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R.I.P 1050 CHUM

azumanga said:
Yeziknoradio said:
The last *full* song was "Please release me".
Then there was a minute or two to kill, so I guess they decided to toss on half a song to kill time.

I believe they intended "Please release me" to be the last song.
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If they only had a minute or so left before the switchover, why couldn't they run an ad or a special announcement or something, instead of starting another song?

The way CTV handled this was bush league, at best.
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You just answered your own question.
 
At the risk of enraging everyone here, I actually have to give them some credit for their coverage of Earth Hour tonight. They've been known for saying "as you see here" since the AM simulcast, but tonight they made an effort to mention "for those listening on radio we're going to describe what we're showing". Although there were some "you can see..." at which I said out loud "I'm listening on the radio, I can't SEE anything." They also carried the Earth Hour concert over the air, occasionally breaking in to let us know who we were listening to. And to think we thought we'd never hear music on 1050 again. Rock solid signal here in Ottawa, actually stronger than some of the locals, according to my signal strength meter.
 
Since there is no mention of departing personalities, I must assume CHUM was running as a low cost jukebox . We in the lower 48/50 or whatever are used this from COX radio.

On another note, must be nice to have guaranteed health care for everybody and not be entangled in no-win foreign wars.
 
radioman148 said:
This may turn out to be the lowest rated 50KW station ever.
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I guess you're not familiar with 1050 in New York City, huh?
 
Sad, sad, sad.

For over 20 years of business (and leisure) trips to T-O, CHUM was usually my first car radio preset. 

But that hasn't been the case for me in years.

In my mind, CHUM has been gone for a long time.  For the last few years, to me it's sounded really awful.  I thought CKOC was doing a much better job. Not that they were anything special, but they were solid, while CHUM sounded like an absolute low-budget mess.  Right up there with CIWW for "worst excuse for a major Canadian Market oldies station".

(My usual presets now flip between CBC-2, CFTR, CKOC, and CHWO.....or whatever "zoomer's" new call letters are).

The "team" fiasco ultimately turned out not to be the end, but the beginning of the end.
 
For some reason, Business radio doesn't really work. They tried it in Buffalo for a short while before giving oldies a try. It failed miserably.

I mean, there *might* be a market or two out there somewhere where it *does* work, but if it doesn't work in a place like NYC, (where all the main stock brokers, etc. are) why would it work anywhere else?
 
MsMusicRadio said:
Since there is no mention of departing personalities, I must assume CHUM was running as a low cost jukebox .
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Yes. They had one live morning show, and the rest of the time was vt'd, except for overnights, which ran jockless.
 
Yeziknoradio said:
For some reason, Business radio doesn't really work. They tried it in Buffalo for a short while before giving oldies a try. It failed miserably.

I mean, there *might* be a market or two out there somewhere where it *does* work, but if it doesn't work in a place like NYC, (where all the main stock brokers, etc. are) why would it work anywhere else?
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I agree which makes me wonder why WBBR has stayed with this format for so long with terrible ratings.
 
radioman148 said:
I agree which makes me wonder why WBBR has stayed with this format for so long with terrible ratings.
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Hmmm....just might have something to do with a personal agenda on the part of a rich and locally powerful owner.    :)
 
This was covered in the new york boards a while back, and it's a go0d question. Sure they have very low ratings, BUT, the audience they have is VERY wealthy, it is the investors, the brokers and other wall street types who are listening. While it's a small audience the station actually makes some very serious money. Since they are getting the advertisers who want that upper end demo, which the station reaches.

I personally despise business radio, but this is the one station that works.
 
mimo said:
This was covered in the new york boards a while back, and it's a go0d question. Sure they have very low ratings, BUT, the audience they have is VERY wealthy, it is the investors, the brokers and other wall street types who are listening. While it's a small audience the station actually makes some very serious money. Since they are getting the advertisers who want that upper end demo, which the station reaches.

I personally despise business radio, but this is the one station that works.
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There's the Nasdaq and the TSX right? For the ratings they get, how much staff from each building is listening?

I would expect at least a full 1.0 share, givin that it is New York, and that *is* a lot of staff that's present in both buidings.
(and that's just those two buildings, to name one possible listener base)
 
mimo said:
This was covered in the new york boards a while back, and it's a go0d question. Sure they have very low ratings, BUT, the audience they have is VERY wealthy, it is the investors, the brokers and other wall street types who are listening. While it's a small audience the station actually makes some very serious money. Since they are getting the advertisers who want that upper end demo, which the station reaches.

I personally despise business radio, but this is the one station that works.
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Bloomberg is also carried on sirius/XM. Michael is no dummy so the station must make money even with those low numbers.
 
Now that the CRTC has somewhat relaxed the rules for Oldies-Classic Hits on FM, is there any Toronto FM that might consider a format flip?

I occasionally cume 98.1; 99.9 and Q-107, which have monster signals in my neighborhood a bit south of Buffalo. I'd like to listen to CHUM-FM more frequently, but only 400kHz away from my former station 104.1 WHTT, CHUM-FM @ 104.5 gets beat up in my neighborhood.

All the major Toronto FM signals seem to have solid and successful formats on them, so what station would take a chance at flipping to a format that's appeals largely to 45+ listeners? 92.5? Good signal in Buffalo's Northtowns, but only 400kHz away from WBUF, it gets hammered in some of the southern suburbs.
 
>>Now that the CRTC has somewhat relaxed the rules for Oldies-Classic Hits on FM, is there any Toronto FM that might consider a format flip?>>

Am I reading this correctly? Canada wouldn't allow oldies on FM?
 
radioman148 said:
>>Now that the CRTC has somewhat relaxed the rules for Oldies-Classic Hits on FM, is there any Toronto FM that might consider a format flip?>>

Am I reading this correctly? Canada wouldn't allow oldies on FM?
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Effectively true until very recently. Mimo & Yezniknoradio are far more qualified and knowledgeable to address this/elaborate on this than me. Then there's the matter of can-con....which, for whatever negatives there may have been, had the effect of making for a deeper playlist. Personally, I liked it. I speak in the past tense, because as the Canadian oldies stations have tried to update themselves, IMHO, all they've done is made a mess of themselves (by mixing genres that don't blend very well).
 
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