[Rumors]

What are your favorite Canadian radio Stations? :)

I have two.. at home I listen to Virgin Radio .96 FM, and at work we listen to Rock Detente 107.3 FM. :boogy:

So what are your favorite Canadian radio stations? ;)

[edmontonenthusiast]

91.7 the Bounce (pop, hip hop, techno)

Sonic 102.9 (modern rock)

Those are my favourites but there was one I liked in Winnipeg I can't remember the name.

[Nicko999]

I have two.. at home I listen to Virgin Radio .96 FM

That

[le calmar]

Virgin (used to be Mix 96?), CHOM 97,7, but I don't listen to radio that much.

[Beltliner]

Radio One mostly, although CKUA has a nice homespun feel, and CJSW's nice to have available if I'm in the mood for grungy college radio.

Still waiting for an answer on "Who are you, how did you find this horrible noise, and what have you done with the real Radio Two?"

[borgo100]

102.1 The edge..... too many commercials!, Good music....

[someone123]

Canada has more than one radio station? I thought there was just one with a few annoying radio announcers who play bad music and make puerile jokes.

[MTLskyline]

Montreal's radio stations are garbage for the most part...

Sometimes CHOM 977 is ok, sometimes Team 990, sometimes 999 the Buzz from Burlington, Vermont...

[jmt18325]

CBC Radio 1 and CJOB 68

[NetMapel]

95.3 Virgin Radio :)

[1ajs]

cbc radio 1 and um fm 101.5 friday even and sat eve

[401_King]

if i ever listen to the radio its usually

-canada's first (and one of the few remaining) rap station, flow 93.5
- also UofT radio, 680 News

[bornagainbiking]

I love listening to to SIRIUS (ROCK) especially on the road
and Q107 in the GTA/:notacrook:

[feepa]

88.5 CJSR on Saturday nights.

[adriancanada]

in Toronto: Z103.5, flow 93.5, 104.5 chum fm, and occasionally stations which can be caught broadcasting from niagara falls NY and buffalo: kiss 98.5 and 93.7 WBLK

in Montreal: Virgin 96, and a french station 96.9 (don't know what the name is)...but usually I just stream z1035 online:tup:

[0773|=\]

CKUA (94.9 in Edmonton), CJSR (88.5 in Edmonton), and I'll stream CBC Radio 3 on rare occasion...

Sonic 102.9 showed some promise but has since become terrible.

[SpongeG]

1410 cfun (i think its talk 1410 the buzz now) - talk radio
am730 - all traffic all the time

[Kevin_foster]

Cbc 1

[vid]

Rock 94 (one of those stations with puerile announcers and bad music :)) and CBC Radio 1.

[highdensitysprawl]

Montreal's radio stations are garbage for the most part...

Sometimes CHOM 977 is ok, sometimes Team 990, sometimes 999 the Buzz from Burlington, Vermont...

Most of the time when I've been in Mtl CHOM has been on an endless repeat of Max Webster/Eagles/AC/DC/Rolling Stones etc.

The Buzz would be OK if it had a better signal especially in the core of Montreal.

[Rathgrith]

CBC Radio 1
Z103.5 Toronto (stream mostly)
Live 88.5

And if I really want to get a brain aneurysm from listening to something annoying: Hot 899, Moose Fm (anyone of them), and any other rock/pop station that plays Nickelback helps.

[vid]

That stupid song by Kid Rock just came on. The radio just went off.

Yay Hypem!

[Bedford_DJ]

There are new ones coming online all the time here in Hali but my favourites are;

101.3 THE BOUNCE (urban, hip-hop, rap, pop, ect)

96.5 KOOL FM (variety)

89.9 HAL FM (rock)

[circle33]

CFCR (http://www.cfcr.ca/)
Radio 1
SRC2
Newstalk 650 (I like listening to Bob McGowan while doing the dishes)

[HomeInMyShoes]

Radio 1.

Maybe the campus radio station.

[harls]

Radio just makes me angry. I like the History of Rock show with Alan Cross, though. My wife can't stand it because 'they always talk about Nirvana'... and she's right.

[kirjtc2]

None. Maybe News 88.9 from Saint John, but that's it.

I have Sirius for all my music needs now.

[kitchener-lrt]

Z103.5!

