Thanks for passing this along Radio.Intern.  If this is it tonight for Mike Cooper on air, congratulations to him on a great career!  He worked at some of the best stations with CHFI, CHUM, CKGM, CFTR, EZ Rock and maybe a few others I forgot.  As a teen Mike enrolled in the broadcast course at Mohawk and his first station after finishing at Mohawk was CKAT FM in North Bay.   I always have enjoyed Coop's Classics whenever I have listened, and tonight absolutely will be tuning in. 

pinto wrote:

Publicly posted a week or so ago, his last show is in the can.

"In the can" and airing tonight? 

So whos taking over the classics show?  He did a good job with it - still remember the old oldies show with Don Daynard as a young one and its almost a CHFI staple to have a classics show on saturday nights, although Coopers classics was basically the same thing as listening to Boom. 

RadioAaron wrote:

I'm going to guess they nuke it....probably only kept it going recently as a convenient way to keep Cooper on the station in some form.

I second Radio Aaron's thoughts. Especially after the phase out of a similar program last year: Sunday Morning Rewind. Once Tish Iceton was let go, Darryl Henry kept it going until the Christmas switch. Then in the new year it never came back, replaced by more of "Toronto's Perfect Music Mix". A real shame because that was a fantastic show, especially with Tish.
 

The only good retro show left on the air is Roger Ashby's. Only problem is that I don't get to the radio dial at home very much except maybe on DX days and to test my AM stereo transmitter. Shame that's it's not on when I am in the car much.

About two months ago I heard Ashes to Ashes by the Mindbenders on CKDO and thought  wow they're playing ??    I should have known but it turned out that it was on Roger Ashby.

RadioAaron wrote:

The Backsteet Boys had their first hit 26 years ago. A 26 year-old song on an oldies show then would have been from 1970

Oh, I get that. The Backstreet Boys certainly deserve their place on a retro show, and eventually the "newer oldies" will replace the "older oldies".

My point is that the show has a heritage as an "oldies" program (as in "older oldies"), dating back to the Don Daynard days, and I also think Mike Cooper's audience tends to skew on the older side. As the show progressed, the "malt shop oldies" got replaced with late 60s psychedelia and early-to-mid 70s pop, so it's all a natural progression.

Mostly, I was just stating my own personal preference, as CHFI is not my first choice on the dial, although I think they do a pretty good job of mixing current music along with stuff from decades past. 



PJ