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FCC Considers Whether To Let Canadian Company Buy U.S. Radio Station.

Kent said:
For some reason, I was thinking Mutt wrote and composed all of her hits. If she and Mutt co-wrote and co-composed them, her songs would qualify as Canadian under the so-called “Bryan Adams Rule.”



Here’s the problem for Canadian programmers. How many hits did those artists have? Depending on when your station was licensed and possibly when your format was launched, anywhere between 1/4 and 40% of your playlist must consist of Canadian music. Plus, what do you do once that music burns? I can only think of one Strumbellas song that gets any airplay in the US, and the only format where I ever hear it is AAA. That’s why CanCon is such a nuisance and why having a US licensed station would be a programming advantage.
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"Spirits" gets a lot of airplay there. There are several Alessia Cara hits I hear there, but generally ones that did not make it very big like "Growing Paints." The Kiesza hit "Hideaway" gets a lot of play there still on most stations, and Fefe Dobson (someone who never had any kind of airplay in the US) gets airtime too. Tegan and Sara also get airtime, with several of their songs (like "I Was a Fool" which was not very big here, except for some airtime on Hot AC in 2014). While they are smaller, most of that type of music does not seem like it would be very "off-putting" to anyone listening, as many of those songs have a very inoffensive "sound."
 
tall_guy1 said:
Tegan and Sara also get airtime, with several of their songs (like "I Was a Fool" which was not very big here, except for some airtime on Hot AC in 2014).
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You’re likely thinking of “Closer”, which had some airplay in the States. ‘I Was a Fool’, to my knowledge, was never played here.
 
tall_guy1 said:
I remember hearing it in Omaha on KQKQ.
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And how long did it last?

Tegan & Sara have always had more of their U.S. airplay/audiences on alternative, not CHR or Hot AC.

tall_guy1 said:
While they are smaller, most of that type of music does not seem like it would be very "off-putting" to anyone listening, as many of those songs have a very inoffensive "sound."
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It’s not that the songs are ‘inoffensive’ (not sure how you got that theory). It’s more or less related to testing and being indifferent to them.
 
ksradiogeek said:
And how long did it last?

Tegan & Sara have always had more of their U.S. airplay/audiences on alternative, not CHR or Hot AC.


It’s not that the songs are ‘inoffensive’ (not sure how you got that theory). It’s more or less related to testing and being indifferent to them.
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It was summer of '14, when I was there. Don't remember the exact timeframe of when it came and went. It looks like it didn't chart, so they might have been the only ones to play it. I would think the CanCon songs selected would not have a strong negative reaction at least to them and perhaps more of an "indifferent" reaction to many, as none of them have a sound like you would see on songs that have a universally negative reaction (see: songs with the lowest callout scores on proboards.)
 
Geez, nothing new, I worked for a station in Blaine 58 years ago that programmed exclusively to the Canadian market. 90% of our revenue came from across the border, and virtually all the programming was from Canadian preachers (who smuggled their recorded programs in their glove boxes).
 
tall_guy1 said:
While they are smaller, most of that type of music does not seem like it would be very "off-putting" to anyone listening, as many of those songs have a very inoffensive "sound."
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Problem is, too many “ho hum” songs tend to lead to your station being boring. Stations want to play songs that are popular with their target audiences. You can have an inoffensive song or two on your playlist, but you need hits and near hits with your target audience if you're going to build and maintain an audience.
 
I think that the station should have to adhere to Can-Con, just because the CRTC would prefer it that way. Either that, or there won't be any more hockey.
 
boombox4 said:
I think that the station should have to adhere to Can-Con, just because the CRTC would prefer it that way. Either that, or there won't be any more hockey.
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Wait, a U.S. licensed station adhere to Canadian programming requirements?? Why would they do something like that?
 
Kelly A said:
Not sure what that's all aboot.
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You never listened to Phil Hendrie, I take it. Any time there was a news story about Canada Hendrie had his voice character Rene Bouchard come onto the program, and he would complain about the horrible treatment of Canada and that if things didn't change there would be no more hockey allowed anywhere.
 
Kelly A said:
I know of him, but don't listen to 'conservative talk radio'. Too much obvious Kool Aid being dispensed.
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Hendrie wasn't and isn't conservative talk radio. He is a Democrat, and a radio comic, and when he was on in Seattle he was on the Buzz.
 
boombox4 said:
Careful there, eh. Or there won't be any more hockey. No more Molsons. And Anne Murray? Her songs will no longer be heard. No Nickelback either.
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And for the seniors here, no more Rush.
 
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