860 in Toronto

[fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush)]

Just to quell a bit of the speculation:

While 740 will indeed go silent October 20 (with the CRTC taking
applications for the frequency at some subsequent date), there
are NO - repeat, NO - officially announced plans at this time to
abandon CJBC on 860.  Yes, there were rumo(u)rs a while back about
the CBC moving the "Premiere Chaine" of SRC to CJBC-FM 90.3, taking
the "Chaine Culturelle" off the air in Toronto, and silencing
CJBC 860 - but it hasn't happened yet.

Meantime, I'm enjoying the last month and a half of CBC programming
I'll be able to hear in Rochester.  Driving back from a story in
Elmira this morning, CBC was the lone oasis of interesting,
thought-provoking, intelligent radio on the dial amidst a vast,
vast, vast wasteland of satellite AC, satellite country, satellite
CHR, and that polka show on WELM and WEHH.  It will be sorely missed.

Sorry, Bob :-)

- -s

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