Wave goodbye to 94.7 CIWV

[Mr_Planet]

From another site:

Durham Radio has announced that Smooth Jazz “94.7 The Wave” CIWV Hamilton, ON will flip to Country on Monday, August 1. The station will be branded as “KX 94.7”

I am a smooth jazz fan, and an saddened that yet another SJ station is going away. :'(

 

[cd637299]

With 95.9 Ajax already "KX," will this be a simulcast?

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[Radio_bored-Op]

wow - steele town gettin
a cowboy station!!
wonders if play, both
country and western (be a classic)
or "nu" country ?

 

[Yeziknoradio]

wow - steele town gettin
a cowboy station!!
wonders if play, both
country and western (be a classic)
or "nu" country ?

IT will most likely play the same music sister station KX 96 already plays, but NOT be a repeater.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

New website: http://www.kx947.fm/
New calls: CHKX
New local morning show: Toff & Melissa in the morning
(as in, NOT the KX 96 morning show)

all other shifts also seem to be local, and not a repeater of KX 96 at all.

Now, as for the music, I honestly don't know if they just flicked a switch and tossed on the KX 96 playlist
OR rounded up something closer to more of a Country 95.3 kind of sound.

We'll soon find out...

BTW?...What's 820 CHAM gonna do? ???

 

[klutch00]

BTW?...What's 820 CHAM gonna do? ???

I have the same question myself. I surmise they'll be gone within a year unless KX proves to be a failure or programs more current material.

 

[mjlarochelle]

BTW?...What's 820 CHAM gonna do? ???

I have the same question myself. I surmise they'll be gone within a year unless KX proves to be a failure or programs more current material.

The only thing I could see keeping CHAM on the air now is ethnic programming targeting the Hamilton-Niagara region. The population of people with mother tongue languages other than English or French in that region (including Hamilton/Burlington, Niagara Region, Brant County, and Halidimand-Norfolk) is about 19%. Aside from a small FM station in Oshweken targeting the First Nations community, there aren't any third-language radio stations in that region.

CHIN has its two Toronto stations, and now a station in Ottawa. Perhaps CHIN could create a CHIN Hamilton over CHAM 820? Could be a lucrative opportunity for CHIN or another ethnic broadcaster.

Another possibility, although far less likely, is a CBC station targeting Hamilton.

 

[Dan Sys]

There is no reason why a second News-Talk station in a market of over 700,000 shouldn't be able to survive with a decent showing in the PPM's. It just has to be "done right".

 

[Yeziknoradio]

There is no reason why a second News-Talk station in a market of over 700,000 shouldn't be able to survive with a decent showing in the PPM's. It just has to be "done right".

820 was already Talk 820, and THAT WAS done under the new Astral Media ownership, not the previous Standard radio ownership, so talk (or at least general talk) radio is not an option.

They could perhaps specialize. Talk radio for guys or something... Talk radio for women maybe? Or even go in a Sports direction...talk about why there should be a hockey team in Hamilton and see what listeners think...(if Hamilton gets a hockey team, 820 could also be the home...)