C-FAX AM radio Victoria | AM 1070

[VicHockeyFan]

Originally Posted by Holden West

Rather than re-runs, I'm sure enough people here would be willing to volunteer. I think we could have a wide range of shows:

-The Libertarian Hour (Call-in)
-Swingin' Bachelor Pad (Lifestyle)
-It Was Better in the 1950s (History)
-Food Cart of the Week (On Location)
-Eye On City Hall (Politics)

We gotta have a Trolley Show, we have a great intro lined up.

OK, and YET ANOTHER new low. Tonight's SportsTalk repeated the 10-11 hour again from 11-12. Now who would not change the station with a schedule like that? I have NEVER heard SportsTalk ever repeat in the same night, it's always a three-hour show.

[Holden West]

SportsTalk is imported over from CKNW. That's doubly cheap.

[VicHockeyFan]

Yet another new low today. CFAX played the exact same one-hour infomercial today at 3pm then again at 5pm. It's the same one they generally play every weekend, but I'm not sure I've ever heard it twice in the same day.

[LJ]

Thank god for satellite radio.

At least you can get the BBC!!

[G-Man]

I believe that British taxpayers may pay for that...

[VicHockeyFan]

Originally Posted by VicHockeyFan

Whoops, I meant $1B.

The mothership employs over 10,000 people (at an average wage of $75,500 each).

[VicHockeyFan]

Originally Posted by G-Man

I believe that British taxpayers may pay for that...

...but only if you have a TV. If not, no fee. Of course, if you have a TV and never watch BBC, you still pay £150 a year for your TV license..

[gumgum]

^ You don't need to pay the license to listen to BBC radio. In fact, anybody in the world can listen to every BBC station online (and there are several), and there are many podcasts available.

Speaking of podcasts, that's something else cfax doesn't offer that CBC does. Don't t want to miss you favourite show? Subscribe to it as a podcast.

[victorian fan]

I listen to BBC Radio all day long.
Thank goodness for listen again.

[VicHockeyFan]

Originally Posted by victorian fan

I listen to BBC Radio all day long.
Thank goodness for listen again.

I watch a bit of BBC World News. I'm a big fan of HARDtalk. Stephen Sackur is great.

[Bingo]

It would make for better listening if CFAX could eliminate the echo chamber effect from some of their broadcasts. This glitch has appeared from time to time ever since they moved to the new location.

[VicHockeyFan]

I interrupt this thread momentarily to bring you Frank Stanford:

[bcjosh]

Originally Posted by Bingo

It would make for better listening if CFAX could eliminate the echo chamber effect from some of their broadcasts. This glitch has appeared from time to time ever since they moved to the new location.

There is also a new email notification that periodically dings and drives me nuts.

[sebberry]

Originally Posted by bcjosh

There is also a new email notification that periodically dings and drives me nuts.

Such as the one that just notified me of this post

[Rob Randall]

Bruce Carter from the Chamber and me will be the guests on the Lunch Bunch today at 12:30 p.m.

We'll probably be discussing the Northern Junk sale, The Rogers Chocolates building, the local economy and whatever else we can fit in.

[VicHockeyFan]

Thanks to the magic of (unedited) tape-delayed CFAX programming at night, Charles Adler just interrupted his program to announce Gordon Lighfoot's death at 6:52pm tonight, complete with a little snippet of "If you could read my mind".

Actually, it might have been worth it to hear a little of this amazing song:

Video Link

I saw GL here about 10 years ago, it was an awesome show.

[Mike K.]

It's a hoax. He be not dead.

[gumgum]

Sounds like he's singing behind a giant fan.

[VicHockeyFan]

More strange CFAX stuff.

7:06pm The newscaster reported that Canada was up 3-1 over the Swiss, in the second period. Actually, it was 2-2, and in overtime already. You'd think that A) They'd get the score right, and B) They'd have an up-to-date score seeing as how this is a very important game. But I could hear someone putting together the newscast because they were dong it and it was overlapping their programming for 10 minutes, I could hear them cueing the clips, now I wonder if the 7pm news was recorded some time in advance.

7:20pm Gordon Lightfoot (on tape-delay) called into the Charles Adler show to talk about how he wasn't dead.

^ ^ Yes, Mike, I know already that the hoax was many hours ago, but what I'm getting at is that CFAX didn't bother to edit their nightly show so the hoax would not be repeated.

Oh, good. CFAX is repeating Adler again, so I predict that at 8:52 he will announce that Gordon Lightfoot is dead.

[Mike K.]

It fooled me.

[victorian fan]

Video Link

[VicHockeyFan]

Capital mourns Clare Copeland, 85

By Cindy E. Harnett May 16, 2010

The man who built up CFAX from a scrawny dusk-to-dawn radio station, co-founded powerhouse Copeland Communications, and was behind the “unite-the-right” campaign to oust B.C. NDP Premier Dave Barrett in the early 1970s, has died.

Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Ca...#ixzz0oCfhJnso

[VicHockeyFan]

FEDS LOOK TO DO AWAY WITH LIGHTHOUSES

Jun 8, 2010

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS LOOKING TO GET RID OF LIGHTHOUSES, SOMETHING ONE FORMER LIGHTHOUSE OWNER SAYS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE

JIM ABRAM SPOKE TO /A\ VANCOUVER ISLAND TUESDAY AND CALLS THIS IDEA DISGUSTING, ESPECIALLY AFTER LIGHTHOUSES HAVE ALREADY BEEN DE-STAFFED

"you know they're looking at those staffed light stations right now 27 of them here, 24 on the East coast, and they are before a senate committee. But these ones that they're trying to give away to communities etc., it's just another federal or provincial downloading of responsibility to either local governments or local communities. It's totally unacceptable"

THE STATEMENT ON THE FISHERIES AND OCEANS WEBSITE SAYS INDIVIDUALS, MUNICIPALITIES AND NON PROFITS MAY APPLY TO HAVE LIGHTHOUSES SAVED AS HERITAGE SIGHTS

A LARGE NUMBER OF BC'S 19 LIGHTHOUSES LINE VANCOUVER ISLAND'S COAST

- ANDREA BOYES

http://cfax1070.com/newsstory.php?newsId=13926

Hmmm, I don't get it. First of all, it would be heritage sites. And the guy is talking about 27 manned stations here, and she talks about BC having 19, and that wiki list shows 30 or so lighthouses, lights, and lighstations. I also suspect the guy never owned a lighthouse, but maybe kept it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...itish_Columbia

[pontcanna]

Amazing how long CFAX has been the "old fogey" station and how jarring it sometimes sounds when they changed to "rock and roll" filler music (CCR, CSNY etc.) to accompany Joe Easingwood, Frank Stanford et al. You almost expect someone to come on and rant about the "devil's music" played by Elvis.

[victorian fan]

Originally Posted by pontcanna

Amazing how long CFAX has been the "old fogey" station and how jarring it sometimes sounds when they changed to "rock and roll" filler music (CCR, CSNY etc.) to accompany Joe Easingwood, Frank Stanford et al. You almost expect someone to come on and rant about the "devil's music" played by Elvis.

(You're the) Devil In Disguise - Elvis