Radio Stations' Issues

[iHeart]

so I checked 99.1 this morning and it seems that Peggy is still on the air for now it sounds like we're not going to find out much yet

[iHeart]

So update on Peggy they're going to be playing Christmas music til the 26th and then they are going to be Country 99 (found out via CJOB)

[Noeller]

well that's intriguing... nobody can compete with QX. Companies have tried and failed over and over again. Winnipeg just isn't that much of a Country music city to have that many country stations. The NCI/APTN folks are desperately trying with Now 104 and NCI, but the ratings are dismal. Not sure how Corus figures another Country station is a good idea..... unless they're planning on syndicating most of it with out of province voices to keep the costs way down so the ratings don't matter....?? Curious decision anyhow...

[iHeart]

I thought 94.3 was now

[Noeller]

https://nowcountry.fm/

[iHeart]

6 hours ago, Noeller said:

https://nowcountry.fm/

Oh that NOW

 

so according to a very observant member of the RadioWest message board, once Country 99 launches there will be a grand total of 8 Country music stations in Manitoba

 

CFRY - 920 - Portage
CKMW - 88.9 - Winkler (COUNTRY 88)
CHPO - 93.1 - Portage (COUNTRY 93.1)
CFPG - 99.1 - Winnipeg (COUNTRY 99)
CFQX - 104.1 - Selkirk (QX 104)
CIUR - 104.7 -Winnipeg (NOW COUNTRY)
CICY - 105.5 - Selkirk (NCI) (Indigenous.....but primarily Country)
CJXR - 107.7 - Steinbach (COUNTRY 107.7)

Edited December 2, 2023 by iHeart

[Mark H.]

CFRY is more of a news station for the Portage area. They do play country music, but it's not their bread & butter 

[iHeart]

whatever I'm only listening to CFRY right now because they have the rights to Gipp Forster's It Feels Like Christmas (I will admit I wish it was still on CJOB because that jingle is just not the same without "On CJOB" add-on)

Edited December 2, 2023 by iHeart

[Goalie]

1 minute ago, iHeart said:

whatever I'm only listening to CFRY right now because they have the rights to Gipp Forster's It Feels Like Christmas (I will admit I wish it as still on CJOB because that jingle is just not the same without "On CJOB" add-on)

Childhood memories 

 

It feels like Christmas... on cjob 

 

Basically only radio station we got at the lake 

[SpeedFlex27]

3 minutes ago, iHeart said:

whatever I'm only listening to CFRY right now because they have the rights to Gipp Forster's It Feels Like Christmas (I will admit I wish it as still on CJOB because that jingle is just not the same without "On CJOB" add-on)

He tells some great stories. Forster passed away. These are old stories. 

[iHeart]

2 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

He tells some great stories. Forster passed away. These are old stories. 

yeah I'm aware that he's been gone for a decade, but the nostalgia still remains, CJOB had been playing them for as long as I can remember

[Noeller]

7 hours ago, iHeart said:

Oh that NOW

 

so according to a very observant member of the RadioWest message board, once Country 99 launches there will be a grand total of 8 Country music stations in Manitoba

 

CFRY - 920 - Portage
CKMW - 88.9 - Winkler (COUNTRY 88)
CHPO - 93.1 - Portage (COUNTRY 93.1)
CFPG - 99.1 - Winnipeg (COUNTRY 99)
CFQX - 104.1 - Selkirk (QX 104)
CIUR - 104.7 -Winnipeg (NOW COUNTRY)
CICY - 105.5 - Selkirk (NCI) (Indigenous.....but primarily Country)
CJXR - 107.7 - Steinbach (COUNTRY 107.7)

Q Country Brandon 

CKDM Dauphin (mix of Country/Classic Rock) 

[SpeedFlex27]

5 minutes ago, iHeart said:

yeah I'm aware that he's been gone for a decade, but the nostalgia still remains, CJOB had been playing them for as long as I can remember

I used to like them as well. 

[WinnipegGordo]

On 2023-12-01 at 11:33 AM, Noeller said:

https://nowcountry.fm/

Tom McGouran went to that station. 

[Noeller]

10 hours ago, WinnipegGordo said:

Tom McGouran went to that station. 

he did, indeed.... and another Winnipeg Rock radio icon in the PMs...... they really don't care too much about the Country music genre over there. It's more about "entertainment", which is fine.... regardless, nobody's keeping up with QX. They just destroy everyone. I'm not sure how the other ones are even staying afloat, with (among) the lowest ratings in the city...

[Noeller]

So apparently the new Corus Country station that replaced Peggy.... Mornings are syndicated from Edmonton, Midday and Afternoons from Calgary. Nothing out of Winnipeg so far, is my understanding. Will be very generic on air content, I suppose.

[iHeart]

Delete

Edited October 9 by iHeart
didn't know Frosty put it in the music thread

[SpeedFlex27]

[iHeart]

CJOB is not having a good year 

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/2024/11/28/cjobs-milroy-buckingham-axed-in-latest-corus-cost-cutting

[Mark H.]

Changed the title to better reflect the overall content of the thread.

[iHeart]

2 hours ago, Mark H. said:

Changed the title to better reflect the overall content of the thread.

Well it makes sense after all it started with TSN 1290 shuttering

 

Bell Media and Corus kind of suck there was a reason I made Corus a personal F-Bomb target last year

I'd say Rogers is the lesser of these evils, but considering the connectivity issues I had been dealing with the last little while......

Edited Saturday at 12:38 AM by iHeart

[iHeart]

and Gipp is on CFRY again 

imagine gif of Mariah Carey wailing IT'S TIME

 

[SpeedFlex27]

We get to listen to Ben Mulroney's Toronto MORNING show at 12-2 after Corus cut 27 year CHQR veteran talk show host Rob Breakenridge here in Calgary. What an insult to the listening audience across Canada. Breakenridge was one of the best news interviewers on radio anywhere. Always prepared he can talk to just about everyone. Eff off Corus. Once they got rid of Breakenridge, That was a deal breaker for me. I stopped listening. 

[GCJenks]

Myself, I am thanking Corus management for putting Ben Mulroney on in the afternoons. Now, I turn off the radio and turn on podcasts, now instead of being entertained I get educated...

[Noeller]

4 minutes ago, GCJenks said:

Myself, I am thanking Corus management for putting Ben Mulroney on in the afternoons. Now, I turn off the radio and turn on podcasts, now instead of being entertained I get educated...

Is this a thing on their Talk formats like OB? Jeeze that's something. One way to save some cash I guess....