they're going to tell you.


 

Norman B. (FM 108 PD) once told me that the station had to have a 60-40 pop-rock ratio. The problem was, the definition of what was pop and what was rock was always changing at the whim of the CRTC. Does anyone remember pop-rock radios? I've never heard of it anywhere else.
 

Here's a newscast Tayler Parnaby did on CHUM from July 16, 1868:

https://rockradioscrapbook.ca/chum-parnaby-jul16-68.mp3

newsguy1 wrote:

I knew a woman who was an editor with a news service and she admitted to doing the one thing you never do in the news biz.
Never write anything on a computer screen that you do not intend to send out.
This woman, let's call her Jane, was training a new editor on operating the main desk.
She wanted to be funny (god knows why) so she wrote a bulletin saying a plane had hit the CN Tower.
She told the trainee this is how you format a bulletin, then she gestured at the send button and said this is your send command, and somehow she didn't realize she actually pressed the button and sent the bulletin out.
She told me she tried desperately to kill the bulletin, but it still went out.
She was hauled up to a management disciplinary meeting and the only reason she was spared was because her union went to bat for her because she had a spotless record and had never made any significant mistakes, ever.
Interestingly Jane was one of the employees who hated the union and didn't want to be a member.
Without the union she would have been fired on the spot.

 

I remember that. But the story I heard was that she sent out a fake story that Kirby Puckett had been traded to the Blue Jays for the CN Tower.
 

I still say Paul Henderson should be in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He scored the winning goal in all of the last three games of the Summit Series. He scored 236 goals in the NHL and another 140 in the WHA for a total of 376. He has been inducted (twice) into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame. Received the Order of Canada in 2013.

I've only heard WMCA on airchecks (plus the B. Mitchel Reed re-creation on Cruisin' 1963). I too prefer it to WABC.