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Late Spring/Early Summer 2008 ratings

Edmonton radio ratings - Late Spring/Early Summer 2008

The big news coming out of the latest ratings book is that Edmonton radio listeners are back in the country saddle again, with CISN claiming king of the hill and CFCW ponying up with its best book since the summer of 2006.

Two stations were caught in transition and five stations posted historic lows.

For all the juicy numbers visit the Last Link Edmonton radio ratings - Late Spring/Early Summer 2008 report.

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This time it's a case of not when but if ...

Fans of former K-Rock program director Lochlin Cross got a pleasant surprise when he appeared as pd-wannabe for Frank and Ed Torres' DAWG-FM blues station proposal at recently held CRTC hearings for a new FM licence.

Media-watchers figured K-Rock's poor ratings since summer 2006 and the costly (and hare-brained) What The Hell Happened To K-Rock? TV campaign led to the demise of Cross when he was at Newcap.

Speaking at the hearing, Cross ensured the CRTC that listeners would hear familiar sounds should the Commission throw the DAWG a stick-huh?

"Blues music has had a massive influence on a number of music genres and Edmonton will be presently surprised at how much music they'll recognize on 107.3 on the FM dial," Cross said, likely much to the dismay of Frank and Ed who singled out rhythm & blues from the fifties and sixties, soul, contemporary rhythm & blues performances along with classic blues and delta blues as selling points in their application.

In other news, this time in the air, there are familiar voices back on the air – but at different stations.

Flying for the Corus folk since their launch in April 2006, Garrette McGowan has flown the coop and migrated over to the Torres-owned Skywords service which offers airborne traffic surveillance from their Cessna 172 fixed-wing airplane for AM 790 CFCW, 97.3 K-Rock and the New Capital 96.3 FM.

McGowan takes over from Bob Preston who, according to some sources, didn't handle heights so well. Taking over from McGowan at Corus is Shane Blakely.

SAIT grad Ashley Wiebe turned in her Skywords wings and returned to the Corus fold. Ashley's last stint at CHED ended when she hopped aboard the Skywords service when it signed on for Newcap in September 2007.

Rounding out the re-assignments at the Corus-contracted Canadian Traffic Network, Kris Burkholder and Chris Hayden have been handed duties for Joe-FM and CISN, while Daintre Christensen and new-guy Shane Blakely can now be heard on CHED and iNews 880. Mileage for viewers of CTN's Global Edmonton TV coverage may vary as a result.

One-time radio fixture Chuck Chandler, who was heard "auditioning" at Capital 96.3 FM during a one-off Saturday shift in May, told the Edmonton Sun's Graham Hicks the response to his show was "incredible." Sources close to Newcap management say the opinion wasn't shared. As far as a regular shift for Chuck goes, no word is still the word.

Late reports from the iNews 880 camp suggest "staffing issues" are being sorted out. No doubt the grind of an all news operation is separating the wheat from the chaff. Stay tuned.

New Edmonton FM radio licence - hearings held

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission began holding public hearings on May 27th, 2008 to entertain applications for one – possibly two – new FM radio licences for the already crowded Edmonton market.

14 applicants are set to appear – see the » full details »

Out with the oldies and in with the news

Edmonton radio news junkies got a new place to score their fix when Corus Entertainment flipped CHQT Cool 880 to iNews 880, a cutting edge internet-driven news service » full details »

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december 2005

january 2006

february 2006

this and that | Warren Henderson, 1955 - 2006

march 2006

cbc am goes fm

april 2006

spring 2006 ratings | CHED takes off | it's OK, Rogers comes to town

june 2006

big round-up in country radio

july 2006

Terry Evans quits | late spring/early summer 2006 ratings

august 2006

ch-ch-changes | ch-ch-CHED-changes

september 2006

ch-ch-changes – and updates | Bill Matheson: 1926 - 2006

october 2006

edmonton radio ratings - late summer 2006

december 2006

edmonton radio ratings - fall 2006

april 2007

edmonton radio ratings - spring 2007 | who is that man?

july 2007

edmonton radio ratings - late spring/early summer 2007

august 2007

is Gord gone?

september 2007

the fall 2007 tv ad campaign | this and that

october 2007

edmonton radio ratings - summer 2007 | this and that

november 2007

new edmonton fm radio licence - call for applications | where is that man?

december 2007

edmonton radio ratings - fall 2007 | so you want to be a BOSS radio station? | subtle shifting at Shine FM

january 2008

Whitey's back | CRTC calls for diversity

february 2008

new edmonton fm radio licence - applications received | reporting from the courthouse

march 2008

cool 880 flips to all news | gord robson (1951 - 2008) | big earl belly flops

april 2008

edmonton radio ratings - spring 2008 | this and that

may 2008

out with the oldies and in with the news | new edmonton fm radio licence - hearings held | this and that

june 2008

Rogers answers back | this and that

july 2008

edmonton radio ratings - late spring/early summer 2008

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