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Showing posts with label Radio. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
129...One Less Radio Station
Seems like AM1150 in Ottawa, CJRC AM is no longer. For those of you that follow such things, the station transitioned to FM at 104.7 about a year ago and was simulcasting AM/FM.
What I fail to understand is why the AM has to die; the same thing has happened repeatedly in this market with 540, 630, 970, 1150 and 1440. The more voices the better one would think.
But I suppose it doesn't make the leather tied bureaucrats at the CRTC happy so, c'est la vie.
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What I fail to understand is why the AM has to die; the same thing has happened repeatedly in this market with 540, 630, 970, 1150 and 1440. The more voices the better one would think.
But I suppose it doesn't make the leather tied bureaucrats at the CRTC happy so, c'est la vie.
WFDS
Monday, May 4, 2009
86...The Team1200
Is a local Ottawa all sports station. For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian radio and TV, direct competition is an anathema to the governing body of broadcasting in the Great White North. The Canadian Radio and Television Commission is bureaucracy and superciliousness taken to the next level. Therefore, unlike the land down under the 49th, there will never be two of anything trying to serve the same market and demographic in this country on the radio dial if the CRTC can help it.
In Ottawa that means we have one country station, one all news station, one sports station etc. Our sports station is The Team 1200 and it is sooooooo random.
Please bear in mind this is really a one sport town and that sport is hockey, National Hockey League hockey. Everything else pales in comparison.
Here is what is cool about The Team 1200. Saturday afternoon they had the Washington/Pittsburgh NHL playoff game on and allowed the full feed, with Pittsburgh local adverts and id's and everything. It felt so local on two levels, an Ottawa level and a Western Pa. level.
Here is what is random.
Sunday when the Detroit Red Wings were playing Anaheim Ducks The Team 1200 ran...no hockey, no local feed from Detroit or Anaheim, no cut ins just a talk show from either ESPN or FoxSports where they were talking about college and NFL football. One, and I am one, would think at the very least you could find some Eastern Ontario or Western Quebec motormouth who would talk about hockey for like 12 dollars an hour but noooooooooo they just run a feed from the States talking about stuff that, well, I am interested in but most in Ottawa are not.
Not hating, just stating and wondering, that's all.
WFDS
In Ottawa that means we have one country station, one all news station, one sports station etc. Our sports station is The Team 1200 and it is sooooooo random.
Please bear in mind this is really a one sport town and that sport is hockey, National Hockey League hockey. Everything else pales in comparison.
Here is what is cool about The Team 1200. Saturday afternoon they had the Washington/Pittsburgh NHL playoff game on and allowed the full feed, with Pittsburgh local adverts and id's and everything. It felt so local on two levels, an Ottawa level and a Western Pa. level.
Here is what is random.
Sunday when the Detroit Red Wings were playing Anaheim Ducks The Team 1200 ran...no hockey, no local feed from Detroit or Anaheim, no cut ins just a talk show from either ESPN or FoxSports where they were talking about college and NFL football. One, and I am one, would think at the very least you could find some Eastern Ontario or Western Quebec motormouth who would talk about hockey for like 12 dollars an hour but noooooooooo they just run a feed from the States talking about stuff that, well, I am interested in but most in Ottawa are not.
Not hating, just stating and wondering, that's all.
WFDS
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