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CKOI expands to Gatineau, T-R

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azumanga

Today, Cogeco's CKOI Hot AC format has expanded to the Ottawa Valley, with CJRC discarding the Souvenirs Garantis format in favor of CKOI:

http://www.info07.com/Culture/2011-02-14/article-2238997/CJRC-devient-CKOI-104,7/1

And next week, CHLN in Trois-Rivières will do likewise:

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-nouvelliste/arts-spectacles/201102/14/01-4370144-chln-devient-ckoi.php

(Sorry -- both articles in French.)

The future of Souvenirs Garantis doesn't bode well, as CJTS in Sherbrooke is up for sale, and CFOM in Quebec City picking up either Rythme FM or CKOI soon (Quebec City's current affiiliates, CJEC and CFEL, respectively, are both up for sale as well).
 
I bet you could probably pick up CKOI in Ottawa on a good day. It puts out 300kw ERP, its a frequent tropo log where I am near Carthage-Watertown, NY.

It sounds like CJRC and CHLN are going to run a format similar to CKOI.
 
spunker88 said:
I bet you could probably pick up CKOI in Ottawa on a good day. It puts out 300kw ERP, its a frequent tropo log where I am near Carthage-Watertown, NY.
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Yes and no. That 300 kW ERP comes from an antenna that's down much lower than the rest of the big Montreal FMs on Mont-Royal. Great for mammoth in-building penetration in the city, lousy for broad-area coverage, and relatively terrain-blocked to Ottawa...even before the local station there on 97.1 (CJLX, I believe) came on the air a few years ago to completely block it out.
 
Je suis americain et je parle francais.

CKOI is one of my fravorite francophone radio stations. I'd bet that CKOI is trying to compete against astral NRJ network.

In Quebec, majority of radio stations are regionalise like:

Astral Media: NRJ, and Rock Detente
Cogeco: Rhythme FM and CKOI FM
Radio Nord: Planet FM and Radio X
 
spunker88 said:
I bet you could probably pick up CKOI in Ottawa on a good day. It puts out 300kw ERP, its a frequent tropo log where I am near Carthage-Watertown, NY.

It sounds like CJRC and CHLN are going to run a format similar to CKOI.
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Only on the very best radios can CKOI be heard in Ottawa. I know, I live here. I've heard it during the summers, but it's a very po0r signal. The eastern Suburb of Orleans would be your most likely spot to hear it. CJLX, 97.1 does not have a very strong signal and is quite po0r downtown, being drowned out by CJLL 97.9 FM on MOST radios. Once you get near Parliament hill and across the river, you get a monster signal from CJLX. Out in the burbs, CJLX is much better. I have a CC radio plus that can get CKOI just south of downtown with tropo. I also have a Grundig G8 traveler that should have no problem at all picking it up.
 
CKOI 96.9 cannot be heard in Burlington, VT due to Planet 96.7FM. If you have a sensitive tuner such as MP3 player or car radio, then you make able to picked up C-KOI 96,9 FM.

FYI....in French, they don't use decimal for fractions, they use commas such as 96,9 or 97,3. Only time that they use decimals is if its above 1.000. Same thing as Spanish, Portuguese, talian, German, and Dutch.
 
azumanga said:
Today, Cogeco's CKOI Hot AC format has expanded to the Ottawa Valley, with CJRC discarding the Souvenirs Garantis format in favor of
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96.9 C-Koi is a CHR/Pop station, and has been one since the 80s.
 
e-dawg said:
FYI....in French, they don't use decimal for fractions, they use commas such as 96,9 or 97,3.
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Yet Cogeco has chosen to use the English method of decimalisation, which is why CKOI's new logo is rendered "CKOI 96.9" instead of "CKOI 96,9". Cogeco's Rythme FM network also prefers periods to commas -- "Rythme FM 105.7" in Montreal, for example.
 
azumanga said:
e-dawg said:
FYI....in French, they don't use decimal for fractions, they use commas such as 96,9 or 97,3.
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Yet Cogeco has chosen to use the English method of decimalisation, which is why CKOI's new logo is rendered "CKOI 96.9" instead of "CKOI 96,9". Cogeco's Rythme FM network also prefers periods to commas -- "Rythme FM 105.7" in Montreal, for example.
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Now how would that be said on air? The french version of , or . ? If it were mentioned?
Or would they say the word "point" in french?

Or do they just leave it out and say 3 numbers?
 
Yeziknoradio said:
Now how would that be said on air? The french version of , or . ? If it were mentioned?
Or would they say the word "point" in french?

Or do they just leave it out and say 3 numbers?
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Don't know about CKOI, but Rythme FM and Astral's Rock-Detente would omit the decimals in their branding when identifying themselves on-air (for example, "cent-cinq-sept Rythme FM").

Though of course, some stations in the US also tend to omit decimals as well.
 
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