Not that you can really tell.

I monitored it for about an hour on Monday just by pure chance and didn't hear the usual "we're testing" announcement even once. Unfortunately, it sounds exactly like it did when they were - non-stop songs, no announcers beyond Peter Borbely saying "Classic 1220" after almost every song - and nothing else. 

There are no announcers, no news, and worst of all for the owners - no spots. 

It remains to be seen - and heard - what form the station will eventually take now that its "sign-on" appears to be official. But it really needs to start making money eventually, tax write-off theories notwithstanding. 

Even the links on its webpage (one page only so far) appear to be not quite up to scratch. Clicking on the icons for Twitter, Instagram and Google Plus at the bottom of the page only gets you back to the same place. And its Facebook page link, which does work, hasn't been updated in at least a year or more.  

There are test pages I found that are not supposed to be public that clearly haven't been serviced yet. One of them is an ad banner that still says "Sponsor Banner," with no company on it.   

One more anomaly - while the station has a "Recently Played Song" list on its one working webpage, some of the songs listed were never played. That same page, by the way, proclaims that its website is "Coming Soon!" the same message that's been there for almost a year. But at least they're streaming, if you want to hear what it all sounds like.

I will say they have a far more varied oldies playlist than any station I've heard in years, with some songs in the period I was listening that haven't been on air in a very long time. When was the last time you heard "My Sweet Lady" by John Denver or Ric Ocasek's "Emotion In Motion?"

I can't believe this is all they're going to do, and I'm guessing this is a soft launch. There are some promises of performance regs they told the CRTC they'd do that goes beyond just playing music non-stop.

Among them, from their application page on the CRTC site: "2 hours of news, weather and sports. In addition to local, regional, national and some international news, the station would offer community-focused programming, such as weather and traffic reports, community billboards and talk shows promoting local events from charities and not-for-profit groups, for a total of 10 hours and 25 minutes of spoken word programming each week." 

None of those are in evidence yet. And as it stands right now, you can't tell the difference between their test and their regular programming. 

It may be worth tuning in every now and then to see what they do next - and when.

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