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Toronto Radio/TV Listings May 1987
I have these Globe TV/Radio listings from May 1987 which I saved because of the Beatles cover. I was looking through them noted that the radio listings were more inclusive than usual especially for the rock stations. I remember the old Globe listings for radio were minimal and mostly included CFRB and Classical, same with the Toronto Life ones.
Cable 13 which was TVO French is listed.
The article on the Beatles BTW is by Alan Niester who was a long time Globe rock critic and also a freelancer for publications such as Rolling Stone and Creem.
This has listing for almost all of the CFNY DJ's. Plus the Comedy Bowl with Ted Woloshyn, Dr Demento, The Streets of Ontario, Out of The Blue - The Jazz Show with Larry Green, Masters and Moderns which I believe was the classical show with David Height and more. All this diversity plus Daddy Cool is something else the NY Doc could have highlighted.
Q 107 had the Sunday Sex Show, The Blues Show, QJazz, The Road Show with John Candy and More, CHUM FM's Sunday Funnies, The Sunday Morning Oldies Show, CBC Music's Brave New Waves was there plus a lot more AM and FM content. Even CKLN was included.
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I see CJRT had a Sunday night program called "Music Before 1800." Now those are oldies!
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I see CJRT had a Sunday night program called "Music Before 1800." Now those are oldies!
Or maybe they were on military time, and it's music before 6 PM!
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I see CJRT had a Sunday night program called "Music Before 1800." Now those are oldies!
to offset things they also had the futuristic Brave New Waves.
I see Diasphoric Music on CKLN listed. Was that not hosted by Norman Otis Richmand and moved to CFNY and what the heck was Poet's Corner on Q 107 ?
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I see CJRT had a Sunday night program called "Music Before 1800." Now those are oldies!
to offset things they also had the futuristic Brave New Waves.
I see Diasphoric Music on CKLN listed. Was that not hosted by Norman Otis Richmand and moved to CFNY and what the heck was Poet's Corner on Q 107 ?
I used to live in Regina and CBC’s Brave New Waves was my radio link to what was hot in “alternative” music in the mid 80s, which local radio wouldn’t touch. Oddly, most of the artists Brave New Waves played eventually became mainstream. It aired in the evenings and I would quite often tape it, remember ghetto blasters?! I had a nice Hitachi model which I got my money’s worth out of! I enjoyed this time capsule post, thanks Fitz!
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Would ya have a look at May 30th at 11:08PM.... I thought you hated the CBC ;)
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I see CJRT had a Sunday night program called "Music Before 1800." Now those are oldies!
to offset things they also had the futuristic Brave New Waves.
I see Diasphoric Music on CKLN listed. Was that not hosted by Norman Otis Richmand and moved to CFNY and what the heck was Poet's Corner on Q 107 ?
I used to live in Regina and CBC’s Brave New Waves was my radio link to what was hot in “alternative” music in the mid 80s, which local radio wouldn’t touch. Oddly, most of the artists Brave New Waves played eventually became mainstream. It aired in the evenings and I would quite often tape it, remember ghetto blasters?! I had a nice Hitachi model which I got my money’s worth out of! I enjoyed this time capsule post, thanks Fitz!
Brave New Waves I think was originally hosted by Brent Bambury and not sure if you ever made it to the early morning around 4 AM but he used to get really experimental by that time, Side long electronic tracks. On the weekends they used to have Nightlines in the same time slot. I really liked that show and have even saved a few short air checks of them. Here is a snip of Nightlines with second host David Wisdom and he has a great line "home killing is taping music" and he back announces a bunch of very indie bands at the beginning:
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Originally hosted by Augusta La Paix and I remember this because it was the first time I heard the F word on the radio, a serious transgression at the time. There was a three person convo and one guest casually said it, interrupted herself, but La Paix quickly said "It's OK, I didn't say it" which was a small brilliance. It took the tension right out of the air.
Another memory - perhaps from that same show - was a guest who owned a hairstyling shop in Manhattan called Jungle Red. The interior featured big plants and ferns and such. The waiting room was a waterbed.
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Originally hosted by Augusta La Paix and I remember this because it was the first time I heard the F word on the radio, a serious transgression at the time. There was a three person convo and one guest casually said it, interrupted herself, but La Paix quickly said "It's OK, I didn't say it" which was a small brilliance. It took the tension right out of the air.
I knew of Bambury's connection with "Brave New Waves" in his various biography blurbs over the years (and a Toronto Mike'd podcast appearance) but hadn't heard of Augusta. Here's an archival article from The Globe & Mail dated May 26, 1984 that may be of interest. It mentions "the 14 weeks" it's been on-air.
Was just reading Exclaim's piece from 2024 at about the show that is also worth a read.
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Thank you Green Rambler and also Aspectratio. I knew they had a female host and incorrectly assumed she was after Bambury and had forgotten her name but now I remember. I skimmed thru that article and it confirms what I said about the show getting really experimental in the wee hours. Will have to read both articles in full when I have time time. I belive they did have another host after Banbury as well.
Edit - I just read in the article that they did have another host after Bambury.
I had not heard about the F word incident.
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Interesting to see CBC Radio’s Saturday lineup, a couple things that haven’t changed in 39 years - The House and Quirks & Quarks, still in the same time slots all these years later.
Looks like Cross Country Checkup used to start following the news at 5:00pm ET instead of the current 4:00.
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I noticed the only two Buffalo stations listed are WNED and WBEN. Likely, they are the only two Buffalo stations that Toronto listeners could receive clearly with an average FM radio.
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I noticed the only two Buffalo stations listed are WNED and WBEN. Likely, they are the only two Buffalo stations that Toronto listeners could receive clearly with an average FM radio.
I don't think that's necessarily the case I think for Buffalo they reverted the usual tilt towards adults/classical. WBFO was also included.
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