• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Is CIWW '1310 News' ?

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

Was DXing idly, late last night, on the Grundig S450 .... the usual scan of a 100 kHz section ..... and the loudest signal between 1300 and 1400 was '1310 News', with many mentions of Ontario.

Of course, since I tuned in at 33 past the hour, a legal ID was thoroughly out of the question before the inevitable fade.

Radio-Locator indeed lists CIWW as 1310 News. But R-L also has their nighttime pattern as appearing not very Coal-Country-PA friendly. R-L also lists another Candian station, near Montreal, as 'unknown format'.

I'm 99% convinced enough to enter CIWW as a new log for the collection. But I'm also hesitant until the 1% is cleared up. The station with the unknown format -- CHGB : What exactly, if anything, do they program?
CIWW's pattern shows them covering more of Quebec than they do Ontario.

Has anyone hear heard CIWW lately ?
 
CIWW pounds into Michigan and are frequently one of my 'first in, last out' stations during skywave in the winter months.

Radio-Locator can't be counted on when it comes to Canadian stations. Many of their Canadian stations listed have been silent for years.

I'd say you 99.9% had Ottawa. But it's your logbook, so log them only when you're ready.

Good DX'ing!
 
Yes, 1310 News is CIWW - and CHGB has been dark for years.

Friends don't let friends use R-L for Canadian listings. As I think I've now said here and elsewhere 100 times now, R-L gets its Canadian listings from the FCC, and the Canadian listings in the FCC exist only to tell US licensees what they need to protect with respect to Canada. They are not, and are not intended to be, accurate reflections of what's really on the air north of the border.
 
Unless its an unpopular or rural station, the Wikipedia entries are usually kept up to date. CIWW abandoned its oldies music format a few years ago. Music formats and even AM stations themselves have been dropping like flies in Canada in the last several years.
 
1310 CIWW is the only station at that frequency in this part of Canada and is indeed all news and is station I listen to every day at least twice a day.
 
Last edited:
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom