I watched an american commenting about this video.
That person thoght it was weird.

Nothing weird about Cancon, but there were quite a few content regulations in the past that were quite bizarre.

Radiowiz wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

Nothing weird about Cancon, but there were quite a few content regulations in the past that were quite bizarre.

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.

tdotwriter wrote:

Radiowiz wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

Nothing weird about Cancon, but there were quite a few content regulations in the past that were quite bizarre.

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.


 

What category did Q107's "High Witness News" fit into?

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.