[Only The Lonely..]

Canadian radio????


I haven't listened to Winnipeg radio in almost a month since getting XM in my new car.

I can't say I really miss hearing the same Tragically Hip song being played 23 times through out the day either.

Or the fact, that Winnipeg radio almost exclusively tailors itself to middle aged women (Clear 102 fm, Q 94, The Groove), Cowboys (QX 104 fm, Hank radio 107.5, 93.1 fm, and Country 1570 in Winkler), and angry narrow minded conservatives (CJOB 680 AM).

Not to mention, a number of choch Alternative Rock stations for your daily Nickleback fix (Power 97, 92.9 Kick FM, Ignite 107 fm).

It's a good thing the CRTC offer's us so much variety in radio programming!!!

[jeremy_haak]

Radio just makes me angry. I like the History of Rock show with Alan Cross, though. My wife can't stand it because 'they always talk about Nirvana'... and she's right.

The Ongoing History of New Music is a pretty good show. Mostly I just listen to Radio One though.

[0773|=\]

Canadian radio????


I haven't listened to Winnipeg radio in almost a month since getting XM in my new car.

I can't say I really miss hearing the same Trigically Hip song being played 23 times through out the day either.

Or the fact, that Winnipeg radio almost exclusively tailors itself to middle aged women (Clear 102 fm, Q 94, The Groove), Cowboys (QX 104 fm, Hank radio 107.5, 93.1 fm, and Country 1570 in Winkler), and angry narrow minded conservatives (CJOB 680 AM).

Not to mention, a number of choch Alternative Rock stations for your daily Nickleback fix (Power 97, 92.9 Kick FM, Ignite 107 fm).

It's a good thing the CRTC offer's us so much variety in radio programming!!!

Your U of M and U of W campus radio stations are VERY good. I've streamed them online quite a few times. 101.5 and 95.9, respectively.

[vid]

Listening to Radio 1 now. I've always found the fact that Barbara Budd and Carol Off are hosting a show together. If they were on a rock station in the morning it would most certainly be called "Budd Off".

[Only The Lonely..]

Your U of M and U of W campus radio stations are VERY good. I've streamed them online quite a few times. 101.5 and 95.9, respectively.

Haha, my friend does a late night metal show on UMFM. The station is jokingly referred to as "Listerner free radio" because of some of the more eclectic programming they have on there.

As a student of the U of W, CKUW is a little too socialist for my own tastes considering I have to pay for it.

It is college radio I suppose.

Where else can one listen to the musings of starry eyed idealists between sets of emo ladden rock?

[vid]

University radio here is truly bizarre. I don't think most of the city knows it exists, either.

[Aylmer]

There is a radio in EVERY room in our house, and one of them is always tuned to either Radio-Canada, CBC, or Hot899.

Sometimes, I listen to radio just to hear people talking.

:)

[SpongeG]

for online i like

104.9 Xfm - www.xfm.co.uk

sometimes capital fm if i wanna hear crap

www.mikesradioworld.com is a great portal :)

[kirjtc2]

for online i like

104.9 Xfm - www.xfm.co.uk

sometimes capital fm if i wanna hear crap

www.mikesradioworld.com is a great portal :)

If you want to hear crap, listen to Fredericton's Capital FM. :p

[Ayreonaut]

If you want to hear crap, listen to Fredericton's Capital FM. :p

Or any station in the Okanagan. :yuck:

[Jimby]

I liked the PEAK in Vancouver when I was there. They mainly play new music.

[waterloowarrior]

102.1 the Edge

[Doug_Cgy]

Energy 101.5 Calgary

[Jimby]

fuel 90.3 Calgary
RC 89.7 for jazz in the late afternoon

[Denscity]

punkradiocast.com

[MolsonExport]

None. They all play Nickelback or shit-hop, or diva-crud.

[AirGuitarChampion]

Hard to pick out a station, but some of my favourite shows are:

CJAY 92.1 6am-10am Weekdays: Forbes and Freinds. Yes, I like to check the brain at the door, shotgun a beer and giggle like Beavis and Butthead sometimes. I mean who doesn't.

