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Originally Posted by Pinner
We only had AM for top 40, try and comprehend that.
107 was the first top 40 fm or top 107 (I think) dusty in here, cof cof 
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As always, when something stupid happens in the broadcasting industry, you can blame the CRTC for that one. They used to have something called the Gold to Hits Ratio (or something like that), which meant only a limited percentage of an FM station's schedule could be "Hit" music, which meant it was virtually impossible to program a true "Top 40" station on FM. This is why the FM stations were Classic Rock and Album Oriented Rock and other formats other than Top 40.
It was an artificial and arbitrary thing designed to protect AM music stations from becoming obsolete.
The rule was relaxed/repealed in the mid-90s, which paved the way for Power 107 to come to Calgary.
There also used to be a weird "spoken word" requirement for FM stations, which is why Sex with Sue was originally created. Other stations would throw a talk show or something on the air Sunday nights at 11pm (the spoken word requirement had to be met between 6am and midnight). Country 105 used to run the "Country 105 Comedy Hour", where they'd play old comedy albums from guys like Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart. It was actually pretty good.