Greg's genuinely funny, but his shtick gets olds pretty quick. 

Back in the early 70s I lived up aroung Wiarton. There was no local FM and nothing that could even be characterized as fringe. I had a six element Yagi and I kept it aimed northward. I used to get pretty regular reception from CKSO in Sudbury.

The Greg Beharell Show is syndicated all across the U.S.A. and Canada. The program's website says it aired on CFNY at some point, but I don't think it's on there any more. Here's the website where you can listen to an aircheck or a sample hour.

The Greg Beharrell Show

mic'em wrote:

turkeytop, this little gem is part of my vintage radio collection ...  Beharrel's show is obviously VT, there is no station id by him, time etc, just drop ins and could be used for any music format. But, I at least , find it to be something different and have enjoyed his stuff so far, although admittingly, I am not out much in the evenings now. Things defintily move slower in the North, I had to wait 6 days to get internet installed.  photo upload

I did a work assignment up in Sudbury for a few weeks back in the 90s. Sudbury is one of my favourite towns in Ontario. Good, solid working class town
 

mic'em wrote:

I have moved from Collingwood to Chelmsford. My wife is originally from Sudbury, so as we enter our retirement years, I am happy to bring her back to her life long friends and family. I am finding it here so much less stressful and quiet compared to our former location. 

How's the radio in Sudbury?

I had occasion to drive through a portion of Sudbury today searching out a Best Buy to purchase cords for my big screen after the movers didn't put them in the box I had asked them to, and I now have no idea where they are. I saw at least 3 locations with two station brand signs on the buildings. All were FM, and also CBC Radio has a studio in the downtown core . I have only listened primarily to 92.7 , the FM rocker, and 105.3 or was it 103.5 maybe, a current top 40 type , but the music of today just all sounds the same to me and doesn't interest me, so went back to 92.7. I was sitting in the parking lot of the car wash in Chelmsford yesterday and out of curiosity, scanned the AM side, 640 came in with our boy Johnny, 1030 Boston was strong, a French station that must have been local due to signal strength, and another U.S. station that I didn't pick up where it was from, or recall the frequency now. This was in my 2010 Malibu that has a terrific antenna, our Kia Sorento barely gets AM at all. When I was still " down south " as the locals say, I had to get to the highway 9 area before AM would come in static free , and that being just 590, and 640. 

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mace wrote:

What I remember was AM dxing was horrible. It was cold and in November. All the usual suspects, WBZ, WLS. WCBS etc. could be received but were weak with deep fading. Once I got maybe 10 miles south of Sudbury, they all came blasting in normally. No idea why.

Maybe it was interference from the Big Nickel!

I only have one artifact from Sudbury in my collection. For what it's worth, here it is from October 1953. (Didn't know it was the first private TV station in all of Canada.)