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Category: Calgary
Around The Dial Podcast Edition – A Look at Canadian Rock Radio | #1 – February 2020
All good programming deserves a re-boot.
Lisa Flairhe / Rhino, CKIK Calgary | August 22, 1996
Recorded six years before a noteworthy call letter and format change (CFGQ Q-107 Classic Rock), here’s the Adult Contemporary version of CKIK that was sandwiched in between two Rock formats. A few notables on this 10+ minute scope: Lisa Flairhe(sp) (pronounced Flair-hay) is heard towards the beginning, in just one break. She talks after the…
New Music Showdown/Night Show on CHFM-95.9 “Kiss-FM” Calgary | 1996
Date of Recording: 1996 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: CJFM 95.9 Calgary Format: CHR Featured Air Talent: Unknown Contributor: Anonnymous Original Post Date: 01.25.2010 Repost Date: 11/19/2017 Curator’s Notes: From our Annonymous Donations file (yes, we had a contributor who wished to remain annonymous), comes this excellent aircheck of Kiss-FM Calgary. Unfortunately, there are few identifying…
Rob Vie on CJAY 92 Calgary | February 1985
Fourth in our series of airchecks from the Calgary market features yet another rock station. This one, however, has had great success since it’s sign on, June 1, 1977. It exists today as an Active Rock station, recently having celebrated it’s 30th anniversary! How many stations can claim that? Like the CKIK aircheck, this one…
A look at Calgary’s Rock, “Kick 107” (CKIK) | February, 1985
So you’re a rocker and you’re in Calgary for some reason… and much to your surprise there is a really GOOD rock station on FM. Kick 107, isn’t the name of a Country station, at least not here. Its a really good Rock station. Not all hard rock, mind you, but a station that reminds…
Glen Slingerland, CFCN “All Hit AM 106” Calgary | February 1985
Not one, but TWO CHR stations on the AM band in the same city? But this is 1985? Yes, but this is also Canada, where hit music is still heard on AM, and man is this good! AM 1060, believe it or not, still exists with a Classic Country format under the call letters CKMX,…
Gary James, 1140 CKXL Calgary | February 1985
While by 1985, most top 40 music in the United States had migrated to FM, with very few exceptions, in Canada, the format survived – even thrived in many markets on AM, thanks in part to the policies of the CTRC, Canada’s radio regulatory body, their version of the FCC. In Canada its not just…
