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

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "agp" <agp2176 at verizon.net>
> 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.
>
 And when I was planning my move to Toronto/Canada...but had NOT
yet done so...I used to listen to "740 AM" just to become aware of
what I might encounter when I made that move...?!

> 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

This in turm takes us headlong into the Toronto mayoral race! The many
supporters of Rob Ford are hoping for a "Torinto like it used to 
be"...totally
free of n*****rs, "Pakis" and similar undesirables...?! The idea/dream is 
that
the folks out in the "boondocks" are ALL caucasian...Anglo-Saxon...and
regularly attend Christian (presumably Protestant?!) church services...?!

This in turn is the demographic that the CBC is trying to AVOID 
attracting...?!
CBC serves as a "horrible example" for the Sun-reader, Ford-supporting
"Give us an Ontario like the one I remember [or could have remembered?!]
demographic?!" These folks tend to listen to "new country" (70's rock with
fiddle and pedal steel added so it is "country?!") on US radio stations! 
They
hope for/dream of an Ontario like the one they either dimly remember, or
were told (near as they remember?!) USED to exist back around 1950 or
so...a "dream world" where one saw only WHITE faces/folks on the streets...
and others KNEW their place and STAYED there...!

Comment ca va...?!

Steven C. Barr



> 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
>
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