Sale of Windsor's CKWW in the works

[rugratsonline]

There is considerable overlap of WJR 760 and WTOR 770, but it is over Canada and there isn't much WJR can do.

I drove from Michigan to Toronto on a road trip in 1999, and I was able to tune in to WJR until I got into the western outskirts of the GTA, when interference began obliterating the signal. Of course, it would be many years later until I found out that WTOR existed.

[edj]

I was driving through Toronto last year en route to Montreal. My experience was about the same.

CKWW comes in decent as far as London. For 500 watts the signal does well north and east of the transmitter. West and south are the nulls.

[Deleted User 16144]

There is considerable overlap of WJR 760 and WTOR 770, but it is over Canada and there isn't much WJR can do.

I drove from Michigan to Toronto on a road trip in 1999, and I was able to tune in to WJR until I got into the western outskirts of the GTA, when interference began obliterating the signal. Of course, it would be many years later until I found out that WTOR existed.

When I travel to Port Huron, WTOR’s signal starts coming in and at times it’s not bad to detect. I would think that it would be covering the east coastline of Michigan’s Thumb.

[radioandtventhusiast]

I always wonder if 580 does indeed flip to an ethnic format, could CKLW run an oldies format on a part-time basis like weekends? It seems like it's either brokered shows or reruns of their regular weekday shows quite a bit of the time.

[Deleted User 16144]

I always wonder if 580 does indeed flip to an ethnic format, could CKLW run an oldies format on a part-time basis like weekends? It seems like it's either brokered shows or reruns of their regular weekday shows quite a bit of the time.

Don’t know if the CRTC would go for that. That could call for a change in licensing. Also the fact that the CRTC always had it in for CK back in the day, even though that was 50 years ago.

[Marcus]

The possible sale has just been mentioned in the Hamilton Newspaper. If approved, Neeti P. Ray hopes to take control of the three radio stations by April.

https://www.thespec.com/business/hamilt ... ee10b.html

[Deleted User 16144]

Marcus, what do think will happen? Will 580 remain Oldies for a while or go Ethnic soon after the ownership change?

[edj]

Interesting how ethnic programming isn’t mentioned for either Hamilton station.

[Marcus]

One of the radio stations might play music during the daytime and have multilingual programming in the evenings. This is what CFMS in Markham does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFMS-FM