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how long willl Moses likely keep music on am740 ?
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Do you have any facts to back that up? AM 740 does flirt with talk radio from time to time.
Why do that at all if music is the future?
Gotta love the rumors! Moses (owner of AM 740) plans to buy Sun TV, fine tune it (hint: be less right wing) and repeat the channel on AM 740.
I'm not sure how true any of this is, except for the fact that Moses is serious about buying Sun TV. (and if he does he will not support a right wing news format)
If all comes true, I hope Moses took notes from CP24 radio! lol
Talks to buy Sun TV: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...alks-to-buy-sun-news-network/article22034115/
Just shut up about music on AM
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I swear somepeople and you're not a member here
Thank you Mario. And while 740 has aired talk shows...they only air during times of low listening. The station takes advantage of it's huge nighttime signal and has been tweaking the music over the past year. The station's original audience has all but died off, and they've been updating the music to keep people tuned in. Keep in mind that AM was a source of music in Canada well into the 90's. The younger end of the demo (35 plus) did grow up with music on AM...I should know. I'm 39, and I grew up with top forty AM radio. The station does well in the ratings and is not the only AM music station doing well in Canada...check out ratings for CFCW or CKRM. There are a lot of FM's that would kill for the ratings those two get...and there are a lot of FM's that would kill for 740's cume.
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If I had low listening 11am-1PM Monday-Friday I'd want a format change!
Talk radio IS the change that was made!
Ratings? Hello? Did they go up? The show is still there. (Goldhawk Fights Back) It did not go back to music.
Has aired? They still do! and 11am-1PM Monday-Friday is low listening? (It was 10 AM, but they restored music 10-11AM)
I wonder what 740's numbers would look like if they tried to bring back the CHUM 105 oldies format. Then again, I don't really know anything about CFZM's numbers as an adult standards radio station, either.
Remember that stations in Canada are licensed to do a specific format. Any change requires approval by the regulatory body they report to. At the moment, 740 is licensed for exactly the format they have.
I don't think the CRTC is holding many restrictions on AM radio anymore.
I do know that it is still illegal for FM to go all news, talk or sports in Canada, (with few exceptions in select markets) '
but isn't AM is a little more free to go from standards to oldies on AM?
What the AM stations still can not do is go from Standards or Oldies to multicultural. That's the exact point where a whole new broadcast licence is required.
Radio stations can change format without CRTC approval with one exception. A station can't go from a general format to a specialty one. A station can flip from rock to country, but can't go to jazz, news, newstalk, classical or ethnic...or non-commercial without said approval. 740 could flip to oldies tomorrow if they wanted to and do so without altering too much of their overall playlist.
I did not know this had changed. I have seen where new stations have to prove viability and that they will not affect existing ones, and where approval seemed to be needed to change from French to English and back, and of course the issues involving multicultural stations. I guess I assumed that the other format restrictions still held force... such as the past one on Top 40 on AM only and such.
That's what I get for not continuing to subscribe to Broadcaster.
You are right. This is another factor, especially in smaller markets or over saturated ones, that introducing a new service would have to prove viable or not to harm the financial health of the rest of the market. Each station when applying for a license has to indicate what format they wish to use, language, viability, etc. But as far as changing, unless it's a specialty format, then they can change when they wish. Some stations even lie when applying for changes, like flipping from AM to FM saying they'll keep the format, but as soon as they switch on the transmitter, suddenly that AM country station is now an FM hot AC...and AM listeners are wondering why they're suddenly hearing an FM simulcast of a station with a different format during the 90 day simulcast period. Remember here in Ottawa we just had CKKL flip from Classic Hits Bob FM to Country 94, without CRTC approval.
Yikes, I have to fall half a penny short of supporting that as a great example.
Yes, it's true and accurate, but that market still has to play 49% non hits, and there may still be some other strict restrictions applied to the Ottawa market that do not apply to the rest of the Country.
Therefore, instead of Country, just any other format may present complications, especially any non current hit format, since Canadian hits that are new (ie Canadian Country hits) can be counted as non hits for up to one year when the song is brand new.
Therefore, restrictions are still alive and well for Ottawa.
(I'm guessing Boom FM Ottawa gets by by playing a lot of the same Canadian classic hits over and over again)
As for What Mr. Eduardo has pointed out, yes there are still strict restrictions for new licences, and no, AM 740 is not maintaining a "specialty" licence currently, so they're free to go all oldies in a heart beat. (Multicultural is counted as "specialty", so that won't happen)
For now though, it looks like "tweaking" is the quick fix for AM 740, "90's at 9" and all...
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^^I meant to delete that. That would be their 35-40% Can con issue which applies across the country.
I'm not sure what the classic hit stations are doing to survive the 49% non hit rule in the Ottawa market.
Very true. Look at what happened with CHHR 104.3 in Vancouver when they flipped to classic hits.
One thing I remember back during the non hit FM days nationally was that remixes, extended 12 inch singles and the full album versions of songs didn't count as hits. It had to be the same mix as the 45 rpm single. Remember Eyes Without A Face by Billy Idol. There was one line in the song removed for the single...so FM stations could play that if they wanted to play the song. I remember Calgary's FM 96 had remixes of songs that sounded very different from AM 106 musically. There were ways to play hit songs without actually playing hit songs. The rule was well written enough that it was clear. If there were 12 different versions of a song..the AM would play the single version and maybe the 12 inch versions from time to time, and FM radio (if they would even touch the artist) would play the other 11 versions. There were a lot of popular artists that FM wouldn't touch back then....which was why I didn't touch FM back in the 80's.
It was really bad out west.
Boom plays quite a few Canadian tracks on a regular basis, but also quite a few "oh my god I forgot that song even existed" tracks. They've been playing the full catelogue from One To One..which had an Ottawa connection as their singer was from here. How about 8 second's Kiss You When It's Dangerous. I had never heard that song on FM until they started playing it. They tend to also play different mixes of songs...some shorter and some longer than the single version.
It was really bad out west.
Boom plays quite a few Canadian tracks on a regular basis, but also quite a few "oh my god I forgot that song even existed" tracks. They've been playing the full catelogue from One To One..which had an Ottawa connection as their singer was from here. How about 8 second's Kiss You When It's Dangerous. I had never heard that song on FM until they started playing it. They tend to also play different mixes of songs...some shorter and some longer than the single version.
Not true. Only if the station holds a specialty license. The vast majority of stations in Canada can flip formats to whatever they want without seeking CRTC approval.
That's also incorrect. No matter how much a specific AM or FM seems to be struggling with their current format, they can not go specialty or Multicultural without CRTC approval.
1220 CHSC is a good example.
They were not a "specialty licence" radio station.
They decided to go "Radio Uno".
There was also objection from various sources (Evanov radio group to name one, owner of AM 530, a multicultural station)
1220 CHSC lost their broadcast licence because they refused to restore 1220 CHSC properly as a local station to St. Catharines Ontario with the original format, or at least a proper English language format.
Good luck to them as an online station now, where they'll be free to do whatever the (you know what) they want!! lol >> http://www.1220chsc.ca/
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