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Is AM 740 The Only Station That Still Does This?
I was listening to AM 740 over the weekend, admittedly something I don't do a lot. I noticed that when they were giving the forecast, they always reported the temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.
I remember when the metric system first came to Canada around April 1975. Every radio and TV station was careful to give the current conditions in both scales, because it was brand new. But gradually, it stopped until no one was doing it any more.
Or so I thought. I know 740's audience skews older but really - it's been almost 50 years and they still use both?
Is there any other radio outlet in Canada that still reports the temps. this way? Maybe stations in Windsor? I was never a huge fan of the conversion but it's here and after half a century, I'm not sure they need to do this any more.
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it's been almost 50 years and they still use both?
Can you talk to my parents about this?
Last l was able to listen, AM 580 Windsor was 'bilingual' too.
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If you really want to see how much we are getting ripped off at the gas pump divide the pump price by 22 to get the gallon price. $1.54/L=$7.00/gal.
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If you really want to see how much we are getting ripped off at the gas pump divide the pump price by 22 to get the gallon price. $1.54/L=$7.00/gal.
*offer not valid for those under 65
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AM 740 for quite a while trumpeted their signal reaching well into the U.S., as well as programming for more aged listeners. I Imagine it's not unlike WNED and WBFO aiming to cater to their Canadian audience.
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AM 740 for quite a while trumpeted their signal reaching well into the U.S., as well as programming for more aged listeners. I Imagine it's not unlike WNED and WBFO aiming to cater to their Canadian audience.
I suppose that could be true and it's a fair point. Although why anybody in the States would care about the Toronto weather forecast or the city's temperatures, isn't clear to me.
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We have a neighbour who changes the settings in his car to show his speed in MPH, his odometer in miles and the outdoor temp in farenheit.
To him, the metric system is a left wing conspiracy.
After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
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And by "left wing" he means the whole rest of the world. Except the USA. And, -- trivia -- The Cayman Islands and Liberia.
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AM 740 for quite a while trumpeted their signal reaching well into the U.S., as well as programming for more aged listeners. I Imagine it's not unlike WNED and WBFO aiming to cater to their Canadian audience.
Since 740 is a Canadian priority clear channel frequency, CFZM gets the 750 miles from Toronto night signal protection. Same with 860.
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AM 740 for quite a while trumpeted their signal reaching well into the U.S., as well as programming for more aged listeners. I Imagine it's not unlike WNED and WBFO aiming to cater to their Canadian audience.
I suppose that could be true and it's a fair point. Although why anybody in the States would care about the Toronto weather forecast or the city's temperatures, isn't clear to me.
Anyone listening outside of the GTA is not listening to AM 740 for the weather.
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CFTR's 68 second news break right up until they went all news ended their news with weather in both temps just before going to music.
Any radio station near a border today should do both temps. It's the smart thing to do.
As for AM 740, well, it is targeting an older audience, I suppose...
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I don't think CKTB does this. They're practically sitting right on the U.S.' doorstep. And I know they come in very well across the border, because the late talk show host John Michael used to get a ton of calls from Buffalo and the Western New York area.
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If the station isn't actually courting the neighbouring country of the 65+ audience, the extra temp is just clutter.
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If you really want to see how much we are getting ripped off at the gas pump divide the pump price by 22 to get the gallon price. $1.54/L=$7.00/gal.
As someone who does this mental math a lot when crossing the border, this isn't the right equation. It's 3.8 L to the gallon, so $1.54/L would be $5.85/gal. (But that's also about the highest price I see anywhere in the GTA, with $1.44 easy to find around town. That's $5.47/gal, which is US$3.94/gal. By comparison, we're averaging around US$3.25/gal here in Rochester, which translates to about C$1.19/L.)
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I don't think CKTB does this. They're practically sitting right on the U.S.' doorstep. And I know they come in very well across the border, because the late talk show host John Michael used to get a ton of calls from Buffalo and the Western New York area.
I know for a fact CKTB used to mention bridge crossing wait times (mostly during summer holidays and long weekends) but I can't recall them ever doing dual temperatures.
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Global gas prices for those interested:
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Gas price predictions from the usually reliable Dan McTeague:
Gas Wizard Prices For Toronto
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CFTR's 68 second news break right up until they went all news ended their news with weather in both temps just before going to music.
Any radio station near a border today should do both temps. It's the smart thing to do.
As for AM 740, well, it is targeting an older audience, I suppose...
Even into the 80's CHYR in Leamington was still giving temperatures in Fahrenheit. Only when mentioning the current temp did they give the Celsius figure and only after the Fahrenheit reading. I was told then that, due to their close proximity to the U.S. , people in the area still related more to Fahrenheit.
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The late George Jonescu, who did the BBSN show on AM 740 and, before that, on CHAY used to give the celsius temp and then in fahrenheit which he called "the real numbers."
After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
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Gas price predictions from the usually reliable Dan McTeague:
Gas Wizard Prices For Toronto
Gas Buddy is showing much lower in Toronto.
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I use the Gasbuddy app to check local gas prices. Sometimes I will check prices across Canada just to compare. I have found the consistently most expensive gas in North America and it isn't in Canada. A small hamlet called Fenner in California about 30 miles west of the Arizona border has one station selling regular gas for 8.09/gal. Of course heading west into the desert, one wouldn't want to risk running out of fuel. Furnace Creek in Death Valley is a more reasonable $4.89/gal.