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by ChrisWL1980
Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:10 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: Global Sarnia-Oil Springs
Replies: 47
Views: 3370

Re: Global Sarnia-Oil Springs

I believe CFPL was carried on cable in parts of the Thumb. I don’t think it is now. The TVO Windsor repeater was on cable in some Metro systems. It may still be in isolated spots. I don’t believe CBEFT was on any Michigan system at any point. Same goes for CHWI and CHCH (the latter does, or did, ma...
by ChrisWL1980
Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: Global Sarnia-Oil Springs
Replies: 47
Views: 3370

Re: Global Sarnia-Oil Springs

Global was not carried in the Free Press TV listings in the '80s, although CKCO 42 was. IIRC, it had a similar footprint in Michigan both OTA and cable. CHBX 2 (still in analog) has never been on cable in the Michigan Sault (although it was at one time carried in Newberry and Rogers City). CJIC 5 (C...
by ChrisWL1980
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:18 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: Global Sarnia-Oil Springs
Replies: 47
Views: 3370

Re: Global Sarnia-Oil Springs

I remember watching the Care Bears on Saturday morning in the late '80s on channel 29 from my grandparents' house in Romeo. It came in quite well with their outdoor antenna. If it's gone, that's the end of local OTA TV in Sarnia/Port Huron, with CKCO 42 and the CBC/SRC Toronto repeaters long gone. I...
by ChrisWL1980
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:00 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: 580 CKWW sold to owner of 102.3 CINA-FM
Replies: 14
Views: 2835

Re: 580 CKWW sold to owner of 102.3 CINA-FM

CKLW was a popular music station into the early '80s so it doesn't surprise me that the CKWW format has included some early '80s. During the first attempt at a "Big 8" style oldies revival on 93.9 in the late '80s, they played Whitney Houston. As for WPON, I have heard them play songs as recent as "...
by ChrisWL1980
Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:44 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: Now, this is weird! (involves 91.3 WGTE)
Replies: 13
Views: 1584

Re: Now, this is weird! (involves 91.3 WGTE)

WGTE makes it to the Lansing area frequently during tropo, as does 103.7 WCKY. Not too hard since the closest nearby stations on the frequency are WCSG and flea-powered WOES.
by ChrisWL1980
Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:58 pm
Forum: Broadcasting - General
Topic: The History of UHF Television
Replies: 7
Views: 1062

Re: The History of UHF Television

Not sure about CBEFT, but there was a station (also French-language) in the Ottawa market in the '70s that lost its license for airing softcore adult films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFVO-TV Meanwhile, CITY-TV in Toronto had the late-night "Baby Blue Movies" and faced an obscenity charge for it ...
by ChrisWL1980
Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Tropospheric ducting on Saturday 2/3
Replies: 29
Views: 2414

Re: Tropospheric ducting on Saturday 2/3

Nothing new received in Whitmore Lake but it was still nice to have a tropo opening so early in the year. Some highlights: 88.5 Smile FM (WCTP) from the Thumb 90.3 WBLV Twin Lake 91.3 WCSG 94.1 WHST from the Thumb 95.7 WLHT 95.9 FM96 London 97.3 WMEE Fort Wayne 100.5 WSGW-FM 100.9 CBC Radio 1 Wingha...
by ChrisWL1980
Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:33 am
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: 1090am WCAR
Replies: 31
Views: 4463

Re: 1090am WCAR

With so many Beautiful Music stations in Detroit at that time and most of them being FM Stereo operations, how they thought a 250-watt AM station could compete with that is beyond me. WQTE had the advantage of being at a low dial position and getting into the format before the market was heavily FM ...
by ChrisWL1980
Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: 1090am WCAR
Replies: 31
Views: 4463

Re: 1090am WCAR

My great-aunt was an avid WTAK listener, except for Paul Winter who was a bit too liberal for her. (To illustrate how much better the station got out at that time: she lived in St. Clair Shores.) Winter, of course, was a former WXYZ radio personality and went on to be the voice of WTVS 56 for many y...
by ChrisWL1980
Wed Jan 24, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: La Nueva Playa 93.5 Detroit
Replies: 4
Views: 1160

Re: La Nueva Playa 93.5 Detroit

Fifth format, I think. The first was K-Love, then Praise Network, then The Roar, then Podcast and now Playa. Unless I'm missing something. Salsa music is actually more popular in Mexico than many people realize. Its audience is primarily in the bigger cities, however, and I would assume most Spanish...
by ChrisWL1980
Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:45 pm
Forum: Music Musings
Topic: Melanie ("Brand New Key") dead at 76
Replies: 10
Views: 552

Melanie ("Brand New Key") dead at 76

Melanie Safka's biggest hits included the #1 "Brand New Key" from late 1971 and the Top 10 "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" (inspired by her experience at Woodstock) with the Edwin Hawkins Singers from 1970. She had recently been working on a new album. https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-peop...
by ChrisWL1980
Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:33 am
Forum: Music Musings
Topic: Mary Weiss (The Shangri-Las) R.I.P.
Replies: 6
Views: 258

Mary Weiss (The Shangri-Las) R.I.P.

Lead singer of the girl group with three Top 10 hits in the mid-'60s, including the #1 "Leader of the Pack." She was 75.
https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/2024-01-19 ... s-has-died
by ChrisWL1980
Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:21 am
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: No Detroit CHR from 1994-98?
Replies: 26
Views: 2947

Re: No Detroit CHR from 1994-98?

On the subject of slogans, I seem to recall that both WDRQ and WKQI used the slogan "Today's Best Music" simultaneously for a very short time circa 1997. That happened after DRQ dropped the "Detroit's Dance Music" tagline and added some Modern AC product to sound a little more like a mainstream CHR ...
by ChrisWL1980
Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:40 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: No Detroit CHR from 1994-98?
Replies: 26
Views: 2947

Re: No Detroit CHR from 1994-98?

Technically, Detroit's period without a mainstream CHR station began at the end of 1992, when 99.5 The Fox disappeared in favor of Wow-FM (and later WYCD). WHYT reported as a mainstream CHR (as Radio & Records didn't have a Rhythmic panel yet), but they were straight up Rhythmic/Churban, not dissimi...
by ChrisWL1980
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: Weather reporting
Replies: 239
Views: 31823

Re: Weather reporting

Reminds me of the comment sections on the 9/11 videos I watch. It's either: *anchor stays calm and says they don't want to assume anything* "Oh my GOD how did they not know it was terrorism!?!? I knew it right away! Ugh! Stupid media!" Or "Oh if this happened today the anchors would be beside thems...