Earlier this year, I received notification from Bell that their copper network would no longer work in my area as of May 31, and that I'd have to switch to fibre (which I did). I wouldn't be surprised if their call centre people have been told that this is the only answer they're supposed to give to anyone with a problem who's still on the copper network.

RadioActive wrote:

I know CHUM had its own record label at one point. Was it called Hutchum? (They were always making anagrams of the word "CHUM," which is where the "Much" in MuchMusic came from. But I'm not 100% sure that was the name of the label.)

It was called "much", and it was shown on the record labels in the same style that "chum" was shown on the CHUM Chart.
https://www.45cat.com/label/much
 

Yes, my recollection is that it was when the general minimum was raised to 35%, that the CRTC made provision for stations broadcasting mostly pre-1981 music to apply for a minimum of 30% instead.  

Although I'm normally not one to defend the CRTC when it comes to Cancon, I can understand them stating that Canadian songs must be broadcast in their entirety. It would be because of radio stations editing Canadian songs to remove verses and choruses in the 1970s. On CHUM, I think that such versions were only played on weekends between 6 am and 9 am, when they'd stack them to the point that they probably got in around 30 each hour. That allowed them to play more 1950s and 1960s non-Cancon hits during the rest of the day on their "Million Dollar Weekends".
As for the pre-1981 reference, I think that it reflects the shifting of the oldies era over time. On the Oldies Music Bulletin Board that preceded the one I administer now, I think I recall seeing the moderator (the late Chicago area broadcaster Ron Smith) say that he considered the era to go from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s -- but he allowed messages about music from the 1950s to the 1970s in general. I think that it also makes sense to have it go up to 1980 here to allow stations to have much more in the way of Cancon hits to choose from. 

Yes, I used to think that it was strange that the NFL had so many of its games on Sundays until I found out about that act. Here's what Wikipedia has about this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_regular_season:
Also in 1961, the U.S. Congress passed the Sports Broadcasting Act in response to a court decision which ruled that the NFL's method of negotiating television broadcasting rights violated antitrust laws. The law allows the league to sell the rights to all regular season and postseason games to the networks, but prohibits the league from directly competing with high school and college football games. Since high school and college teams typically play games on Friday and Saturday, respectively, the NFL cannot hold games on those days until those seasons generally end in mid-December.

I use Clear This Page myself, thanks to finding out about it here, but unfortunately their version of newspaper items doesn't include info about the writer. So I think it's worth noting that this opinion piece was actually written by Star columnist Andrew Phillips. At https://www.thestar.com/authors.phillips_andrew.html, the Star states that he was once the editor of their editorial page, but that he is now a staff columnist for their Opinion page. I think that's an important distinction, in that he may now be expressing opinions there that could be different from the editorial position of the Star itself.

She'll be on Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? tonight on CNN at 10pm.
https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2023/04/21/whos-talking-to-chris-wallace-returns-for-season-three-on-hbo-max-and-cnn-on-friday-april-28/

That show was part of The Who's first North American tour, and it was set up when they were just having their first North American top 40 hit with "Happy Jack". So it definitely was a case of Herman's Hermits being the bigger act at the time, but yes, it certainly is very odd to see this in hindsight.

What I found odd about this article was the references to 50 years, when as you say it's been more than that -- the current lineup having been together since 1966 and releasing their first single in 1967, making it either 56 or 57 years in the business. I did a search and found a 2019 article referencing them being together for 50 years at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/the-stampeders-hit-the-road-jack-to-mark-50-years-of-rock-and-roll-1.5153101, and also one from 2022 at https://themusicexpress.ca/stampeders-continue-to-roll/ that also references their touring being disrupted for two years by the pandemic. So it would seem that they've been doing a 50th anniversary tour for the last several years. This also led me to look at the tour page on their site at https://thestampeders.com/tour, which shows that they toured in Ontario from Mar. 24 to May 1 last year and then moved on to playing consecutive dates in other parts of the country. So this year their focus, at least for the time being, is on the Prairie Provinces instead.

From https://www.fybush.com/site-20230317/:


“Through this door…”

Bell’s FM stations occupy one floor above, with CHUM-FM (104.5) taking pride of place in the corner studio with a million-dollar Toronto streetscape view. There’s at least one remnant of 1331 Yonge here: the sign on the studio door reading “Through this door passes the finest air staff in the world” was moved over here along with CHUM in 2009.

(CHUM’s AM side operates from the Agincourt studios these days, since it’s TSN Radio 1050 and integrated into the TSN TV operation out there.)

I watched that show every day myself. Although I could tell that it wasn't of great quality even at the age of 10, tv reception at my house wasn't good before cable because of us being near the Gatineau hydro corridor -- and so CFTO was the only channel that came in clearly for us. But I liked both Nyland and Weston, and wasn't surprised to find out later that they were both talented actors trapped in a bad show. And yes, her husband was indeed AM740's Frank Proctor.

A few years ago I got curious about where this current Guess Who group was playing -- and not playing. Not only do they mostly play smaller towns, but as I had suspected they hardly ever play any Canadian dates. I just had a quick look through their list of upcoming and past shows at https://www.theguesswho.com/on-tour/, and I only saw one Canadian location (Sherbrooke). That speaks volumes about their lack of legitimacy.

Another feature that's missing is the Preview option. Because I sometimes want to use that (and more occasionally the YouTube option), I've gotten in the habit of always clicking on "Post reply". 

Joel Whitburn's The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits shows an "[ I ]" for records that he classifies as instrumentals. It has one for The Hustle and Rock & Roll Part 2, but not for Pump Up The Volume or Paranoimia. I don't know how he would have classified the other two songs since they didn't make the top 40, but I always find it interesting to see what he indicates for songs like that. Most notable for me is that Silver Convention's Fly Robin Fly is classified as instrumental, but Get Up And Boogie isn't ... I realize that the singing in Fly Robin Fly is more limited, but I still don't think of it as being an instrumental.

Jody Thornton wrote:

Lorne wrote:

Jody Thornton wrote:

I must come clean.  I actually liked the Morning After (and even worse, the theme from "Angie") by Ms McGovern.  Something about that early 70s keyboard halfway through the first verse (the one that reminds me of the Partridge Family Theme) 

I remember hearing Different Worlds, the theme from Angie, on one station here ... I'm thinking it was CKFM, but it could have been CHFI. It did give her a minor comeback hit in 1979, making it to #18 on Billboard's Hot 100 and #1 AC.
 

I only heard it on CHML in Hamilton.  It was the late summer of 1979, and we were living in Selkirk.  Mom was driving us to school in a new 1980 Citation.

Just looked up her discography on Wikipedia to see if had chart positions for Canada ... they show that it was #1 AC here as well, but only #48 pop. That certainly fits with both of us only hearing it on one station.