CANADIAN RADIO NEWS –Jon Pearkins
jon@pearkins.com
All times Eastern Standard Time (EST). {sic}
690 BC Vancouver CBU
“The Weekly Hour of Francophone Music” at 0222 on Thursday, March 7th serves as a reminder that anything French on 690 does not have to be CBKF-1 Gravelbourg SK. The same is true for other CBC Radio One stations, adjusting for the local Time Zone. This has been a long time tradition on the CBC. In the 1970s, it was “Musique de chez nous” which aired with bilingual announcing on both the English and French AM networks each week, as well as many CBC affiliates. Unfortunately, it fell victim to the CRTC’s later Ruling that bilingual announcing was not allowed on Canadian radio stations.
910 AB Drumheller CKDQ
Last week, their Branding changed from Real Country to New Country, to match co-owned CFCW-FM Camrose AB.
Canadian Radio News (CRN) posts on https://radiowest.ca by Dan Sys provide much of the information for this column, with additional tips from Theo Donnelly.
IRCA DX Monitor March 16, published March 12 via WOR iog (2024-03-13)