Kool Kitchener is the next Virgin Radio.

Don is usually very good at knowing what's next.
 

zed wrote:

if they do turn KOOL into Virgin it will be rather confusing because you can hear Virgin Toronto and London in KW already... but they probably don't care.

The sales team for Virgin Kitchener will just say "Nobody's gonna go all the way out to Toronto or London to shop..."
It will be convincing enough to generate local Kitchener ad revenue for a Virgin 105 FM, no doubt, should they choose to go ahead with the Virgin radio format in Kitchener...

As long as there is a local morning and afternoon drive, it will still be better than the Energy mistake that Corus made back in the day...
 

Last edited by Radiowiz (July 26, 2016 6:07 pm)

They do very well with the CHR format, generally. Though Toronto's been on a bit of a down-trend, and Winnipeg and Calgary have lost a little ground to KiSS, but still lead. Corus only has two -- Beat is un-chanllenged locally and does well enough, and Ottawa is stuck mid-gear.

Bounce Halifax will flip Friday too.

 

Last edited by Don (July 26, 2016 8:38 pm)

Friday at 11 am will be Big 101 in Barrie. Website all but confirms it

Just a Radio Fan wrote:

You can put a pretty pink ribbon on a pig but it is still a pig, and until Corus learns the importance of Local, their product in the Barrie market will still be terrible.​Not optimistic that will happen with the gassing of all in the news department last week, and announcers using their 3 breaks an hour to drive people to their website to watch stupid videos stolen from YouTube instead of talking about what is happening in their own backyard. 

To be fair, the ratings sucked when they had a news department and the corporate policy didn't have them driving people to their Facebook and website in every break.  It's a case of too many stations in one market going after young females, and zero visibility.

brian451 wrote:

Friday at 11 am will be Big 101 in Barrie. Website all but confirms it

NOON!
 

Glen Warren wrote:

10:30 in Newfoundland...

If you're aware of a format change in Newfoundland, please do share with us!

 

101.1 big fm is live. The website doesn't seem to be. You go to b101fm.com and it redirects to a site that doesn't load yet.
Also even though it's bell and was hijacking this thread a little Kitchener and Halifax are now virgin radio. Halifax was a name change only. Kool is playing 5000 songs in a row right now

The Waterloo Record has this to say about Kool-FM changes:

Kool-FM becomes Virgin Radio

Kilgore wrote:

Kilgore wrote:

when the announcer says "you're listening to 101.1 the BIG FM" it sounds too close to "95.1 the PEAK FM" which is a few miles west on Hwy 26

ANOTHER:   "you may be new to Barrie, but you already know our music".      Of course we know your music, which has been played to death on Rock 95; please dig deeper into the vault


 

 

I had the pleasure of listening to free SiriusXM a few weeks back and never left CH 27,
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hence my choice of username. I was a subscriber but due to financial constraints I allowed it to lapse.

My new work commute sees me on the road a minimum of 3 hours a day in good weather and non-rush hour traffic.There is no shortage of stations I can receive but there are none I want to listen to. I wasn't believing for a second B101 would be the 'one' that change that either.

And when I said "stations I can receive but there are none I want to listen to" there is one I, but  can't really receive it.

92.3 NISH-FM, broadcasts from Georgina Island. Their playlist is much like DeepTracks and I want to tune-in, but the problem is there signal is so very weak that I can't. By the time I can start to hear them my radio can also start to pick-up 92.3, The Dock in Orillia, and it doesn't know which one to stay latched on to.When it does favour NISH, what I hear is what I want to hear - 'B'-sides, the third cut in on side two of an album, songs never heard on terrestrial radio at any time. I gave thought to my iPhone but they do not have an internet stream.

Screw the 'Q', the 'B', the "Rock's', the 'Dock's, and the 'Moose'. Here's a tagline you could all share the cost of producing..."We're ALL the same, ALL time!

 

RadioActive wrote:

The Barrie Examiner has an article about the changes

​the Examiner's statement that Barrie is all about blue collar, working class is challengeable.     Subdivisions of luxury condos & s.f. homes are going up around the south shore of Lake Simcoe, all with direct access to the ever-expanding GO-train service.   Buyers are young high-techies who work at I.B.M. and its spin-offs in Markham (but can't afford Markham prices).   The blue collar segment is building those structures.     Barrie is still another white collar bedroom community to Toronto (like Waterloo, Guelph and Aurora)
 

RadioActive wrote:

The Barrie Examiner has an article about the changes at 101, including what can no longer really be called "newscasts."

http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2016/08/02/new-format-brings-changes-to-barrie-radio-station

I wonder what the late Wendy Hicks would have thought about all this ??




 

grilled.cheese wrote:

John Oakley's bailiwick is the human condition

If not for Father Oakley we Catholics would still be going to McDonalds on Fridays for Filet-o-fish instead of High Street for the halibut
 

If it's 8:30 and I'm in my car and you don't have news on your station I'm not waiting to get to work to Google the news...  I'm going to hit seek.

Handing your listeners to the competition twice an hour all morning long isn't a strategy I would endorse.

Last edited by Prod Guy (August 5, 2016 12:54 pm)