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Why Does CKTB Still Not Have A Website?
It's one of the staples of modern day broadcasting - a website for your station, where you can list your. programming, highlight your personalities, list your schedule and put up your podcasts. It's been well over a month since Whiteoaks took over CKTB from Bell, and the station still does not have an actual website. All I can find is this page, that tells you nothing about when "soon" ends.
It baffles me how they could have known the big change was coming and not have this ready by now. What could possibly be taking them so long?
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Because they're in SO FAR over their heads.
Even on that temporary site, the social links are useless: The FB and IG accounts can't be seen in Canada, and the Twitter/X account hasn't been updated in 3 years.
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It's kind of surprising. I remember when my TV station was just getting into websites and was setting up its own news page. They hired a firm to make it look like the News Director wanted, showed him a few proofs and they were sent away to get it done.
Less than a week later, it was finished, a few tweaks were applied, and it was online within a few days after that.
The whole thing took less than two weeks and after a soft launch test, we were up and running.
I cannot understand in this day and age when you can almost prefab a site, they still don't have one.
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It's not just CKTB...all the stations that Whiteoaks recently took over from Bell still don't have websites. All look the same as the CKTB "site" right now. Coming soon....
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In this day and age this is lame. Even my convenience store has a website! (Okay, I’m stretching it a bit). People usually check out a company’s website especially when it is a new venture in their community, and some companies can even monetize their sites to some extent, so go figure! They really just need a template for all the Whiteoaks stations and fill in the specifics, Wordpress would work.
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Whiteoaks' CJYE, the religious formatted station at 1250 AM, has its own site. So the infrastructure is there. You have to wonder if the building blocks are in place, what's taking so long.
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I'm sure they could hire a local student and they'd have it figured out in a few days. Wordpress sites are very simple.... there's no excuse for it taking this long
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The hazards of outsourcing to the lowest bidders (which are inevitably clueless-but-eager community college students).
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torontostan wrote:
I'm sure they could hire a local student and they'd have it figured out in a few days. Wordpress sites are very simple.... there's no excuse for it taking this long
SoCast (Locally: Stingray, Corus, Indie, Evanov, Flow) can get you up and running in DAYS.
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It is now the middle of September.
Whiteoaks took over CKTB on June 24th.
CKTB still does not have a website, although you can listen online.
In this modern day when the Internet plays such an important part of a station's branding, this is just unbelievable.
It's been three months and still no sign of a web presence, yet other stations can do a complete format flip and their new site is up and running the second the new branding debuts. There has to be an explanation for this and I'd love to know what it is.
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It is now the middle of September.
Whiteoaks took over CKTB on June 24th.
CKTB still does not have a website, although you can listen online.
In this modern day when the Internet plays such an important part of a station's branding, this is just unbelievable.
It's been three months and still no sign of a web presence, yet other stations can do a complete format flip and their new site is up and running the second the new branding debuts. There has to be an explanation for this and I'd love to know what it is.
One of life's great imponderables. The reason why is on a 'need to know' basis, and White Oaks apparently don't think you need to know.
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The explanation is they have no idea how to do it themselves, despite how simple it is
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More important is the fact that CKTB is sounding really good. Strong hosts, good news and lots of local ads and information. It is strange why the website or lack of one is taking so long, but the most important thing is the product on air. In this area they are doing a very good job.
- Johninoakville
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The website is now up with details.
- RadioAaron
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I suppose this looks good on desktop, but it’s a nightmare on mobile. 
- Paul Jeffries
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I suppose this looks good on desktop, but it’s a nightmare on mobile.
I've seen worse. Zoomer Radio Toronto's old website from a few years ago was not mobile-friendly at all, clearly set up for viewing on desktop only. Zoomer Radio Owen Sound's website is currently like that.
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Likely not the case for CKTB, but most stations get the majority of their views from mobile.
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I've seen worse. Zoomer Radio Toronto's old website from a few years ago was not mobile-friendly at all, clearly set up for viewing on desktop only. Zoomer Radio Owen Sound's website is currently like that.
They probably have the lowest share of mobile viewers out of all stations
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They probably got tired of the moderator's kvetching, and threw something up to quiet him...🤔
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Well, at least they finally have a web presence. Not great, but it's something. Took them about two months. Talk about being out of "site."
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I've seen worse. Zoomer Radio Toronto's old website from a few years ago was not mobile-friendly at all, clearly set up for viewing on desktop only. Zoomer Radio Owen Sound's website is currently like that.
They probably have the lowest share of mobile viewers out of all stations
Still, you wouldn't think building a mobile site would be a hard thing to do. I use WIX for my station's website and it automatically builds a mobile version and allows you to fine tune it and the desktop version separately if need be, as do most website hosts/builders. Makes me wonder what they're using.
Plus, you'd think there'd be somebody on staff with a smartphone that said "Hey, this doesn't look right". 
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