Re: 860 in Toronto

["Tim Davisson" <timdav@bright.net>]

Scott & group:
I totally agree with your comments about CBL's
demise.  Really, I wonder if the CBC has any
idea how many people in the Canada & US
really enjoy their programs? Of course, they're
targeting Canadians, not us.

Tim/Ohio

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> From: Scott D Fybush <fybush@world.std.com>
> To: bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: 860 in Toronto
> Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 8:19 PM
> 
> 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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