RadioActive wrote:

103.9 seems the most likely, simply because there was already a GTA station there, although very few could get it. I'm just not sure how likely the CRTC would be to want to hand out a licence to someone who occupied the airwaves illegally. 

The CRTC would have to issue a call for applications, I'd imagine there'd be stiff competition for an FM license in the GTA, and I can't imagine a pop format like this getting anywhere regulatorily.

For years there's been a mostly hard-rock pirate, and I don't think I've heard definitive talk or IDs, on 93.9 to the north. It's seemed strongest of all places near the south side of Lake Simcoe. That puzzled me enough considering it was, like the one in the Oakville area, first adjacent to CBL 94.1. But it remained on even after the country station signed on in Georgina on 93.7, and hearing them both on at the same time seems absurd. The station is very intermittent. The modulation is sometimes awful, but the signal is potent enough that I've heard this one well to the south onto the 404 and well past Argyle east of Beaverton. I've even heard it a few times, rather weak, at my DX site between Fenelon Falls and Kinmount. Once at my site I thought I did hear someone say something about Lake Simcoe on 93.9, but I wasn't recording at that particular moment, and 93.9 was cluttered with a couple stations. The first time I heard this pirate, CFGI 92.3 Georgina Island was briefly off the air, and I thought there'd been some weird switcheroo. But CFGI was there along with the pirate on my next trip through the area. Still, my location guess has always been Georgina Island, or fairly close by. Just a hunch.

Interesting that the Oakville pirate has also picked 93.9.
 

I think, if there's no comercials, the format would be Community radio if it were licenced.

Speaking of HD, I was out driving around 3 PM and noticed CFRB's HD signal off of 99.9 was gone. Not sure why, for how long or whether it's back yet. 

Fitz wrote:

The 93.9 frequency is one of the more interference free ones in the GTA and probably why the two pirates use it. BTW is the north pirate still on as I did not hear them the last two times I tried.

Since the addition of all the HD signals last year I would think that things have become even more challenging as far as empty frequencies in the GTA.

Not the few times I've driven through the area and checked, actually... maybe more in summer - I dunno.

PwrSurge wrote:

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

I tried and tried also.
Nothing.
Can some one record a clip of this station?
Some people are not luckey inuf to listen.

Surprisingly, I have noticed that my TV provider SkyChoice just added this station as one of the many radio stations they offer.  As they are based out of Oakville, I'm sure it is being received over the air using a tuner and the audio quality is pretty good.  Somebody over there must be a radio fan as they also added 102.7 Kingston back in March 2023 when it had the Pole format.

Their channel lineup can be viewed at https://www.skychoice.ca/chanlineup

Interesting if this is a pirate I wonder if they are aware they are getting this kind of attention. Moreover how would the CRTC feel about Sky Choice carrying it. I googled The Music Zone 93.9 Oakville and nothing comes up.

884    MusicZone 93.9 FM Oakville
 

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I wish I had sky choice.
Looking at their lineup, they have a lot of radio stations.
Is it available in Scarborough?
Sadly my building makes us have rogers.