Canadian Radio
Friday, February 3, 2012
Don Percy Winnipeg Radio
At 100.7, Breeze is not exactly tearing up the charts. Bringing in Don Percy will get noticed and the newspaper ads certainly indicate they think he has a fan base.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
New Whistler Top-40
After years in limbo, Whistler FM is finally getting ready to launch the Village’s first-ever top-40 music radio station by the end of this year.
Expected to compete with established local radio station Mountain FM, the group behind Whistler FM is not yet releasing specific details about on-air content. But the station is licensed to broadcast top-40, adult contemporary music, as well as news, community updates and other spoken-word programming.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Vancouver's Shore FM | Glen Korstrom
Airchecker breaks the news Wednesday Shore cleans house.
By Glen Korstrom
The radio station’s website contained a message saying, “We’re making changes to make Shore FM a better radio station. We appreciate your patience. For now, we’re playing even more of your favourite Shore music.”
Nobody was available at the station to confirm the staff cuts.
Former station co-owner David Aisenstat told Business in Vancouver February 1 that he was not aware that the station was planning to cut staff.
Aisenstat launched Shore in mid-2009 along with investors such as longtime radio personality Roy Hennessey, S.L. Feldman and Associates Ltd. CEO Sam Feldman, radio personalities Bob Mackowycz Sr. and Bob Mackowycz Jr., TSN personality Michael Landsberg and Maxam Opportunities Fund co-founder Sean Morrison.
Together those investors founded Shore Media Group Inc., which sold Shore for approximately $13.4 million to a subsidiary of Montreal-based Astral Media Inc. (TSX:ACM.a; TSX:ACM.b) in December.
If the staff cuts are true, it is a sad end for the station, which had owners who trumpeted local roots when they launched the station.
“We are going to be local – live and local,” Hennessey told BIV when the station launched.
“One of the key things that motivated us to do this is that we are a Vancouver station, an independent company that is not part of a chain. We don’t have a floor of accountants in Toronto telling us what we can or can’t do. We make our own decisions.”
Glen Korstrom
gkorstrom@biv.com
@GlenKorstrom
Business in Vancouver: Regional business intelligence for the Lower Mainland and B.C. since 1989.
Astral Radio Takes You To A New Experience
Astral Radio - on-demand player from Astral on Vimeo.
Astral Radio is pleased to announce the launch of its all-new digital music service across the NRJ and Virgin Radio Networks. Astral Radio is the first radio broadcaster in Canada to offer this kind of on-demand music and music video streaming service. Not only does this offer listeners new and innovative platforms to discover and share new music, but at the same time it provides its local and national advertisers with new business opportunities on new platforms. The service will be accessible from the radio station websites and on mobile devices. The new service will enable listeners to access different musical content in audio and video formats. It will also offer weekly releases, exclusive content, a music video library and customizable playlist functions, as well as specialized web radio channels. The on-demand player will exploit all the opportunities that social media present so that music lovers can share their discoveries and their favourites on a variety of social media platforms.
BREAKING: SHORE 104 GOING BOOM
Developing.
DID YOU HEAR THE BIG BOOM IN VANCOUVER? SHORE 104. ALL STAFFERS FIRED TODAY BY BRAD PHILLIPS. Astral required CHHR in December 2011, from Shore Media Group for 13 plus million.
One of the best sounding newscasters ever. 30 YEAR RADIO VET. Afternoon drive/Sales. Casey White released from AM 650 Vancouver.
DID YOU HEAR THE BIG BOOM IN VANCOUVER? SHORE 104. ALL STAFFERS FIRED TODAY BY BRAD PHILLIPS. Astral required CHHR in December 2011, from Shore Media Group for 13 plus million.
One of the best sounding newscasters ever. 30 YEAR RADIO VET. Afternoon drive/Sales. Casey White released from AM 650 Vancouver.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
1946: Vancouver Radio
Techno-savvy Vancouverites swoon, and the city prepares to plunge headfirst into the future with the news that it will soon be home to its very own FM radio station.
Monday, January 30, 2012
980 CJME Regina New Morning Show
New morning show launches on 980 CJME Regina today. "Regina's Morning News" with Andrew Dawson, Silvana Benolich and Jamie Nye.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0128
Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0128.
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Featured in this episode:
- John Leake, author, Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery
- Donna Andersen, author, Love Fraud: How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan (Family Relationships)
- James McGibney, founder, KarmaVille.com
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Part 1 Interview: Tamara Stanners 100.5 The PEAK Vancouver
Vancouver broadcaster Tamara Stanners new at the age of six she wanted to work in radio. Growing up in Alberta. 630 CHED was her station of choice. Stanners, has over twenty years in radio & television experience. This versatile broadcasters has done it all. Morning show, writing producing, evening news co-anchor on Vancouver's U News At 6, hosted lifestyle show on HGTV. The early days Stanners, started off as a sticker spotter & receptionist.
