BOOM'S Totally G'80's Music Special

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Posted by paterson1
June 29, 2025 1:51 pm
#1

Just tuned in Boom Toronto and they have altered their programming this afternoon and are playing gay themed anthems and dance music to coincide with the parade.  I don't know if this is new or if they have done this before..
Hosted by Brooklyn Heights.

 
Posted by splunge
June 29, 2025 3:03 pm
#2

I've been listening since 11am.  really well produced with excellent music and listener engagement.

 
Posted by brian451
June 29, 2025 3:20 pm
#3

They did it last year too. Same host. Lots of interviews and a good playlist. My wife and I enjoyed it last year. Not able to listen today

 
Posted by RadioAaron
June 29, 2025 4:09 pm
#4

brian451 wrote:

They did it last year too. Same host. Lots of interviews and a good playlist. My wife and I enjoyed it last year. Not able to listen today

It was very well done, but sounded like an exact repeat from last year.

 
Posted by ckg927 Online!
June 29, 2025 9:49 pm
#5

The only drawback is the music played on that show don't show up on Boom's "recently played" list.

 
Posted by RadioActive
June 30, 2025 1:48 pm
#6

I guess this proves it can be done right, despite the end of ProudFM at 103.9 (aka CIRR-FM) which died a slow death in 2023. 

 
Posted by RadioAaron
June 30, 2025 5:55 pm
#7

Boom was #1 by a very significant margin during this special.

 
Posted by jughead jones
June 30, 2025 6:50 pm
#8

It's a poor man's Sirius XM's 80s on 8.

 
Posted by paterson1
June 30, 2025 7:57 pm
#9

jughead jones wrote:

It's a poor man's Sirius XM's 80s on 8.

I have SiriusXM radio again for a few months after a two year layoff.  I must say 70's on 7 and 80's on 8 have both gone downhill during that time.  70's on 7 plays a lot of the songs from our many lists regarding tunes that make you change the dial.  Too many that I didn't like in 1975/76 and still don't like.

 Just this morning they played Disco Duck for the second time in two days and last week I heard Gerry Rafferty's Right Down the Line three times in three days.  I like that song, but something is off since I didn't have the channel on much last week.  I have noticed that both channels don't put the effort into the station breaks like they did about 5 years ago and I have started to explore the (too many) other stations they are offering.

Also annoying, Sirius is chopping some songs abruptly for some reason.  Guitar Man by Bread was cut way before the song ended for some reason and slammed into the next song.   Announcers on both channels are very average but the early afternoon host (I think 70's on 7) seems to be broadcasting from Edmonton.

The sound quality is spotty at times and the only real advantage is the lack of commercials.  Music wise so far I would likely take BOOM over 80's on 8 and 90's on 9.  Both stations have a lot of "B" hits that I am not familiar with.

 
Posted by mace
July 1, 2025 7:35 am
#10

I have never had SiriusXM and judging by the above comments, I doubt I ever will. For a wide variety of music I rely on AccuRadio, which I believe RA mentioned recently.

 
Posted by Dave The OTA guy
July 2, 2025 7:21 pm
#11

Because of this forum I learned of a Palm Springs radio station called KGAY 106.5 & 92.1. I've been listening to them online almost daily for more than a year.

KGAY plays a very wide variety of music from the 70s through 2025.  Sure, most is dance music but once in a while you'll hear Coldplay or even The Black Keys. 

It's not the same 100 or so songs every day like on Boom but in a re-arranged order.  A song you hear today, you might not hear again for several days or even for more than a week.  A New York Times story about the station said their music library has more than 900 songs.

They have live DJs, dance mixes at noon (PST) and while they're focused on the Cochella Valley they regularly point out where people are listening to them online.

 
Posted by RadioAaron
July 2, 2025 8:16 pm
#12

Dave The OTA guy wrote:

It's not the same 100 or so songs every day like on Boom but in a re-arranged order. A song you hear today, you might not hear again for several days or even for more than a week. A New York Times story about the station said their music library has more than 900 songs.

Boom played 797 different songs over the past week.

