Now this is a station that plays GREAT music...

[oak068]

Why can't any of our local stations play this stuff? Gee...they play different Hendrix songs other than Hey Joe....PLUS...they play great stuff from the 80's etc...they play everything.

Not the same retreaded daily crap that we hear on CMF, etc...

http://www.rock101.com/ - this is based in Vancouver, BC ....

 

[Yeziknoradio]

First of all, That's Canada.
In Canada, they are forced to play 35% Can Con, so in order to keep their broadcast license, they have no choice but to sound different than a Buffalo NY station.

In simple math, a Seattle rock station can be 100% local Seattle music if it wants, but the Canadian station can only be no more than 65% music from Seattle, if it chooses to, with 35% Can Con filling the rest of the play list.

 

[RBW]

I'm not sure if it's just their 35% requirement that OAK is referencing. Thre ARE some stations (and more often than not - often found on the Canadian dial) that make it their business to be different. It could be that it's their American content that they like to shake-up a bit.

I'm sure there are probably more Canadian artists on the scene with each passing decade, which give the stations additional variety when being required to fill each hour with x number of songs. In the "olden-days" it often seemed as if it was always the same artists being heard when it was time to play a Canadian tune. So I'm thinking that there's additonal room for variety along those lines, but that they may also enjoy digging for gold in general.

Case in point is the "Wave" -- 94.7 CIWV ("Ontario's Smoothest Groove") I'm not a huge fan of the station and although technically they're "smooth jazz" ... they play waaayyy too many soulful vocals. But my point, is that even their American content is often full of cuts, from albums/artists popular on similar US stations, that NO stateside station would play. This may be the same sort of tactic taken with the Vancouver station.

Canadians like to be different when they can. ;D

 

[Yeziknoradio]

I'm not sure if it's just their 35% requirement that OAK is referencing. Thre ARE some stations (and more often than not - often found on the Canadian dial) that make it their business to be different. It could be that it's their American content that they like to shake-up a bit.


Case in point is the "Wave" -- 94.7 CIWV ("Ontario's Smoothest Groove") I'm not a huge fan of the station and although technically they're "smooth jazz" ... they play waaayyy too many soulful vocals. But my point, is that even their American content is often full of cuts, from albums/artists popular on similar US stations, that NO stateside station would play. This may be the same sort of tactic taken with the Vancouver station.

Canadians like to be different when they can. ;D

Wave 94.7 is a Tax write off, and nothing more. Therefore, they are a poor example.

 

[heydaybegone]

Canadians like to be different when they can.

Do ya think? ;D

Actually..it's not a bad thing, in the BIG picture!!

I'll leave that to the "thinkers" on this board. The wisdom will surface!

HDBG

 

[justmebuk]

Wave 94.7 is owned by the Durham Group... the same folks that give David Marsden the freedom to program 10 hours on Sat & Sunday without any corperate interference. Wave is another example of them doing something a little different tan the rest of the crowd.

 

[RBW]

Wave 94.7 is a Tax write off, and nothing more. Therefore, they are a poor example.

Perhaps for the benefit of those of us who are less informed than yourself, could you elaborate on your statement and explain why your comment has any bearing on my comparison.

 

[oak068]

First of all, That's Canada.
In Canada, they are forced to play 35% Can Con, so in order to keep their broadcast license, they have no choice but to sound different than a Buffalo NY station.

In simple math, a Seattle rock station can be 100% local Seattle music if it wants, but the Canadian station can only be no more than 65% music from Seattle, if it chooses to, with 35% Can Con filling the rest of the play list.

You guys are completely missing the point here.The average listener could give a shit about %'s of this and that!!!

THey want to hear different stuff by the bands that are played day in day out and different things from different era's.

So who cares if its 35% this or that....the bottom line is that the rest of the 70% or 65% of music is not the same beaten down shit we hear constantly....

The radio stations here don't seem to want to change. So guess what...with live streaming, we can now listen to the stations that play what we want to hear.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

Wave 94.7 is a Tax write off, and nothing more. Therefore, they are a poor example.

Perhaps for the benefit of those of us who are less informed than yourself, could you elaborate on your statement and explain why your comment has any bearing on my comparison.

They had the chance to go Country when Hamilton's 95.3 changed their format, but they didn't.
They're no stranger to Country, as they already own KX 96 (in Ajax/Oshawa Ontario), a sister station to Durham radio inc's CKGE 94.9 FM (94.9 the Rock in Oshawa Ontario)
Country was bringing in better numbers than Wave was, and 820 was still doing talk radio at the time.
There was a better hole in the market to fill, and they left things to be.

They're not being "different" they're being tax break for the company.
(also, one of the few "little guys" left in Canada.)

 

[turmoil1000]

First of all, That's Canada.
In Canada, they are forced to play 35% Can Con, so in order to keep their broadcast license, they have no choice but to sound different than a Buffalo NY station.

In simple math, a Seattle rock station can be 100% local Seattle music if it wants, but the Canadian station can only be no more than 65% music from Seattle, if it chooses to, with 35% Can Con filling the rest of the play list.

You guys are completely missing the point here.The average listener could give a shit about %'s of this and that!!!

THey want to hear different stuff by the bands that are played day in day out and different things from different era's.

So who cares if its 35% this or that....the bottom line is that the rest of the 70% or 65% of music is not the same beaten down shit we hear constantly....

The radio stations here don't seem to want to change. So guess what...with live streaming, we can now listen to the stations that play what we want to hear.

i agree with you oak, they're all missing the point. you just want to hear great music and for the radio station to use the power of their HUGE music library intead of skynard 3 times a day. i get it and i couldn't agree more. i used to listen to the drive here in rochester because the alt. from the late 80's- 90's are my favorites. i also love to listen to new music and i know they don't have any live dj's but they barely play ANY new music. in rochester i pretty much only listen to 88.5 anymore because they play some new AAA music. i listen to wqkl 107.1 out of ann arbor when on the net but wish that clearchannel would get their collective heads out of their asses and use the whole music library instead of a couple hundred songs.

 

[GeorgeKramer]

Swing 1270 AM. Give it a listen for a few days. You'll fall in love with the music. Great format, especially with Humble Harv's voice doing intros of certain songs. Really well done.