AC: Tamara Stanners welcome to Airchecker. First off, you are the PD of 100.5 The Peak Vancouver. The station just celebrated it's third birthday on November 13, 2011. Congratulations.
TS: Thank you so much! I do love this station. I really do.
AC: The Peak Performance Project has been a great success for the station. Designed to promote, develop careers of music talent in BC. How many staffers are involved to make this a success and it must be a full time job all year.
TS: We have a whole team of people working on it. Most of the organizational component of the PEAK Performance Project is done by Music BC ( who do a fantastic job - by the way).
I oversee it for the station along with our General Manager Gerry Siemens who came up with the seed for the project 4 and half years ago. And, all of the PEAK's on air staff plays a huge role in making the Project a success. From talking it up on air to showing up at all of the events, the PEAK Performance Project would not work without buy in from all of the staff. And yes, it is a full time - year round project.
We just wrapped up Year 3 at the Commodore on November 17th, awarding The Matinee $50,000, and The BOOM BOOMS $75,000, with 100.5 Thousand dollars going to Current Swell. We've already started working on Year 4. So it never really ends.
AC: Tamara two decades in radio. Why did you choose broadcasting as a career? Share with radio the early days of breaking into this business.
TS: I knew when I was about 6 years old that all I wanted to do was to get into that little box that played the music and talk about the songs and the artists I loved.
So, it was all I ever focused on. I practiced interviewing my friends in my bedroom using my curling iron as a microphone. I wrote down playlists from 630 CHED ( which was my favorite when I was a kid ) and kept track of the cancon. I was a total radio nerd. But I loved it! And when I started in radio, there weren't that many women on the air.
So there weren't a lot of female role models for me, instead I looked up to the men that I had grown up listening to. I got hired as a sticker spotter at CISN in Edmonton by Gerry Siemens ( who has hired me 3 times since - he says I follow him around.) I was terrible on air, so after my stint as a sticker spotter was over, they moved me to the receptionist position. I worked really hard after hours practicing my on air skills and eventually, Gerry gave me a shot at all nights.
It was a totally different world then. One that included turntables, 45s, l.p.s and an all request all night show. No scheduling at all. I was like a kid in a candy store - but instead of candy - I was getting my fill of country music ( which I knew nothing about and didn't even like when I started)
I did that for two years - started getting better - fell in love with the music - became music director - and got off all nights...which were killers.
I stayed at CISN for 5 years, then moved over to 96 K-Lite, which didn't work out well for me so I moved on eventually making my way to Vancouver to work at LG73.
I got sidetracked for awhile when I was hired to anchor U.News at 6:00 on CKVU in the 90's. But news was never my thing, very depressing being immersed in negative stories all day long. I learned so much in my four years of doing it though. It was like getting paid to go to University for journalism. I really appreciated the opportunity.
But, my true love was calling so I went back to radio as co-host of the JRFM Morning Show. First with Jim Fraser, and then Clay St. Thomas.
Clay and I had been friends since Edmonton, and we were room-mates for awhile when Clay first moved to Vancouver. We had always wanted the opportunity to work together. It was a good time. A lot of work, but Clay is an incredible talent - and he works hard at it.
After 5 years at JRFM I moved with my family to Brackendale where I opened up a coffee shop. Which I loved. It was interesting being the owner of a business. I was 100% responsible for the success or failure of it. I learned so much there too.
Managing people, customer service and having a great product. I really believe that having my own business was pivotal for me to be able to take on the role I have now.
After 5 years, I was looking for a change again. In one week I had three separate offers to sell the coffee shop. One of them I just couldn't refuse, so I sold it and then sat around playing on myspace, listening to great local music that nobody ever played on the radio.
It made me crazy that radio had become so boring and unadventurous. So, I made a goal right then to find a way to get great, local music played on the radio. I didn't know how it would happen, but I knew it was what I wanted to do I also knew that I wanted to get paid for it.
At that time, I started calling radio stations to try to get music that I thought should be played onto their playlists. That was when I connected with James Sutton who was the music director of the Zone in Victoria. I could get that station on my drives on the Sea to Sky, and was impressed by the music they were playing. It wasn't like what anyone else in B.C. was doing. It was fun and different and edgy, and they even played local music.
It was through re-connecting with Gerry Siemens on facebook and a fateful lunch with him that I started working on the team to get the PEAK on the air in Vancouver. I also enlisted the help of James as we set about getting support from the music community for the proposed PEAK.
