Only 1 Canadian?   This means that there's gotta be some hours over-burdened with WAY too many 'pretend' golden treats.

It's tough to do but 1 crap-ass song can really hurt a mix.  The rest of THIS specific hour helps to some degree but really?  Is there any reason for anybody to still be playing 'Car Wash'?  'I Wanna Get Next to You' maybe.  But Car Wash?  It's invalid and doesn't stand the test of time with any musical credibility.  It begs for Steve Dahl to come to the rescue.  It's urine floating on a vinyl plate...with a huge hole in the middle of it.

And while we're at it...does Sweat Pea really fit in with the rest of this sample?  Too gummy and therefore dated.  Gum doesn't stand the test of time either.  By the way...how many songs in their universe?  As they seem to cover 3 decades...surely they can manage 70 songs a year...minimum...THAT's 2,100.  And those of those 70 songs they can include tunes which didn't make the top 20 right?  Payola...or lack of it...kept some good songs down.  And then there are lp tracks which have endured...especially during the era when 33 1/3's began to catch, match and then OUT SELL 45's.  There was, after all, a time when many AM stations would go 4 songs deep on new albums in order to offer more variety and to compete, at least musically, with FM.

CKWW should be aware that FM finally caught and then beat AM [just like lps caught and beat singles] in the mid 70s and they should consider their library accordingly.  Let's NOT remember the losing team exclusively.  That limits your audience much to the detriment of numbers and sales.  I have yet to hear a radio station do it anywhere close to right 24/7 since CHUM and CKEY went head to head with limitations which ultimately failed them both back in the late 80s.

Last edited by Old Codger (March 27, 2017 9:24 am)

I agree Fitz, that songs like that one from The Last Words need to be included but...the audience is not comprised only of music buffs and aficionados who go THAT deep into the pool.  So?  What to do?  Guess Who poisoning can be a tune-out for sure.  You put the Guess Who songs into 2 lists.  Each time through just 1 song from each list gets played.  The next time it's their turn...the next song on the list plays instead.  And so on so that we don't get over cooked with too much from any given artist...especially those who only partially earned their spot due to content regulations which artificially forced issues and results which otherwise might not have stood on their own two feet.

Do the same with those forgotten favourites...be they Canadian or international.  That way they don't get over-played yet they do get some recognition...especially from the musicologists out there in radio land.  "I haven't heard THAT one in years" is still great programming.

"Good gawd!!!  Not that one again.  They played it yesterday" is ultimate oldies stations ratings/business death.  [That includes YOU...Q...107.]

Last edited by Old Codger (March 27, 2017 9:38 am)

Still.  Ya gotta make up for it somewhere.   And loading Can Con into off hours is dirty pool.  Kinda like shortening 'em down to 60 something seconds and playing 30 - 40 of 'em between 11:00 and midnight eh Jimmy?  Oh Canada.  Our home and native land...Dammit!!!

And what's with those 'special' rules?  Doesn't Toronto have to contend with Buffalo?  Vancouver / Seattle?  The rest of us with the internet and those dick-wad satellite stations...plus those unattended jukebox choices on the cable TV?  What makes 'Wind Sore' so g-d'd special?  The Spitfires?

Last edited by Old Codger (March 27, 2017 10:17 am)

Why does everyone get this wrong? Radio stations go silent, TV stations go dark.

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/silent-radio-lists

Doesn't count. 
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Oh wait.  You're right.  It was the all-night show.  'Scuse me.  A dolt...yet again.

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So why would they run the added risk of further burning Robbie Lane out on the all-night show when there's absolutely no need or reason to?

Last edited by Old Codger (March 27, 2017 11:09 am)

Old Codger: "..  Guess Who poisoning can be a tune-out for sure .."

disagree .. 'course it's all personal opinion .. a common refrain; just delve further into the Guess Who catalogue beyond "the hits" .. 

Guess Who - Road Food - Attila's Blues


Guess Who - Live at the Paramount - Pain Train


Guess Who - Rockin' - Back to the City

 

The Guess Who were actually the topic of the blog post that made me curious about the station because they mentioned CKWW. Was on a American site and they don't suffer from the GW poisoning by the hits that we do up here: C&L's Music Club With The Guess Who