 
Posted by Binson Echorec
July 2, 2025 8:31 pm
#13

RadioAaron wrote:

Boom played 797 different songs over the past week.

A week that had two days of extended special programming. Any idea what the total of a week without would be?

 
Posted by RadioAaron
July 2, 2025 8:41 pm
#14

Binson Echorec wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

Boom played 797 different songs over the past week.

A week that had two days of extended special programming. Any idea what the total of a week without would be?

Good point. Previous week was 568.

Over the past 12 weeks, they playedn 1817 different songs.

Last edited by RadioAaron (July 2, 2025 8:44 pm)

 
Posted by Fitz
July 2, 2025 11:03 pm
#15

mace wrote:

I have never had SiriusXM and judging by the above comments, I doubt I ever will. For a wide variety of music I rely on AccuRadio, which I believe RA mentioned recently.

All depends on your preferences, Deep Tracks and Underground Garage are unmatched by anything on terrestrial radio and 60's Gold is better than any oldies station in the area. I might listen to 70's radio if it went up to 1974 but there was just too much dross in the the latter part of the decade. Most of the 80's music I like is available on Underground Garage and even Deep Tracks. 
 


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Posted by Shorty Wave
July 3, 2025 8:31 am
#16

jughead jones wrote:

It's a poor man's Sirius XM's 80s on 8.

 
I wouldn’t be too sure about that JJ as I find Sirius XM’s 80s on 8 has slipped lately, their repeat “quota” has really gone up, same on some of their other channels that I listen to like 1st Wave for example. I think they must have cut back on staff or something like that.

Last edited by Shorty Wave (July 3, 2025 9:56 am)

 
Posted by ig
July 3, 2025 9:25 am
#17

Boy, that's true. 

In its history, Sirius has never really gone deep; it was a completely different mindset to XM, and it's never been more evident than today with the way the channels are programmed.  Sirius always felt like it was for people who didn't care that much what came out of their radio, programmed by broadcasters who read too many of their own press releases, whereas at XM, content and quality were king.  

Bandwidth was always an ongoing challenge; there's only so much data that can be transmitted from the satellite, and it's allocated between channels depending on the programming and audience.  The only channels we couldn't screw with at XM were the country/trucker channels.  They said XM was founded on the truckers, and they couldn't be touched.  But if Classical were doing a 5.1 special or something fancy, they'd get a chunk of bandwidth moved over from the 90s, 80s and especially the 60s, 50s and talk channels.  When we launched Canada 360 was an 8k audio channel and a good phone line sounded better.   

Washington would never discuss bandwidth allocation but if you had one of the portable XM Recorder units, you could tell what the bandwidth was on a channel by letting it record for a couple of hours and seeing how much storage data was chewed up.  I had a bunch of radios going just to keep an eye on what was being allocated.

One of the nice things about working there was the ability to monitor 'board feeds' versus 'off-air' feeds.  CD audio quality?? Maybe so..  if the cd sounded like shit ;).  If you couldn't compare the two, it sounded okay.



paterson1 wrote:

jughead jones wrote:

It's a poor man's Sirius XM's 80s on 8.

I have SiriusXM radio again for a few months after a two year layoff.  I must say 70's on 7 and 80's on 8 have both gone downhill during that time.  70's on 7 plays a lot of the songs from our many lists regarding tunes that make you change the dial.  Too many that I didn't like in 1975/76 and still don't like.

 Just this morning they played Disco Duck for the second time in two days and last week I heard Gerry Rafferty's Right Down the Line three times in three days.  I like that song, but something is off since I didn't have the channel on much last week.  I have noticed that both channels don't put the effort into the station breaks like they did about 5 years ago and I have started to explore the (too many) other stations they are offering.

Also annoying, Sirius is chopping some songs abruptly for some reason.  Guitar Man by Bread was cut way before the song ended for some reason and slammed into the next song.   Announcers on both channels are very average but the early afternoon host (I think 70's on 7) seems to be broadcasting from Edmonton.

The sound quality is spotty at times and the only real advantage is the lack of commercials.  Music wise so far I would likely take BOOM over 80's on 8 and 90's on 9.  Both stations have a lot of "B" hits that I am not familiar with.

 


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