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Driving Under The Influence Of CHQM.....

TVradioguru said:
Uh............................. Wait.......... Nope, i don't get it...

Must be good stuff there eh Bong?
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Must be....this clip irrefutably proves they've reached some brand new level of potentcy up there, one so strong, you can actually listen to adult contemporary radio with a car full of your friends and no one complains at all.....
 
Hmmmm, those kids have got to be from Surrey (our reputed braindead suburb). I tried to find an equivalent You Tube clip of kids in your fair city grooving to the sounds of Warm 106.9, but wasn't successful.
 
Dan said:
Hmmmm, those kids have got to be from Surrey (our reputed braindead suburb). I tried to find an equivalent You Tube clip of kids in your fair city grooving to the sounds of Warm 106.9, but wasn't successful.
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Maybe it's the herb or maybe that CHQM's jingles are way more singable between songs than KRWM's. All I know is about a month ago I had gotten rammed in the passenger side door by some dude and his buddies exiting the parking lot of Boomer's as I was going home (w/WA plates on his car.) Not sure if it was an herbage or David Archuleta induced brain-fog he was under, all I knew was I heard the ending of the song, followed by a QM jingle (which he was quietly singing along to while exiting his car - I'm NOT making that up.) after we pulled over to deal with it. I mentioned this to a friend of mine up in New West yesterday and she send me back an e-mail with the YouTube link and the words "IT'S A CRISIS!!"
 
Did y'all notice the people in that video also seemed to be all over the road....Maybe we need a new campaign: "If you drive, DON'T listen to QMFM".
 
Dan said:
I tried to find an equivalent You Tube clip of kids in your fair city grooving to the sounds of Warm 106.9, but wasn't successful.
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It doesn't help that "Warm" like so many stations is Delilah at night. All the same sound everywhere! :'(

I actually don't think QMFM is too bad, maybe those laws about playing over 50% non "hits" have something to do with it. (can anyone explain that, I read it on the Canada board but have no context - it does seem to make broader radio, though)
 
The hit non hit rule goes back a couple of decades and was put in place to protect AM top 40 stations. The general rule was that FM stations could only play a hit song 49% of the time, meaning that slightly more than half the music had to be non hits. Playing a song that was a hit was counted only once, and you had to actually play 800 DIFFERENT song titles in a week. 49% again being a hit song. A song was only a hit for 2 years after it first hit the top 40 charts. There was a national chart that each AM top 40 station reported to. A song had to chart on every one of them to be considered a hit. As a result of this, a piece of interesting trivia emerged. Corey Hart's "Sundglasses At Night" was never considered a hit song in Canada because 630 CHED in Edmonton never charted it. An interesting fate for an artist so important to AM radio back in the 80's. Since AM top 40 went away, the non-hit rule was never rescinded. As a result of the non-hit rule, you'd often hear songs that were either brand new, 10 years old or just crap. Even today, if you listen to the hit music stations from Canada, you hear a lot of old songs, and that's to satisfy the non-hit rule.

As an aside, I once called up CFFR 660 radio in Calgary and asked them to play Aldo Nova's "Fantasy". The dj told me that the station couldn't play to0 many "album cuts" and even though the song was a hit, it was to0 old and had lost the "hit song" status, and said I'd be better off calling an FM station.
 
"Fantasy" Aldo Nova is a bona fide oldie (and even harder for me, a person who bought the album in Canada on the day of it's release to admit that.) But it's still a song, like "FM" Steely Dan or "Moving In Stereo/All Mixed Up" The Cars, that AM rarely plays.
 
Bongwater.....your knowledge of Canadian music and radio blows me away. The influence of that "retarded giant to the north" (as National Lampoon once pegged us) on U.S. border towns seems like it can be quite significant. CKLW 800 in Windsor being Detroit's #1 Top 40 station for a couple of decades is a pretty good example. Kind of bucks the trend most Canadians think that the "Yanks" control us.

You remind me of another radio freak David Critchfield, also from Bellingham that I had the pleasure of meeting and going out for a few brews with on several occasions in the 80's & 90's. David had an incredible knowledge of Vancouver radio and Canadian music in general, plus he had the most comprensive aircheck collection that I ever saw. Unfortunately David passed away about 4 or 5 years ago.
 
Dan said:
Bongwater.....your knowledge of Canadian music and radio blows me away. The influence of that "retarded giant to the north" (as National Lampoon once pegged us) on U.S. border towns seems like it can be quite significant. CKLW 800 in Windsor being Detroit's #1 Top 40 station for a couple of decades is a pretty good example. Kind of bucks the trend most Canadians think that the "Yanks" control us.

You remind me of another radio freak David Critchfield, also from Bellingham that I had the pleasure of meeting and going out for a few brews with on several occasions in the 80's & 90's. David had an incredible knowledge of Vancouver radio and Canadian music in general, plus he had the most comprensive aircheck collection that I ever saw. Unfortunately David passed away about 4 or 5 years ago.
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You'd be surprised at how many American jocks and radio people in general who grew up along the border were influenced by Canadian jocks and stations and how OFFENDED we are when some smart ass American belittles the Canadian contributions to the fabric that makes GREAT radio. It is ENORMOUS. Red Robinson ALONE is proof of that.

And yes, the music. You just weren't anybody if you didn't rock out to Aldo Nova in 1982. And who could forget Platinum Blonde? Or Lee Aaron, April Wine, Toronto, Headpins, Chilliwack, Max Webster, Gowan, 54-40, The Tragically Hip, Saga, Triumph, Rush, Loverboy and a jillion other superstars from Up North

Remember, it was Vancouver that brought Heart into the rock-n-roll spotlight back in '75 at a time when Seattle couldn't care less.

And CFOX and LG-73 were mandatory listening for kids on both sides of the border. It was almost as if the border wasn't even there. There were always woods and hidden areas we went through without bothering customs to get to our friends on either side to go to parties and concerts or shopping in Vancouver. Then they got overrun by dope smugglers and the fun went out of that.

Vancouver radio played an important part in my musical taste and still does. I still like CFOX (a MUCH different station now than 25 years ago) and good old LG-73 is all but a memory at 730 kHz and a tribute station online http://www.lg73.ca/ . But Canadian radio is still COOL.....
 
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