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The reception of 680 here in Etobicoke is still hit or miss. Its usually super "clear" but now its a bit difficult.
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markow202 wrote:
The reception of 680 here in Etobicoke is still hit or miss. Its usually super "clear" but now its a bit difficult.
Maybe Rogers may possibly open an FM repeater to simulcast 680 News or as "CityNews" in Toronto like what they did to the Rogers-owned AM 1310 in Ottawa.
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Where in the world would they put it on the GTA's overcrowded FM dial?
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RadioActive wrote:
Where in the world would they put it on the GTA's overcrowded FM dial?
Nowhere worthwhile currently. If ownership limits get relaxed at the upcoming CRTC radio review, multiple options will present themselves.
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RadioActive wrote:
Where in the world would they put it on the GTA's overcrowded FM dial?
Good question unless, Rogers drops KiSS 92.5 CKIS-FM and uses it as a simulcast of 680 News. There's already a CHR station in Toronto as Virgin Radio on 99.9 CKFM-FM and CIDC-FM Z103.5 out of Orangeville. I would hate to see CHFI-FM 98.1 lose their longtime heritage ac station!
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I can't see Rogers dumping their "Perfect Music Mix" format on CHFI.
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mace wrote:
I can't see Rogers dumping their "Perfect Music Mix" format on CHFI.
CHFI is back and forth with BOOM and now Q107 as Toronto's most popular and listened to music station. CHFI is too popular, successful and makes too much money for Rogers to do anything that would change that.
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RadioAaron wrote:
RadioActive wrote:
Where in the world would they put it on the GTA's overcrowded FM dial?
Nowhere worthwhile currently. If ownership limits get relaxed at the upcoming CRTC radio review, multiple options will present themselves.
I see some logic in arguing that a repeater FM is not a third FM in ownership.
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paterson1 wrote:
mace wrote:
I can't see Rogers dumping their "Perfect Music Mix" format on CHFI.
CHFI is back and forth with BOOM and now Q107 as Toronto's most popular and listened to music station. CHFI is too popular, successful and makes too much money for Rogers to do anything that would change that.
Won't happen on 92.5 either. The increase in revenue from putting it there would have be greater than Kiss's current profit. That math would be nowhere close to working, currently.
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When I worked at TR in the early seventies our transmitter and antenna array was located at Hwy 10 and Burnamthorpe. It had thirteen towers, which sounds like an excessive amount but were necessary to control the signal pattern. During the day CFTR was limited to 10,000 watts and the pattern was such to protect a station that was in Rochester N.Y. on 680. At sunset, the Rochester station would sign off and at that time the board op at TR would walk to the racks at the back of the control room and push a button on the Nichols unit to change the coverage to an omni directional pattern. The power would then be increased to 50,000 watts. At sunrise, it would be returned to 10,000 watts if the op remembered! I recall the occasional phone call from that station in a panic complaining that we forgot to drop the power. At 50,000 watts we just obliterated them.
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Glen Warren wrote:
CBLT Toronto had to move off of RF TV 6 in September of 1972. This was done to make way for the Global Television Network launch in January 1974. Global's main CKGN transmitter was at Paris (Ayr) was assigned to RF TV 6. (Global had transmitter build / test occurring in the fall of 1973).
IIRC, at about the same time, Ottawa's CJOH was granted a licence to operate a repeater of CJOH on RF TV 6 located in Desoronto.
Global also had the licence for the Hull repeater assigned to operate on RF TV 6 from Hull (but at considerably lower power).
I also used to be able to "pick-up" Global Paris audio on my Candle/Jutan "component stereo" (don't laugh... Candle was pretty high tech sound for an eleven year old !!! THD... whats that? 2-way speakers with what seemed liked 28 gauge speaker wire... a true quality build!!!).
RF TV 6 is the highest TV channel in the VHF low band, before the FM radio band. RF TV 7 - 13 are after FM 108 for the VHF high band...
I think Bell/CTV shut down the analog CJOH repeater at Desoronto this past spring or summer....
I can remember listening to The Big Bang Theory on 87.7 FM driving in the Kingston area one time. I thought of it as listening to a CBS Radio comedy programme.
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Citypulse News 15 wrote:
When I worked at TR in the early seventies our transmitter and antenna array was located at Hwy 10 and Burnamthorpe. It had thirteen towers, which sounds like an excessive amount but were necessary to control the signal pattern. During the day CFTR was limited to 10,000 watts and the pattern was such to protect a station that was in Rochester N.Y. on 680. At sunset, the Rochester station would sign off and at that time the board op at TR would walk to the racks at the back of the control room and push a button on the Nichols unit to change the coverage to an omni directional pattern. The power would then be increased to 50,000 watts. At sunrise, it would be returned to 10,000 watts if the op remembered! I recall the occasional phone call from that station in a panic complaining that we forgot to drop the power. At 50,000 watts we just obliterated them.
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Yeah that's it!!
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