[78-L] 78-L mail should be normal now ^

[agp]

At 03:43 26/09/2010, SB wrote:
>It should be noted in passing that the dubious decision of our Canadian
>Broadcasting "Corporation" to abandon their treaty-granted "clear
>channel" AM frequency deprived countless Ontarians of hearing the
>programming for which their taxes had paid...?!
>
>99.1 FM has an approximate range of 100 miles or less...which does
>NOT include much/most of northern Ontario...?! OTOH, 740 AM
>(now passing through a series of content-free broadvasters!) was
>receivable in ALL of Ontario...in fact, much of North America!

Back when CBL/ 740 was up and perking I used to listen to it every 
night here in Pittsburgh.

Don't get me started on how CBC has totally screwed up Radio One. 
Ooops. Looks like you have so I'll vent. I speak solely of Radio One 
in Toronto, but other's mileage may be the same. The programming has 
become so Toronto-cenetric, that CBC on 99.1 (and its southern 
Ontario repeaters) has no relevance to a labourer or farmer  out in 
Haldeman county for example. Programmes like Here and now and Metro 
Morning focus solely on Toronto issues and the 'arts' coverage is 
decidedly 'urban'. I can't imagine that a blue collar worker out in 
Tilsonburg really cares about hip-hop music in Toronto.

My cellphone has an app that allows me to listen to CBC here in 
Pittsburgh. The other morning I was listening  to Metro Morning while 
on the bus to work. They played a psuedo-jazz rendition of a the song 
Sunshine Superman originally done by Donovan. The female singer 
seemed to doing it in one time signature and all the instrumentalists 
in another. The one instrumental solo sounded like a prime example of 
Stan Freberg's line "that's close enough for jazz."  Host Matt 
Galloway gushed over how great this track was. Maybe to someone who 
lives in the high-rise jungle along Lakeshore Drive who pretentiously 
sips their Starbuck's lattes it was, but any one outside the GTA it 
was a filler to the 6.30 AM newscast

When Radio One loses the pretence and does stuff like 'Rewind', which 
delves in CBC archives for snips and music from CBC's  past (78 
content here!), it does suceed.


>I have no idea if CBC has set up an array of FM "repeater stations"
>to attempt to recreate the wide range of 740 AM after sunset...?!

Yes they have, but there are still holes in the coverage. Between 
Parry Sound and Sudbury is along the 400/ highway 69 is and example.

T