This pattern might have hit our region this morning. I was getting 3 TV stations from Pennsylvania including this one, very briefly from Wilkes Barre Did not rescan, they were coming in on frequencies I had previously scanned:


 

Hoping the new repack does not get approved but if it does and OTA hangs on wonder if we might see more stations coming back to VHF.

paterson1 wrote:

mace wrote:

Wow! That is a great deal of employees. Many Canadians think our CBC is bloated. According to Wikipedia, as of April 2025, CBC/Radio Canada had approximately 7710 full time employees.

BBC also has a much bigger budget than CBC/Radio Canada.  Their 5.9 billion British pound revenue (license fee tax, advertising, cable revenue, program sales etc.) is almost $11 billion in Canadian funds.  CBC/RC total revenue including taxes, cable revenue, advertising, program sales etc. is just shy of $2 billion CND.

Their reporting integrity has also gone in the toilet over the last few years. They are in many cases a propoganda outlet. One recent example below about a fake story they ran and then had to retract:


The BBC has no shame. They currently have a main article where they quote an "Iranian" who is supposedly okay with the US/Israel levelling Iran by using a nuclear weapon. Read that again. This is staggeringly false and beyond sicking. Further manufactured consent begins... 

Saul wrote:

Chrisphen wrote:

Prog metal in old folks' homes? Could be an unrealised market. Start with Rush, then early Priest. At this point you can feed more gummies. Then ease into Maiden. If that goes well, they're ready for Tool, Pelican, early Metallica and whatever other bands I'm not recalling at the moment.

Not much profit but certainly something to converse about.

I'll just listen to Jerry wobble on some Old and In the Way...
 

Agreed that's a great choice and here's another one and there's a prog option as well










 

That's a great compilation. One of the CHFI ads even mentions their cable FM position. Was on cable that I  started to listen to CHIC/CFNY back around 1975/76. There was even a station from Scarborough College U of T but it was dull and pedestrian from what I remember.  Why repeat what could be heard on Top 40 or mainstream rock stations ? 

There were a few American stations on cable including WHTT oldies 104 and perhaps WBUF.

Here's two radio ads plus some other content that I recorded that are not in the compilation. I have to go thru the tapes to hopefully find more one day:

Edit- I noticed one of the ads below is in the comp above but the audio is diffrent so I guess it is unique.






 

RadioActive wrote:

I include this real estate story here only because 1 Yonge St. was the former home of the Toronto Star and way up on the 25th floor - with a magnificent view - was the H.Q. and studios of the now defunct CKEY 590. It was my first paying job in radio and it came not only with some great veterans of broadcasting, but one of the best views of the city out of the newsroom window I've ever seen. They even used it in one of their ad campaigns.

It was a great place to work back then. Sad to see it's at the centre of controversy now. 

One Yonge is Toronto’s most famous address. Why residents say developers’ plaza plans for it are underwhelming

I worked in that building for the Toronto star for at least 3 years in the 80's. Not sure if you were there at the same time but I believe the parking in the large parking lot was free. Also the cafeteria was perhaps on the 4th floor and if I recall correctly there was a receptionist station closeby and the receptionist who worked there died in the air India terrorist incident.
 

I check out that site every now and then and remember seeing a Meduci tuner on this old YT clip. The gent is actually repairing an old Realistic AM stereo tuner he got from vwwestlife who some of you may recognize from his YT channel. Anyway starting at  4:25 he references and shows the Meduci and has some good and bad things to say about it:





 

scrand wrote:

I listen to one of the stations listed all the time - WXYG "The Goat" Album Rock....not to be confused with Classic Rock....so not just hits like some stations. Give it a listen

I haved taped them a number of times. They broadcast in AM stereo. Don't think they have been around since 1976 as the article claims. The last two times I went on their web page I noticed that their playlist had unfortunately narrowed. Still a lot wider than the typical classic rock station. I have a few tapes from their heyday.

They were the first station I thought of when I saw the title of the thread.
 

A while back I had posted on another thread that I thought the BBC and western media in general engages in exaggeration and misinformation about Iran. Some of that is brought up in the posts above in this this thread. I mentioned on  the BBC post that I had visited Iran and knew first hand that there was a lot of nonsense to the msg that was being delivered in the west. Some people on the board seemed to think that I was making things up but I can post pictures of the trip if anyone wants. BTW I'm somewhere between agnostic and atheist and don't believe in a theocracy but wanted to point out that the vilification was unjustified and I had my own experience as a guide.

