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99.9 Virgin Radio

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I went to visit some of my relatives in Buffalo this past week and as we were driving my cousin had the station tuned to 99.9 and all I can say is wow, I mean really WOW! I was literally blown away by all the artist I never heard of who in my opinion sounded a lot better than what I normally hear on our Top-40 station here in DC. Heck, it even sounds better than what I hear on satellite radio and I started questioning why I am even paying for service if FM stations like that exist, lol. ;D I know Canada has the Cancon rule which makes station play a certain percentage of Canadian artist. It seems pretty controversial, but it definitely seems to work IMO from keeping radio from sounding too stale. I almost cringe when I turn on the radio here because it sounds just that bad and it's hard to find new artist, unless you have to time to dig through the Internet.
 
Living near the Canadian border most of my life I have been listening to Canadian radio for years. I like the Cancon requirement because it has introduced me to some good artists that aren't played in the US. Most Canadian stations stream online and don't block US IPs.
 
Yeah, somehow 999 Virgin radio is pulling through with
great numbers even though there's Kiss 92 and Z103five to worry about.

I'm strictly guessing 92.5 is going to start looking for a new format soon.
 
I think Virgin should go. Toronto is too saturated with Top 40 stations. CHUM-FM does count, because they practically play the same music as a Top 40 with some old songs. Flip to AAA, hard rock, or something T-Dot is missing. KiSS, Z and Flow should stay.
 
spunker88 said:
Living near the Canadian border most of my life I have been listening to Canadian radio for years. I like the Cancon requirement because it has introduced me to some good artists that aren't played in the US. Most Canadian stations stream online and don't block US IPs.
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I agree. Cancon is a good rule, because there is a lot of great Canadian music that is not being heard down south of the border, i.e. Shawn Desman, Choclair, Keshia Chante, Jully Black, Danny Fernandes, Carly Rae Jepsen, etc.
 
ksradiogeek said:
I think Virgin should go. Toronto is too saturated with Top 40 stations. CHUM-FM does count, because they practically play the same music as a Top 40 with some old songs. Flip to AAA, hard rock, or something T-Dot is missing. KiSS, Z and Flow should stay.
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Unfortunately it's ratings that matter, not what we seem to like most.
Kiss is the third of the three (Virgin, Z, Kiss) in recent ratings. They DID
manage to refrain from falling any further, but they didn't gain any ground either.
Rogers doesn't have the patience that Evanov group maintains to sit through bad
books without changing formats.

Maybe for once, Rogers is willing to ride it out, but I doubt it. I think something new
is coming to 92.5 FM soon...I could be wrong though.
 
Yeziknoradio said:
ksradiogeek said:
I think Virgin should go. Toronto is too saturated with Top 40 stations. CHUM-FM does count, because they practically play the same music as a Top 40 with some old songs. Flip to AAA, hard rock, or something T-Dot is missing. KiSS, Z and Flow should stay.
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Unfortunately it's ratings that matter, not what we seem to like most.
Kiss is the third of the three (Virgin, Z, Kiss) in recent ratings. They DID
manage to refrain from falling any further, but they didn't gain any ground either.
Rogers doesn't have the patience that Evanov group maintains to sit through bad
books without changing formats.

Maybe for once, Rogers is willing to ride it out, but I doubt it. I think something new
is coming to 92.5 FM soon...I could be wrong though.
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True. I'm just surprised a lot of people go nuts for Top 40 in the city. LA (the city itself) is slightly bigger than Toronto, and they only have 2 Mainstream Top 40's, but that also includes 1 Rhythmic, 1 all-Old School (something Canada needs), 1 Urban AC, and 1 Rhythmic AC. Of course, the latter 3 formats would be hard to do in Canada because of CanCon. Those are formats a diverse city like the T-Dot should have.
 
Well, there won't be an all old school format, but there is a new station committed to a variety of old school and new urban sound. Flow has some competition! I guess Flow will be more new music driven while G98.7 plays more classics...or Flow just might change format...(?)
----> http://g987fm.com/
 
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