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In my neck of the woods, Vancouver, Canada, nothing happened to radio. It was shit in the 1980s and it's the same today. Wait! Except for one major improvement
by kazinator 3mo ago
In my neck of the woods, Vancouver, Canada, nothing happened to radio. It was shit in the 1980s and it's the same today.
Wait! Except for one major improvement. There is a station CJNY ("The Journey") at 106.3 FM, which is run by Indigenous people:
https://www.cjnyfm.ca/about/ https://www.cjnyfm.ca/about/
- sefrost 3mo ago> In my neck of the woods, Vancouver, Canada, nothing happened to radio. The last sports radio station in Vancouver literally closed this month!
- Marsymars 3mo agoHah, one of the only tolerable commercial-ish stations in AB is Edmonton's 89.3 CIWE that broadcasts Freeform/First Nations content - also rebroadcasts to 88.1-HD3 in Calgary.
- corny 3mo agoI admit to not listening to radio anymore but I was surprised to hear that there are still some music stations with local DJ's in Vancouver. This article also claims that radio is slowly gaining listeners. https://www.vancitylookout.com/p/in-the-face-of-algorithms-and-ai-vancouver-s-music-radio-stations-continue-to-bet-on-human-curation https://www.vancitylookout.com/p/in-the-face-of-algorithms-a...
- kazinator 3mo agoi suspect there is a fairly large group of people who still listen to the radio---but only in the car. Once they park the car, radio ceases to exist.