It was so cool to be a part of a radio station from its inception. From putting the application to the CRTC together, to helping present it to them.To getting the license and starting something from the ground up. When we were granted the license to put the PEAK on the air, I was the first person hired. And, I knew we couldn't do it without James, so he was number 2.
AC: What are your duties as the radio stations program director?
TS: Technically, I am the Assistant Program Director of the PEAK. I am also the Executive Director of the PEAK Performance Project, so my duties are many, varied and hectic and they look like this:
- on air two days a week.
- write and host a daily feature called PEAK Fitness.
- do airchecks with our fantastic PEAK on air people.
- assist with music programing
- do on air scheduling.
- write station promos and imaging.
- Voice commercials.
- help plan PEAK Secret Shows and PEAK Performance Lounge shows
- help with promotional ideas.
- help sales with client meetings and contacts.
- Coordinate the PEAK Performance Project with Music BC ( which is - for 10 months of the year - another full-time job)
- right now, I'm super busy working on the appliction presentation to try to get another PEAK in Calgary.
More with Tamara Stanners radio journey coming up in part two with Airchecker. We take you behind the news.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Vancouver’s Charted Songs ’56 to ’78
For the first time ever, you can get ahold of every Vancouver radio chart from 1957-1972 in once place. Brian Tarling has compiled data from six different chart-series that were produced in Vancouver BC between September 1956 and October 1978.
The six chart-series are:
-Red Robinson’s Top 10 (1956-1959)
-CKWX (1957-1962)
-C-FUN (1959-1967)
-CKLG (1964-1977)
-CKVN (1970-1972)
-C-FUN (1978)
The six chart-series are:
-Red Robinson’s Top 10 (1956-1959)
-CKWX (1957-1962)
-C-FUN (1959-1967)
-CKLG (1964-1977)
-CKVN (1970-1972)
-C-FUN (1978)
CKRM Radio Consultant Took Us In A Wrong Direction
Jason Huschi, CKRM's general manager, believes the connection between the station and its audience provides ample information and direction when it comes to creating a playlist.
"Our choice to go this route wasn't because our consultant took us in a wrong direction," said Huschi. "We believe here that we have, through our surveys, through our discussions and interactions with our listeners and within our advertising community, all the necessary information. There was a void that was created when we stopped doing what we were doing best. It's time, we feel, that we can serve a lot more people a lot more effectively going back to what we were known for.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Winners: Paul Carson Broadcast & Media Awards.
The all-sports networks TSN and Sportsnet each scored wins in the as the awards recognized excellence in sport journalism and broadcasting in Vancouver.
Farhan Lalji of TSN was named best sports television reporter for 2012 while Ray Ferraro of TSN took top honours in the category of sports colour commentary. Ferraro is a former NHL player who is a colour commentator and panelist for TSN's NHL broadcasts.
Don Taylor, host of Sportsnet Connected on Sportsnet Pacific, was named best sports television anchor.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Lisa Ray K-Rock, KIX and The Lake
EMC Lifestyle - Some people who have booked their vacations on cruise ships are wondering about safety following the fiasco and disaster involving Carnival Corp's Costa Concordia. Stop. Don't go there.
Lisa Ray, a deejay with the K-Rock, KIX and The Lake radio crew, said the concern isn't warranted.
"This thing off the coast of Italy is just a very strange scenario," she said. "It doesn't make any sense." What is of concern is the mindset of the captain, Francesco Schettino, who abandoned ship, then refused orders to return to the ship to lead and assist in rescue operations. He claimed it was dark and the ship was tipping. Duh. That's why he was needed on board.
Lisa Ray, a deejay with the K-Rock, KIX and The Lake radio crew, said the concern isn't warranted.
"This thing off the coast of Italy is just a very strange scenario," she said. "It doesn't make any sense." What is of concern is the mindset of the captain, Francesco Schettino, who abandoned ship, then refused orders to return to the ship to lead and assist in rescue operations. He claimed it was dark and the ship was tipping. Duh. That's why he was needed on board.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Want To Work In Radio? Radio Account Executive Tim Atherton of Astral Media Gives Advice
I have been with the radio stations for 22 years as an Account Executive. Due to media convergence in Canada I have worked for a number of companies both public and private including Standard Radio, Redmond Broadcasting, Telemedia Radio, Affinity Radio, Coultis Broadcasting which all eventually were bought out by Astral Media. As a Senior Account Executive I am responsible for Sales on our three stations EZ Rock 105.7 FM, CKTB 610AM and 97.7 HTZ-FM. I am also responsible for sales on our three web sites including Video Pre rolls, leaderboard ads and big box ads. Just recently, we will also be in charge of selling barter deals on Astral Radio Deals which is similar to Groupon where we trade products for advertising. I deal with local business owners and with ad agencies for major cross-Canada retailers.
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