RadioActive wrote:

Saul wrote:

RadioQuiz wrote:

Here's the play -

Rent out blocks of time to guys from the SOWNY board to recreate 1050 Chum or their favourite time period of AM radio.

Profit.

Sorry, radio friends, but I'd need acid to get that feeling back.
 

Not necessarily! There's an online radio station called WIWS that tries to recreate the old sound of AM radio on the net. The gimmick? They deliberately try to sound like an AM station, with sometimes scratchy and staticky "reception," old commercials and records that are anything but from CDs or .mp3 files. 

See if this takes you back, at least a bit. (The drugs are not supplied...)

WIWS Radio

WIWS FAQ

Or you can listen to the real thing here.

 

RadioActive wrote:

I have to admit I'm a bit curious about this. The show must have an east coast feed, which means it's done out of Toronto at 4:30 for the Maritimes, where it's an hour later.

If it's shown across the country, do they have to do an updated version for the west coast stations? Given the ongoing fragile state of the world, a lot can change in the three hours between 5:30 PM Eastern and 5:30 PM Pacific. 

Do they do a separate feed for them or do viewers there see three-hour old news that could conceivably be dated by then?

Monday's and Tuesday's shows can be see at link below (click on CTV News at 5:30  on left hand side):

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video#1.6630417
 

Disappointed to lose the jocks on Soul Town, though Smokey Robinson is a pretty good replacement.

Nobody, but nobody, could talk up a song like King George Michael of WFIL and WABC fame.

Check out his intro of "Saturday In the Park" at the 14:14 mark. Pure genius.

http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/wabc-michael-jul19-77-s.mp3

Nicely done. Outstanding.

BN's cable news channel, from 2004. Did many a cable package back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzIZ89hh6RU&t=220s

I finally heard the afternoon jock, Peet Dictor (sp?), today around 5:45. Couldn't hear him very well though the static, but there was definitely a voice there.

Too bad this station isn't on FM. I like the eclectic music mix.

Well, I got my first car in 1971, and the AM pre-sets would likely have been:

1010 CFRB
1050 CHUM
1150 CKOC
1280 CHAM
1430 CKFH

I got FM in my car the following year (I had to pay extra for it as they weren't standard issue yet).

99.9 CKFM
102.5 WBEN-FM
103.3 WPHD
104.5 CHUM-FM
(can't remember what the fifth one would have been)

Nowadays I listen almost exclusively to SiriusXM - 50s Gold, 60s Gold, 70s on 7, Soul Town, PGA Tour Radio





 

Wasn't there a limit of $5,000 for Canadian radio prizes at one time? This would have been back in the '70s. Does anyone know?

Well, CHUM-FM eventually did overtake CHUM but this wasn't until the '80s by which time CHUM-FM had long abandoned progressive rock. 

Lots of tunes on that 1968 chart could be described as "heavy", including "Sunshine of Your Love", "Street Fighting Man", "Pictures of Matchstick Men", "Hush", "Back On The Road Again", "Time Has Come Again", "Revolution" to name a few.

I loved CHUM-FM back in the progressive rock days and in fact paid extra to get an FM radio installed in my car in the early '70s to hear it and the many other FMs like CKFM, CHFI, WGRQ, WPHD and WBEN-FM. Those were great days for radio both on the AM and FM side.

In Phase wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

Those veterans who think there's any future potential in AM are blinded by their own nostalgia.

The people who could finance the ideas to revive it have the good sense not to.

It's over.

I couldn't agree more.

I visit this board because of my love for radio and TV.  They were a medium that touched everyone.

I believe there were two "glory years" in the business.  The first was the very early years when the wonders of radio and TV were first introduced to the public.  The second (where most of us participated) was the 50's through the 90's.  Those were great years and I am thankful to have been a part of it.

But that was then.

Technology has moved on.  The audience has moved on.  The business has moved on.

The very fact that we can use a personal computer, tablet or cell phone to exchange these messages, anywhere in the world, is proof.

Nostalgia is comforting, but one must move on.
 

Amen to that. For those who think AM has a future, I have a bridge you might be interested in.
 

Interesting lists. But I'm surprised "Gaslight" by the Ugly Ducklings and "Canada" by the Sugar Shoppe and/or the Young Canada Singers, didn't make the 1967 list, and I don't see "I Would Be The One" by Kensington Market on the '68 list. And forget when it was recorded, "American Woman" was a 1970 hit, not 1969.

The late Larry Green on JAZZ FM 91 from August 10, 2002 (scoped):

http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/cjrt-green-aug10-02.mp3

DOPEfm wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

It's great that someone is making an effort to program the all-night show with a human (ok, a sock, but a sock with a live human behind it.) Why igmore 25 per cent of the broadcast day?

As a current overnight radio DJ, I agree 100%. I do get calls at night when I supply the request line number.

I worked 25 of my 35 years at CP-BN on midnights and I loved it (and also got night differential). You can get your work done without management literally breathing down your neck. No traffic driving to work either.
 

RadioActive wrote:

I just got back from a quick outing and saw a CKFH license plate in the parking lot. I can only hope it's their second car, because everyone else's is number one!

My plate is CKFH accompanied by a Blue Jay logo. Of course 'FH carried the Jays games in the '70s (and before that the Expos).