geo wrote:

to what morning show do you normally listen & what repetitive commercial led you to hit the scan button?

I don't really have "a must listen to" morning show anymore. The last one was The Stephanie Miller show on the now defunct liberal talk station in Buffalo. She's very funny and has a great team. Loved her pokes at conservatives and conservative media figures such as "gasbag" Rush.  

Sorry I don't remember what I was listening to before ( maybe CBC radio 1 or 2).  

I tend to  mostly scan the dial now when I have the radio on hoping to find something interesting and today I did. I wish I knew what it was and that it came in clearer. Was strange to hear these old airchecks with no explanation. 
 

The Ashbys of Don Mills are hosting a huge bash this evening

Connection?      Ashby Pirate Broadcasting network?
 

The July 15 1050 CHUM reunion of staffers (who were there between 1967 and 1977) was an outstanding affair. And that 104.9 signal was a part of the festivities, pumping out at a magnificent 1-watt. This event was an amazingly well-planned and well-attended blast from the past with the turnout numbering close to 100.
 

Kilgore wrote:

Radiowiz wrote:

All I get is french from 105.1 overlapping on 104.9 FM

Is Ashby bilingual?    Bilingual lads from Waterloo are usually fluent in Pennsylvania Deutsch + a smattering of English
 

105.1 is licenced for the Toronto area: http://choqfm.ca/
 

iPatch wrote:

The July 15 1050 CHUM reunion of staffers (who were there between 1967 and 1977) was an outstanding affair. And that 104.9 signal was a part of the festivities, pumping out at a magnificent 1-watt. This event was an amazingly well-planned and well-attended blast from the past with the turnout numbering close to 100.
 

I missed your post Ipatch. Thanks for the the update.  1 watt wow. I guess it will be gone anytime now.
 

RadioActive wrote:

Any chance he streams it anywhere for those of us not near the signal?

I heard some fantastic airchecks that captured the fun and excitement of a bygone era but I have not heard anything else on that frequency since July 15 and 16. I`m only within signal range during my weekday commute.

Now if he has that much tape perhaps he can consider something like this:

http://www.kfat.com/

KFAT is the only dead radio station you can listen to on your computer. It doesn't even smell up your speakers - not too badly, anyhow. 
Click here to listen. (requires a broadband connection & a decent MP3 player like Winamp or iTunes). 
 

Last edited by Fitz (July 27, 2015 9:16 pm)

Well Geo, your lame attempt at humour once again actually has a nugget of truth.  In actual fact, there are NO Al Boliska show airchecks (at least from his morning program).  Bob Laine and I looked everywhere in the CHUM building, but nothing exists.  SInce then, I haven't found anybody who has a complete hour from his 6 to 9AM show.  We have some World's Worst Jokes and there is an hour of him in the early 1960's doing the noon to 1PM show..a shift he hated doing by the way.  He basically did nothing but time and temperature and did not do anything remotely funny doing that shift.

geo wrote:

parking lot @ David Dunlap Observatory was packed yesterday evening     

astronomers looking for Pluto?    No    

teenagers necking?    No    

it was wall-to-wall old codgers tuned to FM 104.9 desparately hoping to catch Al Boliska air checks

Good one Geo and has a ring of truth for this radio fanatic !

Al Boliska was a bit before my time but I would  climb the highest hill to hear Tim Thomas on CHUM FM from 1971-72. One of my all time fave jocks and I have not heard any of his work from CHUM FM. Oh how I long to hear an aircheck of him playing the Jim Kweskin Jug Band into the Lovin`Spoonful.

Dale Patterson wrote:

I remember when Tim Thomas played "The Anniversary of World War III" by the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.

One minute and 36 seconds of silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc_0cii5o7c

 

I remember hearing The West Coast Pop Experimental Band`s version of The Smell Of Incense on CHUM FM a few times. Before that I had assumed that the version by The Southwest FOB which charted on 1050 CHUM (fall of 1968?) was the original.

Tim Thomas was the first radio announcer I ever spoke to. I called him up and remember discussing various musicians including Bruce Palmer of the Buffalo Springfield. He had come up to Toronto post Springfield and worked a bit with Luke and The Apostles and was not easiest musician to work with. I also remember asking TT, during that same conversation, what became of Brian Skinner and I think he mentioned something about a connection to Astrology.



 

Last edited by Fitz (July 28, 2015 9:47 pm)