Anyway here is an account of a westerner visiting Iran during this war and his telling of what he saw and experienced on the streets, There is no way anyone in the mainstream media would allow this person on air, the producers would find a way to ignore such and but again thankfully there is new media now and the word does get out:




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RadioActive wrote:

I remember my brother used to have an album by The Electric Prunes. But it didn't contain "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night." Instead it was called "Kol Nidre," the long service performed on Yom Kippur for Jews marking their New Year. 

What a very odd thing for a rock group to record. I have no idea what became of that LP, but it was certainly strange. Here's proof that it once existed.

I Just confirmed on wiki  that the above album was recorded by a totally revamped  version of the group and was influenced by the relative success of their previous Mass in F Minor album. A cut from Mass was included on the Easy Rider soundtrack and that might have been the first Prunes tune I owned. Have since acquired their two hits on various comps.
 

Shorty Wave wrote:

Radio and TV waves apparently bounce around in space for eternity, so if we could figure out a way of tuning into them we wouldn’t need the internet for enjoying vintage transmissions!

You know that I have dreamed that there would be some kind of atmospheric condition one day that would allow us access to those radio waves. Kind of a retro tropo, Remember that Twilight Zone episode where the man was pulling in old radio broadcasts.
 

Saul wrote:

I've heard from a couple sources that there are actually safe ways and places to ascend and descend. I felt it was necessary to insert that caveat in my post because it's an open forum here and it's simply beyond stupid to venture out close to an actual cliff's edge. I've also never tried any of the routes, which involve gradual slopes rather than cliffs or steep slopes.

I was at the bottom of the cliff there last fall with someone from a younger generation than mine who decided without telling me to follow a trail and ended up calling me from the top. He told me the trail he took was a bit steep in places but not dangerous. It was close to dark by the time we met back, up top (I had the car). And the individual doesn't live in Canada or visit very often. So if my knees are willing I'll try to replicate that trek this spring/summer/fall. I don't know the immediate terrain there very well in a detailed kind of way, but I've spent a lifetime hiking and have a very well trained gut understanding when something is potentially unsafe.

Might even take a small portable radio. Having height like that immediately to one side and open space on the other can do wonders fopr signal chasing because the back side gets seriously if not completely attenuated. I have one wooded area near my Kawarthas site that at one cliffside spot always gets Montreal listenable on FM but blocks Barrie/Orillia. (Best tropo catch there is coastal New Brunswick).

Saul, my teenage excursions down the bluffs were generally from the Guildwood Village area and yes we took the generally safer inclines but some were still dangerous and you know what they say about the folly of youth.

My top three most dangerous memories about the bluffs.

1. Riding a moped and falling off near the edge.
2. Walking with my friends in mid frozen winter on the ice at the lake. Was frozen and it was a very cold winter but the ice could have broken and I might not be here to tell the tale today.
3. When B

Here's another clip of the Yellow Balloon. This time on American Bandstand. Watch Dick Clark try to interview the "mysterious" Luke R Yoo ( Don Grady). Also towards the middle of the clip have a look at the top 10 chart that is shown. What a fantastic top 10, don't think there's a clunker on the list. and that can't be said for many top 10 Charts of any era. Your tastes may differ but most of those tunes have endured.



 

RadioActive wrote:

Quite a story behind this one hit wonder, although I never heard that it was banned on certain stations. And is that Mike Post they mention playing guitar the same Mike Post who wrote the theme song to Law & Order and Hill St. Blues? If so, he doesn't put it on his resume! 

I interviewed him many years ago and wish I'd known about this. I would have loved to ask him about it. 

And yes, I had heard about the "My Three Sons" connection. What a weird 'behind-the-hit' story.   

How a 1967 One-Hit Wonder Got Banned From the Radio Without a Real Band Behind the Track

There was eventually an actual group formed under the name Yellow Balloon and Don Grady of My Three Sons fame was in that band. Their album is heralded in Sunshine Pop circles and was re-released by the great Sundazed label. Producer Gary Zekley is also held in high esteem. He also wrote Superman which was the B side to Sugar on Sunday by the Clique. and later covered to acclaim by REM.

I have three of the singles mentioned in the linked article including Yellow Balloon, the b-side of which was Noolab Wolley ( YB backwards) as I guess the band was not in place when the single was released. See pic below. Pretty sure all of the singles are original pressings.

Also YT on the band  on Shebang with Don Grady ( as Luke R Yoo)  in toe along with host Casey Kasem.