X92.9 9pm-11pm Weekdays: good harder stuff from the 90's

CJSW 90.9 6pm-7pm Friday: Musicquarium, chill before going out. The calm before the storm if you will

Energy 101.5 8pm-10pm Saturday: Poppy club music 80's-90's-current (no commercials) that the GF likes and I can at least tolerate

CJSW 90.9 10pm-11pm (sometimes later) Saturday: Megawatt Mayhem: METAL!!!

CKUA 93.7 sometimes has good live recordings / shows

[Ayreonaut]

I love Megawatt Mayhem, but rarely catch it, I can't get that station from my house, and usually forget about it when I'm driving.

[240glt]

Tongue and Groove on CKUA used to be the best radio program in Alberta when it aired @ 9 pm on saturdays. I always caught the show.. 2 hours of eclectic house, electro & funk that made Alberta feel just a little bit less backwoodsy... I hear Kevin Wilson may be coming back with a similar program.

Weekday AM's I listen to CJSR from the U of A for the idle banter and BBC news. Sonic for modern rock (best alt/rock station I've found outsdie the west coast) and CBC when I am driving one my frquent highway trips to Red Deer or elsewhere.

[manny_santos]

I'm a CBC Radio One listener, if I'm near a radio when they're on I like The Current, As It Happens, and Ontario Today. Sometimes The Sunday Edition has something interesting, and Cross-Country Checkup as well. If I'm in Toronto I've always found the local CBC station (99.1 FM) has the most complete GTA traffic reports, even better than 680 which can sometimes neglect traffic issues in the 905 area.

Aside from that most of the time I listen to FM96 in London, more for the morning show with Tucker and Taz than anything. They're like the Dean Blundell show on The Edge but somewhat watered down for more conservative London tastes, still quite funny sometimes with a lot of pranks. Also I don't mind the Ongoing History of New Music sometimes. Although they're like The Edge and also play some local stuff, the playlist seems to be getting smaller and smaller. I once heard the same Linkin Park song four times in 10 hours.

London has what may be one of the most popular college stations anywhere, 106.9 The X at Fanshawe College. They're an urban music station and sound very mainstream, and have the added plus of more local programming than anyone in London, including late nights. For a college station the signal covers the city quite well. Almost everyone I know who listens to conventional radio listens to FM96 or The X.

Otherwise the area has a pretty generic lineup of stations, including four country stations and the added bonus of the worst of Kitchener radio.

[highdensitysprawl]

Otherwise the area has a pretty generic lineup of stations, including four country stations and the added bonus of the worst of Kitchener radio.

Can you get Dave FM (107.5?) from Cambridge...my SIL listens to that and it is dirge....she can't stand CBC so I usually make sure it is on in our car.

[manny_santos]

Can you get Dave FM (107.5?) from Cambridge...my SIL listens to that and it is dirge....she can't stand CBC so I usually make sure it is on in our car.

Dave doesn't reach this area. The two strongest signals from Kitchener we get are CHYM and Kool FM. Not sure if any forumers here like "easy listening" but there's a relatively unknown and unique station out of Tillsonburg on 101.3 FM playing that music, and they even have respectable ratings in London. Doesn't sound like a commercial station at all, and yet they run some pretty good cash giveaways. I remember they gave away $10,000 once.

[DHLawrence]

None. They all play Nickelback or shit-hop, or diva-crud.

If I hear one more bland, uniformly voiced, late 30s-to-middle-aged divorcee described as a 'diva,' I'm probably going to put a fist through my radio :yuck:



I'm only in my 20s, but as a legacy of being raised on CHFI's Saturday Night Oldies Show, most of my presets are oldies stations:

99.5 CKKW Kitchener (used to be AM 1090 oldies, but they moved to FM and started playing 80s music and the worst 70s music I've ever heard.)

103.9 CKDK Woodstock (another 'greatest hits' station, but with much better taste among its DJs)

1150 CKOC Hamilton (one of the only oldies stations left that I can get; usually a good mix, but the afternoon guy gets on my nerves)

1460 CJOY Guelph (I'm in school in Toronto most of the week, where this station's almost always a sea of static. Don't listen as much any more)

1380 CKPC Brantford (almost always a sea of static, but useful when everything else stinks)

I also have Classical 96.3 (haven't listened to Radio 2 since they announced the change) and three coloured water 'easy listening' stations that I only listen to as a last resort (98.1's still helpful when the Oldies Show is on though).

