Look out WYRK?

[Yeziknoradio]

WYRK will soon have competition...from Canada.

The station will broadcast @ 89.1 FM. The funny part is, it's the same owner that currently owns 91.7 FM.
91.7 used to be a country station.

Here's what the CRTC is saying:

13. In the Commission’s view, consumers in the region would benefit from the addition of a new radio service since the proposed Country music format for the new station would attract an audience that is different from that for the mainstream services operated by Bell and Vista. Moreover, the proposed station would likely draw a share of its listenership from a repatriation of out-of-market tunings directed to the U.S. Country station WYRK-FM Buffalo.
The Commission considers that this would mitigate the impact the proposed service could have on the tunings of the stations operating in the region and limit the financial impact on these services.
14. In light of the above, the Commission finds that the proposed station would have a limited financial impact on other stations in the region.

Source: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2014/2014-345.htm

 

[Element9]

This proposed station may draw a few Canadian listeners away from WYRK, but its signal will be low power and limited. Put it this way: WYRK is an 18 wheeler rolling down the 190 at 60 mph (100 km/hr.) The new Canadian country station is a sand fly.

 

[TheBigA]

Seems to me the Canadian content rules aren't going to help that station fight WYRK. Shania Twain doesn't even qualify as Canadian content.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

Seems to me the Canadian content rules aren't going to help that station fight WYRK. Shania Twain doesn't even qualify as Canadian content.

Funny, I was thinking the same thing. A lot of the best Country music is American.

 

[TheBigA]

I mean, Paul Brandt is a great guy, very popular in Alberta, but not so much in Buffalo.

 

[Unregistered]

putting a country station on 89.1 won't affect wyrk's listernship in the least....because SUNY Brockport's 89.1 the point is already broadcasting on that frequency. Unlike most radio outlets based on college campuses WBSU is run like a professional station, and its signal is remarkably strong....reaching as far west as barker and akron....i'm willing to bet that the signal from the seymour college union and WBSU in brockport will chew up this new canadian country station's signal quality in 90% of wny...

 

[Yeziknoradio]

I mean, Paul Brandt is a great guy, very popular in Alberta, but not so much in Buffalo.

How about other Canadian Country artists?
http://topcountry.ca/top-country-charts-july-2-2014/

 

[chas108]

I've long felt most Can-Con Country is an inferior product. Sorry.

And is Shania (obviously an exception to my sentiment) ineligible now?

If they have to fill their list with a bunch of Can-Con, I'd find it hard to see them as more than the Niagara Frontier's version of CKLW in their final days.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

I've long felt most Can-Con Country is an inferior product. Sorry.

And is Shania (obviously an exception to my sentiment) ineligible now?

If they have to fill their list with a bunch of Can-Con, I'd find it hard to see them as more than the Niagara Frontier's version of CKLW in their final days.

M.A.P.L. is what Canada uses to determine Can Con. I think Shinia still qualifies if she wrote the song and sings it live in Canada... (something like that)
What happened to cause her not to qualify?

 

[TheBigA]

What happened to cause her not to qualify?

She didn't write or record in Canada.

 

[Ian March]

Doesn't matter *where* she wrote anything, so long as *she* wrote it, but she just co-wrote many of her songs and had them produced outside of the country, so they don't quite get 2/4.

Same with one of Bryan Adams' biggest hits; "Everything I Do" isn't Cancon.