CRTC to decide what songs are hits

[chuckydoll]

Ain't nothing like the government to set up your music rotation, eh!

 

[jegrant]

Personally, I'd rather have Canadian content than all of our US junk. I specifically subscribed to Sirius radio primarily to hear CBC 3 & CBC 1. I download the CBC 3 podcasts regularly. The Canadian indie music is great, and the news is much less biased than most US networks.

I also hunt the digital cable dial to find Degrassi: TNG and Corner Gas.

IMO what they could do to increase CanCon on the radio would be to provide funding to put CBC Radio 3 on FM, across Canada. Their webstream and podcasts are 100% CanCon, and Sirius 94 is 85% CanCon.

 

[mimo]

Personally, I'd rather have Canadian content than all of our US junk. I specifically subscribed to Sirius radio primarily to hear CBC 3 & CBC 1. I download the CBC 3 podcasts regularly. The Canadian indie music is great, and the news is much less biased than most US networks.

I also hunt the digital cable dial to find Degrassi: TNG and Corner Gas.

IMO what they could do to increase CanCon on the radio would be to provide funding to put CBC Radio 3 on FM, across Canada. Their webstream and podcasts are 100% CanCon, and Sirius 94 is 85% CanCon.

I'd love to just have radio 3 on real radio..I don't care if it's AM or FM, It would be really nice if it were offered at least in the larger cities.

 

[jegrant]

Now there's an idea! Why not set up some high-powered AM transmitters in prime dial positions (which have been vacated by moves to FM) and run Radio 3 on those? The content alone might draw some younger folks back to AM.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

Now there's an idea! Why not set up some high-powered AM transmitters in prime dial positions (which have been vacated by moves to FM) and run Radio 3 on those? The content alone might draw some younger folks back to AM.

WHAT? NO! Not on my taxes!

 

[LucasNugent]

This could be big... oldies on FM, etc.

Things are so regulated now anyways, what's the difference.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

I think the CRTC is still quietly trying to protect AM radio...

 

[mjlarochelle]

I think the CRTC is still quietly trying to protect AM radio...

Oh, I don't doubt that. It's just too bad the FM dial is so small. I heard a proposal though from the FCC to drop TV Channels 5 and 6 to make more room for FM, so if that happens I would hope the CRTC relaxes its rules.

 

[cyberdad]

Well, all analog TV broadcasting in the US will cease in less than a year, so expanding the bottom of the FM band to include the current adjacent TV channels 5 and 6 wouldn't be a stretch.

 

[LucasNugent]

Well, all analog TV broadcasting in the US will cease in less than a year, so expanding the bottom of the FM band to include the current adjacent TV channels 5 and 6 wouldn't be a stretch.

I think something like that is happening in Canada too. Everything must be broadcast digital by '09 or something like that?

 

[mimo]

Well, all analog TV broadcasting in the US will cease in less than a year, so expanding the bottom of the FM band to include the current adjacent TV channels 5 and 6 wouldn't be a stretch.

I think something like that is happening in Canada too. Everything must be broadcast digital by '09 or something like that?

That's right..Analogue tv ends in September of 09. So it could be an option here.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

Well, all analog TV broadcasting in the US will cease in less than a year, so expanding the bottom of the FM band to include the current adjacent TV channels 5 and 6 wouldn't be a stretch.

I think something like that is happening in Canada too. Everything must be broadcast digital by '09 or something like that?

That's right..Analogue tv ends in September of 09. So it could be an option here.

Canada will end their analogue in March 2011, two years later.