I am not a happy person
Mar. 28th, 2009 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danlansdowneThose who have known me for a while know that my music tastes lean towards the archaic. The vast majority of the music I listen to was written and recorded before 1979, a habit I picked up from my mother. I grew up on the Saturday Night Oldies Show on 98.1 CHFI FM; it was practically the only music I listened to. Almost all of the presets on my car radio are oldies stations. Well, they were at least.
It turns out the new overlords of the CHUM network of radio stations, CTV Globemedia, have decided to axe their oldies station 1050 CHUM and replace it with an all news format--now the third AM news/talk radio station in Toronto. I give it a year on the outside. They changed to a sports format in May 2001. They couldn't compete with the existing sports station, and went back to normal in August 2002.
This is the second station I've lost this year. The local station, Oldies 1090, moved to FM in January. However, they also moved their barrier up a few years; now the majority of the music they play is late 70s/early 80s, with the odd 60s/early 70s song to satisfy the blue-hairs (and me). Some 80s music I don't mind, but others I do not want to hear polluting my radio.
Only four other stations in the area play oldies music: 1380 in Brantford, which is very weak; 1460 in Guelph, which is weak in Cambridge and a sea of static in Toronto (at least under the streetcar wires that follow half my drive home); 740 in Toronto, which plays anything from Big Band music to bagpipe music (anything that won't raise blood pressure in older people), and 1150 in Hamilton, the oldest radio station in English-speaking Canada.
1150 from Hamilton is strong enough to be heard from Cambridge to Toronto and then some, but is not always enjoyable to listen to. For starters, the music is not always enjoyable (especially the government-mandated Canadian content; if I have to hear one more song by Anne Murray, Ocean, The Poppy Family, Joni Mitchell, or Edward Bear...), the commercials are irritating bordering on stupid, and the afternoon DJ is a pompous ass who thinks he's God's gift to the AM dial. He yaks with and makes fun of his co-host/traffic and weather girl for the majority of the time, interrupting his monologue every half-hour or so to play a few songs.
I want my music back dammit!
It turns out the new overlords of the CHUM network of radio stations, CTV Globemedia, have decided to axe their oldies station 1050 CHUM and replace it with an all news format--now the third AM news/talk radio station in Toronto. I give it a year on the outside. They changed to a sports format in May 2001. They couldn't compete with the existing sports station, and went back to normal in August 2002.
This is the second station I've lost this year. The local station, Oldies 1090, moved to FM in January. However, they also moved their barrier up a few years; now the majority of the music they play is late 70s/early 80s, with the odd 60s/early 70s song to satisfy the blue-hairs (and me). Some 80s music I don't mind, but others I do not want to hear polluting my radio.
Only four other stations in the area play oldies music: 1380 in Brantford, which is very weak; 1460 in Guelph, which is weak in Cambridge and a sea of static in Toronto (at least under the streetcar wires that follow half my drive home); 740 in Toronto, which plays anything from Big Band music to bagpipe music (anything that won't raise blood pressure in older people), and 1150 in Hamilton, the oldest radio station in English-speaking Canada.
1150 from Hamilton is strong enough to be heard from Cambridge to Toronto and then some, but is not always enjoyable to listen to. For starters, the music is not always enjoyable (especially the government-mandated Canadian content; if I have to hear one more song by Anne Murray, Ocean, The Poppy Family, Joni Mitchell, or Edward Bear...), the commercials are irritating bordering on stupid, and the afternoon DJ is a pompous ass who thinks he's God's gift to the AM dial. He yaks with and makes fun of his co-host/traffic and weather girl for the majority of the time, interrupting his monologue every half-hour or so to play a few songs.
I want my music back dammit!
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Date: 2009-03-30 02:20 pm (UTC)