Cjay 92 finally being killed?

[Prototype]

The guy who will be running X is the guy who has been, up until now, running Q107. His forte is alternative rock, and had his hands tied with the classic rock format. I think it will be a great improvement over the rock stations we've seen in the last 10 years IMO.

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by Kryzsky

I don't want to sound like a broken record, and I certainly do not own stock in Sirius or XM. But those of you who do not have a satellite radio seriously need to pick one up. It's like you're still watching those 3 fuzzy TV channels with your rabbit ears when 100 channels of cable are available.

Don't like the song that's playing? Choose between almost 100 other music channels with no commercials. Zero ads.

Hockey games, talk, news. I haven't heard a Nickleback song in a year now, it's great. Testicular radio does not compare.

Not to mention 30 presets. And you can listen online as well. 100 stations that you can listen to anytime anywhere no matter your location. Plus, for Sirius subscribers, Howard Stern. That show is pretty good now that it is totally uncensored.

[edn88]

Originally Posted by Deelow

Wicksie took an oil job. That's where the money is.
Here's the new site for the X
http://www.xiscoming.ca/

Funny - it must not pay well enough, or he is missing DJing, cause he was hosting the Flames-Kings game at Shilelighs in Signal Hill on Saturday night.

[Engine09]

Not to mention 30 presets. And you can listen online as well. 100 stations that you can listen to anytime anywhere no matter your location. Plus, for Sirius subscribers, Howard Stern. That show is pretty good now that it is totally uncensored.

The Stern Show is f'ing hilarious, never fails to make me laugh out loud at least a couple times a day. I have not missed a minute since they started at Sirius.

But yeah, I had my password/username emailed to me a while back, nice to have the option to listen online. Even though most of us in Calgary won't need to, we have such a powerful repeater that you can still get the signal inside of most buildings.

Roads trips with the Sirius are great, no fading signal, no searching for something else to listen to when you're out of range. You can drive up to the Arctic and still listen to all your favorite channels. I actually have a work trip coming up that will take me to Nunavut, nice to know that I'll be able to listen to my choice of 3 or 4 NHL games in the evening and listen to Stern all during the day.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Deelow

CCalgary's New Rock Alternative @ 92.9 has it's morning show! I'm very please to tell you that Fraser Tuff and Roger Kingkade are coming to CFEX. (Sorry, we don't have the Breakfast Bunch name figured out yet) Fraser has spent the past few years holding down the morning show in Lethbridge at Rock 106, while Roger has spent the past few years in Vancouver working at such stations as Xfm, The Fox, and most recently Rock 101.algary's New Rock Alternative @ 92.9 has it's morning show! I'm very please to tell you that Fraser Tuff and Roger Kingkade are coming to CFEX. (Sorry, we don't have the Breakfast Bunch name figured out yet) Fraser has spent the past few years holding down the morning show in Lethbridge at Rock 106, while Roger has spent the past few years in Vancouver working at such stations as Xfm, The Fox, and most recently Rock 101.

Thanks for the info. I am glad that Fraser is leaving Rock 106. Initially I liked him but I felt that his views were too negative and that his views were the only views anybody was allowed to have. I stopped listening to the morning show on Rock 106 because of him.

Oh, and he is an Oiler fan, here is his BIO on Rock 106:
http://www.rock106.ca/content/STATIO...60826_5488.jsp

[troutman]

If "alternative" includes Nickelback, Creed, The Killers, etc, then no thanks.

[Prototype]

Originally Posted by troutman

If "alternative" includes Nickelback, Creed, The Killers, etc, then no thanks.

Right now, it might. And as much as the collective at CP doesn't like it, they have to go with what's charting, and what the major number of the listening public wants.

Creed, not so much, but Killers will probably be on there. I can almost guarentee that Nickleback will, cause they've been very popular over the last 5 years, AND the double whammy... CANCON.

But I'm sure you'll here more of the 90s sound ie-Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden... etc. I doub't they'll have anything to do with anything earlier than 1990, but I don't quite know for sure.

[Deelow]

Originally Posted by troutman

If "alternative" includes Nickelback, Creed, The Killers, etc, then no thanks.

Killers probably. I bet they'll leave the others alone. This is probably what you could expect their top 20 to look like if on the air today.
My Chemical Romance Welcome To The Black...
Incubus Anna Molly
Red Hot Chili Pepper... Snow (Hey Oh)
Three Days Grace Pain
Raconteurs Level
Killers When You Were Young
AFI Love Like Winter
The Tragically Hip In View
Audioslave Revelations
Billy Talent Fallen Leaves
(+44) When Your Heart Stop...
Beck Nausea
K-OS Sunday Morning
Muse Starlight
Our Lady Peace Kiss On The Mouth
Tool The Pot
Champion, DJ No Heaven
Evanescence Call Me When You're...
IllScarlett Heaters
Fall Out Boy This Ain't A Scene,...

[Engine09]

CANCON

Yes, ensuring that 54-40, Tom Cochrane and Colin James continue to get those royalty checks!

Why don't we have a vomit smiley?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Deelow

Killers probably. I bet they'll leave the others alone. This is probably what you could expect their top 20 to look like if on the air today.
My Chemical Romance Welcome To The Black...
Incubus Anna Molly
Red Hot Chili Pepper... Snow (Hey Oh)
Three Days Grace Pain
Raconteurs Level
Killers When You Were Young
AFI Love Like Winter
The Tragically Hip In View
Audioslave Revelations
Billy Talent Fallen Leaves
(+44) When Your Heart Stop...
Beck Nausea
K-OS Sunday Morning
Muse Starlight
Our Lady Peace Kiss On The Mouth
Tool The Pot
Champion, DJ No Heaven
Evanescence Call Me When You're...
IllScarlett Heaters
Fall Out Boy This Ain't A Scene,...

