CFNY
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Great video CFNY was the best in the eighties
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Gaoler
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Great radio station, always on the cutting edge. Listened to them exclusively in the late seventies and early eighties. Bought all my records from Starr Records in Scarborough at that time, they sold mostly imported vinyl from the UK and promoted a lot of local bands. They were way ahead of the curve on what was being played on mainstream radio. Bought my first Clash,Sex Pistols and Teenage Head albums there after hearing them on CFNY.
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AllistonGT
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Listened to them all day at work back in the 80's. Nothing else like it then or forever after.
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Dialed that so many times.
Dialed that so many times.
sburns
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The edge, been listening to them forever. Cool live to air from clubs back in the day. Met a few of the DJ's around TO.
More recently they have been playing some of the older music they use to play in current programming, glad they did. But generally the programming has been pretty much the same music in rotation every few hours. Still better then other stations, and fun off kilt humour.
More recently they have been playing some of the older music they use to play in current programming, glad they did. But generally the programming has been pretty much the same music in rotation every few hours. Still better then other stations, and fun off kilt humour.
The running gag was that the party didn't start at Kingdom until Martin Streek (RIP) played So What.
They get The Hard Drive - Alternative Ver. from Corus corporate HQ every month with the set list they are required to play. Boooorrrrring
sburns
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Yeah I'm sure it's all automated and hand picked, but literally they programming was so bad they would play the same songs in almost the same order every few hours. After a while I just would stop listening because it was so bad, and repetitive. At least now and very recently as in earlier last year they have tried to mix things up by playing some stuff from the 80's early 90's. I haven't heard them play Depeche Mode on there for years! It's a nice change.
Yes. It's on a hard drive that loops. The "personalities" (there's only DJs on college/uni stations now) have audio cues that tell them when to do their shtick, when to do the local commercials, and when to kill their mics. EVERY Corus station is like that no matter what the format. We use to have a radio at work before the revolt. They always wanted to listen to classic rock (spoiler: putting classic in front of rock doesn't make it any more palatable) and would leave it on Y108 ( which I lovingly referred to as Y108-track). If you came in a bit early and left a little late you'd be lucky enough to hear Hotel California 3 times
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I listen to indie 88 now closer to what the edge was than the edge is now.
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sburns
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Interesting thanks. I remember a while back I tried to dial in 88.1, which I think was Ryerson radio. But noticed there were a lot more 88 channels. Might try again.
sburns
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I heard elsewhere Don Berns (Dr. Trance) had a credit on the Doc, and he does. I listened to his shows almost religiously, he played music no one else was. I eventually met him through mutual friends, and it was funny we had similar last names spelled differently. Good guy, funny.
Ryerson is CJRT 91.1 FM, also known now as JAZZ.FM. Still good! CIUT (University of Toronto) is 89.5. Also good.
