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Station Boasts It Has 1st All Female Morning Show. But It's Not True
CFBT-FM is better known as Virgin 94.5 in Vancouver. In a big and boastful article in an online news site, it boasts it has the first all-female morning show in Canada - and likely beyond.
"Holly Conway and Nira Arora...are among the only — if not the only — female-led morning show across Canada and potentially, far further than just our country's borders."
But it doesn't take a long memory to know that's not true. Toronto's AM740 once boasted an all feminine morning crew just a few years ago, when Jane Brown (who is still there) and Sam Houston formed a duo that played music in the morning for GTA listeners.
The only aside for the story is they claim to be the only female Top 40 morning show. I'm not sure if the format counts, though, in making that statement.
Vancouver duo keeps it real as Canada's 1st female-led top 40 morning radio show
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RA, it was less than a few years ago that AM740 was an all female crew as Sam Houston was there until this past August. She was replaced by their producer Andy Wilson, who was bucking to be on air for quite some time!
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Going back further, from 1966-69 little 790 CHIC Brampton had an all female announcing staff. Clever promotion. "CHIC: Where The Girls Are"
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Or how about Midnight Blue on Zoomer Radio. The world's only X rated radio program Monday to Friday at midnight...
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paterson1 wrote:
Or how about Midnight Blue on Zoomer Radio. The world's only X rated radio program Monday to Friday at midnight...
This reminds me...has radio ever had what television calls a "watershed hour"? As a kid, I could get exposed to all kinds of theoretically unsuitable tv programming after a certain time but radio never seemed to go too far down that road in my experience.
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I am shocked that a radio station would ever make a boast about itself that isn't literally true.
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Or how about Midnight Blue on Zoomer Radio. The world's only X rated radio program Monday to Friday at midnight...
This reminds me...has radio ever had what television calls a "watershed hour"? As a kid, I could get exposed to all kinds of theoretically unsuitable tv programming after a certain time but radio never seemed to go too far down that road in my experience.
The CRTC doesn't (or at least didn't used to) particarly care what a radio station did after midnight. Cancon doesn't apply from midnight to 6 am, for instance.
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Codi Jeffreys had an all female morning show in Ottawa on Jewel FM long before AM 740 had theirs in Toronto.
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The CRTC doesn't (or at least didn't used to) particarly care what a radio station did after midnight. Cancon doesn't apply from midnight to 6 am, for instance.
This, I knew. I used to produce an overnight music show. IIRC, we ran CanCon at 20% just to keep some degree of consistency.
I was thinking more along the lines of adult-targeted programming. Sue Johanson's "Sunday Night Sex Show", as an example; but that show was an outlier, it's not like each station offered up their own slate of such programming that I can recall. Which is how I got here in the first place lol.
Of course it could be argued that a talk station is adult-targeted all day long. I suppose a music station could "leave in all the swears" in tunes after a certain hour.