The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / CKOC audio has been bad for two days

**Posted by alangee** July 8, 2025 7:04 pm

Audio on the web sounds fine, but over the air it's terrible.

**Posted by Evuguy** July 8, 2025 7:58 pm

I imagine CKOC's audio processor from the 60's and 70's is probably long gone. What's there now might have been optimized for voice, since they were a talk station under Bell's ownership.

**Posted by Radiowiz** July 8, 2025 11:32 pm

Fixing the audio issues is one thing. It looks like they're also having trouble keeping some radio people.
The morning show is still in place, but where is Scott Penfold? (Afternoon drive)
https://www.1150ckoc.com/category/announcers/

**Posted by DOPEfm** July 9, 2025 5:53 pm

Evuguy wrote:
I imagine CKOC's audio processor from the 60's and 70's is probably long gone. What's there now might have been optimized for voice, since they were a talk station under Bell's ownership.

This optimization of operation for talk radio could be true.

I listened in the car this afternoon and it wasn't very fulsome sounding by many means.

**Posted by Bach001** July 9, 2025 8:12 pm

Anyone know what happened to Scott Penfold? Haven’t heard him in a while.

**Posted by Radiowiz** July 9, 2025 9:25 pm

Bach001 wrote:
Anyone know what happened to Scott Penfold? Haven’t heard him in a while.

Yeah, he's missing from the web page, as I already mentioned. I wonder what happened?

**Posted by RadioActive** July 10, 2025 6:11 am

I'm not sure if this is the same guy, but there's a Scott Penfold on Linked-In that shows a guy with that name and extensive radio experience. He's based out in Vancouver, but we all know that location no longer matters when being on air in a different market.

If this is him - and again, I'm not sure - he doesn't even bother listing CKOC on his resume. But you have to wonder - how many Scott Penfold's can there be in radio in this country? Anyone know if this is the same guy?

Scott Penfold on Linked-In

**Posted by Radiowiz** July 10, 2025 7:10 am

RadioActive wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the same guy, but there's a Scott Penfold on Linked-In that shows a guy with that name and extensive radio experience. He's based out in Vancouver, but we all know that location no longer matters when being on air in a different market.

If this is him - and again, I'm not sure - he doesn't even bother listing CKOC on his resume. But you have to wonder - how many Scott Penfold's can there be in radio in this country? Anyone know if this is the same guy?

Scott Penfold on Linked-In

Your link reads "Page not found" but, is this the guy?
This is his pic from Wayback machine's 1150 CKOC January web page.

Last edited by Radiowiz (July 10, 2025 7:16 am)

**Posted by RadioActive** July 10, 2025 7:20 am

Radiowiz wrote:
RadioActive wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the same guy, but there's a Scott Penfold on Linked-In that shows a guy with that name and extensive radio experience. He's based out in Vancouver, but we all know that location no longer matters when being on air in a different market.

If this is him - and again, I'm not sure - he doesn't even bother listing CKOC on his resume. But you have to wonder - how many Scott Penfold's can there be in radio in this country? Anyone know if this is the same guy?

Scott Penfold on Linked-In
Your link reads "Page not found" but, is this the guy?
I went to Wayback machine and found his pic on the CKOC page from last January.

I just checked the link and it works for me. Not sure what's going on.

Try this one:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-penfold-064900223/
And yes, that's the pic on his Linked-In page, so it has to be the same guy. Looks like if he lost or left the 1150 gig, he's not out of work!

**Posted by km93** July 10, 2025 12:01 pm

It would appear he is now doing News for Vista in B.C.

https://www.mytriportnow.com/45013/news/tri-port/section-of-granville-street-to-close-sunday-for-half-marathon/

My sympathies- from personal experience. 'News with Vista'- is a brutal gig

Last edited by km93 (July 10, 2025 12:02 pm)

**Posted by Paul Jeffries** July 11, 2025 2:18 am

Just out of curiosity, does anybody know where CKOC's and CHAM's studios are currently located? I know that CKLH relocated to 25 Main Street West in downtown Hamilton, but as CKLH and the two AMs are no longer sister stations, I assume they're located somewhere else. Supposedly all three stations vacated 883 Upper Wentworth Street quite a while back. Are the two AMs broadcasting out of Toronto?

PJ

**Posted by RadioAaron** July 11, 2025 7:48 am

Neither would really need a studio. They could be cloud operations.