And I listen to WOMC 104.3 Detroit when I'm near Windsor. It's amazing what songs are played when the radio station isn't being strangled by CanCon regulations.

[vid]

The radio station here gave away $100,000 a few years ago. Now they just give out 100$ every hour in fall and winter (when school semesters start, I noticed.) My mom has won once, but you can win as soon as two weeks after the first time.

Their morning show is pretty entertaining, a middle-aged guy from rural Quebec and a young female Polish immigrant. Their conversations end up in the gutter after about 30 seconds.

[PhilippeMtl]

http://www.heartstringtheband.com/images/content/cism_logo.JPG
CISM 89.3

The only ''ok'' radio in Montreal...

[manny_santos]

103.9 CKDK Woodstock (another 'greatest hits' station, but with much better taste among its DJs)

They used to be my favourite station when they played an all classic rock lineup a few years ago. I think they've hired one too many consultants since then, and now they sound like a BOB or a JACK. Their ratings have gone way down at the same time. Co-owned FM96 picked up a little bit of the classic rock slack, but there are numerous good songs that are never played on London-area radio anymore because of this change.

And I listen to WOMC 104.3 Detroit when I'm near Windsor. It's amazing what songs are played when the radio station isn't being strangled by CanCon regulations.

They are one of the better oldies stations out there. And given the right conditions, they sometimes come in very clearly in London.

One of my co-workers streams WRIF from Detroit, a supposedly active rock station, day after day at her desk. It is basically FM96 or The Edge, but without CanCon and with a lot more commercials. A LOT more. They will play one song then go to endless commercials. They might as well be an all-commercial station.

[MolsonExport]

BOB and JACK just play Blah and Crap. Nickelcrap. The world's worst group, ever, anywhere.

And fucking Gowan. Tom Cock-rain and Red Rectum. Bryass Adams. Who are the morons that decide the playlists?

The best radio station would play a wide assortment of music within a genre or two. F'rinstance, classic rock....there are fucking tens of thousands of good songs..but they only play 20 or so of them.

[harls]

And fucking Gowan. Tom Cock-rain and Red Rectum. Bryass Adams. Who are the morons that decide the playlists?


You forgot Doobie Brothers and Chilliwack.

(I didn't even have to change their names)

[MolsonExport]

and...KANSAS!!! "Carry on my wayward son...."

[harls]

not to mention.. DEF LEPPARD (lick my sweet sticky feet) :slob:

[highdensitysprawl]

The best radio station would play a wide assortment of music within a genre or two. F'rinstance, classic rock....there are fucking tens of thousands of good songs..but they only play 20 or so of them.

You must have listened to CHEZ 106 from Ottawa....yawn rock for tech heads and those w/o any adventure in their musical libary.

[vid]

and...KANSAS!!! "Carry on my wayward son...."

That's the only song they ever made. :(

[harls]

You must have listened to CHEZ 106 from Ottawa....yawn rock for tech heads and those w/o any adventure in their musical libary.

did someone say... Supertramp?

[kirjtc2]

That's the only song they ever made. :(

They did Dust in the Wind too, which is even worse.

I only know that because it was on a crappy karaoke machine I had when I was a kid.

[highdensitysprawl]

did someone say... Supertramp?

Now in no way would I insinuate that CHEZ overplay Supertramp.....:tup:

[MolsonExport]

not to mention.. DEF LEPPARD (lick my sweet sticky feet) :slob:


http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb51/KellyGirl92469/def-leppard-colour615.jpg
^smellygirl 92469 photobucket acct.

:runaway:

[DHLawrence]

They used to be my favourite station when they played an all classic rock lineup a few years ago. I think they've hired one too many consultants since then, and now they sound like a BOB or a JACK. Their ratings have gone way down at the same time. Co-owned FM96 picked up a little bit of the classic rock slack, but there are numerous good songs that are never played on London-area radio anymore because of this change.

Which tells you how good 99.5 is :yuck:

I don't mind CanCon on its own, but when it translates to a seemingly endless cycle of Edward Bear, The Poppy Family, Ocean, Anne Murray, Chilliwack, Joni Mitchell, Bryan Adams, Gale Garnett, and Andy Kim, the pitchforks and torches come out.