That's not alternative music.

This is:

http://www.chartattack.com/charts/co...nov2006/25.txt


NATIONAL CAMPUS TOP 50 CHART
1. DECEMBERISTS The Crane Wife (Capitol/EMI)
2. BECK The Information (Interscope/Universal)
3. DEARS Gang Of Losers (MapleMusic/Universal)
4. SHOTGUN AND JAYBIRD Trying To Get Somewhere (Sappy)
5. LES GEORGES LENINGRAD Sangue Puro (Dare To Care/Outside)
6. TOM WAITSOrphans (Anti~/Epitaph/FAB)
7. OX American Lo-Fi (Weewerk/Outside)
8. VARIOUS ARTISTS Mint Records Presents The CBC Radio 3 Sessions (Mint/Outside)
9. EMILY HAINES & SOFT SKELETON Knives Don't Have Your Back (Last Gang/Universal)
10. K-OS Atlantis - Hymns For Disco (Virgin/Capitol/EMI)

Sometime in the mid-90s "alternative" rock got stolen from us. Bob Mould wrote a song about it, "I Hate Alternative Rock":

I knew you when you had something to say . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock

By the mid-90s, alternative was synonymous with grunge in the eyes of the mass media and the general public, and a supposed "alternative culture" was being marketed to the mainstream in much the same way as the hippiecounterculture had in the 1960s (the existence of any such culture is debatable, and is often seen by some fans of the music to have been a creation of the media). Thus, many wildly popular post-grunge bands such as Third Eye Blind and Matchbox Twenty were labeled as "alternative" rock. Nevertheless, alternative bands who were leery of broad commercial success developed indie rock, a genre that espoused a return to the original ethos of alternative music

[Deelow]

Originally Posted by troutman

That's not alternative music.

This is:

http://www.chartattack.com/charts/co...nov2006/25.txt


NATIONAL CAMPUS TOP 50 CHART
1. DECEMBERISTS The Crane Wife (Capitol/EMI)
2. BECK The Information (Interscope/Universal)
3. DEARS Gang Of Losers (MapleMusic/Universal)
4. SHOTGUN AND JAYBIRD Trying To Get Somewhere (Sappy)
5. LES GEORGES LENINGRAD Sangue Puro (Dare To Care/Outside)
6. TOM WAITSOrphans (Anti~/Epitaph/FAB)
7. OX American Lo-Fi (Weewerk/Outside)
8. VARIOUS ARTISTS Mint Records Presents The CBC Radio 3 Sessions (Mint/Outside)
9. EMILY HAINES & SOFT SKELETON Knives Don't Have Your Back (Last Gang/Universal)
10. K-OS Atlantis - Hymns For Disco (Virgin/Capitol/EMI)

First off that's an album chart...
Secondly that is a campus chart most of that stuff is not commercially viable aternative music. The goal for any comemrcial radio station is to make money. Like it or not that can't be done when Tom Waits is in your top 10.

[Looger]

oh god.

'alternative' - holy buzzword batman.

as soon as people start listening to music they like and not music someone tells them to like, it might actually be safe to turn on the radio again.

what a ****ing joke.

[troutman]

commercially viable aternative = oxymoron

They try to hook you with the "alternative" tag, but they offer nothing cutting edge. Just derivative watered-down grunge.

[Deelow]

Originally Posted by troutman

commercially viable aternative = oxymoron

fair enough...but not everyone is a holier than thou indie fiend. To most Alternative = Nirvana, Incubus, My Chemical Romance for the rest there's CJSW.

[TurnedTheCorner]

I'll take my iPod over radio (traditional or satellite) any day, thank you very much. I don't find the endless variety of crappy, poorly programmed, subscription based satellite stations a real alternative to the limited variety of crappy, poorly programmed free stations.

[Sylvanfan]

Is this going to be the same radio group that owns Sonic in Edmonton. Sonic doesn't use the alternative label as much as it claims to be a new rock station. Still it plays a lot of stuff that charts because at the end of the day the music that is selling the most records tends to draw listeners, and more listeners mean higher advertising revenue.

[wegotBeers]

Originally Posted by Snakeeye

SUN FM Grande Prairie. Though, being one of two stations in that city, it tries to add everything but country in.

It is funny that you say that, I was just thinking that as I was reading the thread, Kevin Scott makes me want to slit my throat.

[Deelow]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Is this going to be the same radio group that owns Sonic in Edmonton. Sonic doesn't use the alternative label as much as it claims to be a new rock station. Still it plays a lot of stuff that charts because at the end of the day the music that is selling the most records tends to draw listeners, and more listeners mean higher advertising revenue.

Different ownership group than Sonic, which by the way was just sold to Rogers. That could very well spell the end of the cool way they conduct their business. It's too bad really.
Sonic uses the term "Modern Rock" instead of "Alternative".

[someguy51]

Originally Posted by Buff

Thanks for the info. I am glad that Fraser is leaving Rock 106. Initially I liked him but I felt that his views were too negative and that his views were the only views anybody was allowed to have. I stopped listening to the morning show on Rock 106 because of him.

Oh, and he is an Oiler fan, here is his BIO on Rock 106:
http://www.rock106.ca/content/STATIO...60826_5488.jsp

I bet he'll "become" a Flames fan when he starts working here. At least when he's on the air.

[KTown]

What is radio??

The only thing that ****es me off is when a radio station takes over my IPOD station.

If I was to go pack to radio it would have to be satelite. A question to anyone using satelite radio, have you found any dead spots aroung Calgary. I know there is suppose to be none hence the word satelite, but I'm just curious.