CKDO 1580 Oshawa, ON

[raccoonradio]

Am living in Boston area and noticed a fairly strong 1580 playing oldies...just did some research and found that
it was CKDO Oshawa, ON...moved there on Aug 13 of this yr according to Wikipedia (from 1350).

Not sure if atmospheric conditions will keep giving me that strong recep or not...

http://www.ckdo.ca/

 

[mimo]

CKDO went from running 10,000 watts daytime and very reduced power night time at 1350 to 10,000 watts full time (day/night) with a directional night antenna to the east. I live in Ottawa, a go0d 4 hours from Oshawa and the signal is very go0d here, most of the time. I would think it would be even better out east as I'm just past the ground/skywave cancellation point. They are going to be doing a DX test so0n. Click on this link and scroll down a touch and there's some info on it.
http://americanbandscan.blogspot.com/

I'm glad they moved to 1580, I used to listen to them as a rocker when I lived in Toronto back in the 90's and it's nice to see an AM music station here in Canada that's STAYING on the AM band.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

I'm glad they moved to 1580, I used to listen to them as a rocker when I lived in Toronto back in the 90's and it's nice to see an AM music station here in Canada that's STAYING on the AM band.

All Oldies, with the odd exception, is still illegal on FM in Canada, so as long as the CRTC keeps that rule in place, I doubt oldies (or even classic Country, for that matter) will ever vanish from AM radio in Canada.

Some markets will flip to FM with a new format, but only because they saw more money in the new format.

In markets like Toronto, and GTA, where FM signals are too scarce, I doubt you'll see the AM music stations vanish.

(107.7 FM in Oshawa, being the CKDO repeater, is a good example of how there's no intent to shut down the AM side)

 

[mimo]

excellent points. I've noticed the 107.7 repeater and I know it's very low powered. It's signal was very po0r in the city of Oshawa as I drove through last november. I think it's primarily used to bo0st the signal into buildings where AM signals vanish somewhat so that the CKDO listeners have a place to tune to hear their music. On another note you brought up, very true that Toronto's FM dial is about as full as it can get, so none of the AM stations will be ending up there. I've heard about a couple of approved applications for new AM licenses in Toronto, one at 1690 for the Greek Community, and another at 1650 wich is actually licensed to Brampton. I heard something about Arabic programming. Do you know anything about that?

 

[Yeziknoradio]

excellent points. I've noticed the 107.7 repeater and I know it's very low powered. It's signal was very po0r in the city of Oshawa as I drove through last november. I think it's primarily used to bo0st the signal into buildings where AM signals vanish somewhat so that the CKDO listeners have a place to tune to hear their music. On another note you brought up, very true that Toronto's FM dial is about as full as it can get, so none of the AM stations will be ending up there. I've heard about a couple of approved applications for new AM licenses in Toronto, one at 1690 for the Greek Community, and another at 1650 wich is actually licensed to Brampton. I heard something about Arabic programming. Do you know anything about that?

Here's the info for 1690:
"The new station will direct its programming primarily to the Toronto area’s Greek-speaking community and will also provide ethnic programming in Armenian, Romanian, Serbian and Bulgarian, as well as in English."

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2006/db2006-117.htm

I also know 1610 is now serving the Spanish community.

I'm not sure about the Arabic station though.