AM rocker from Ottawa late 80's

[CCemployee]

I am from Philadelphia, PA and I remember a station I used to listen to from Ottawa in the late 1980's. I would pick them up at night, loud and clear every night.  The frequency was around 540-550, don't know exactly.  I never heard a rocker on AM before, and it was a treat to listen to. They played great rock music and I used to call in many times, they always took my requests and put me on the air now and then.  They knew me as the Flyers Guy from Philly.  I cannot receive any trace of this station now-adays, are they still around and if so, are they still rocking.  Thanks...

[agreenbe]

the station was 54 rock and they moved over to fm in the early 90's..they are known as 106.9 The Bear.

> I am from Philadelphia, PA and I remember a station I used
> to listen to from Ottawa in the late 1980's. I would pick
> them up at night, loud and clear every night.  The frequency
> was around 540-550, don't know exactly.  I never heard a
> rocker on AM before, and it was a treat to listen to. They
> played great rock music and I used to call in many times,
> they always took my requests and put me on the air now and
> then.  They knew me as the Flyers Guy from Philly.  I cannot
> receive any trace of this station now-adays, are they still
> around and if so, are they still rocking.  Thanks...
>

[opies]

... and the station is only a watered down version of its former AM days.



> the station was 54 rock and they moved over to fm in the
> early 90's..they are known as 106.9 The Bear.
>
> > I am from Philadelphia, PA and I remember a station I used
>
> > to listen to from Ottawa in the late 1980's. I would pick
> > them up at night, loud and clear every night.  The
> frequency
> > was around 540-550, don't know exactly.  I never heard a
> > rocker on AM before, and it was a treat to listen to. They
>
> > played great rock music and I used to call in many times,
> > they always took my requests and put me on the air now and
>
> > then.  They knew me as the Flyers Guy from Philly.  I
> cannot
> > receive any trace of this station now-adays, are they
> still
> > around and if so, are they still rocking.  Thanks...
> >
>

[CCemployee]

Thanks for the info, it seems they are not as good as when they were on AM.  That was the question I was going to ask you, are they as good as they were when on AM, I guess you answered that.  The were so good they outdid the Rock FM stations in Philly I listened to, so at night I had them on all the time.  Is there anything on 540 now since they moved, seems like its dead air at night.

[go14]

> Thanks for the info, it seems they are not as good as when
> they were on AM.  That was the question I was going to ask
> you, are they as good as they were when on AM, I guess you
> answered that.  The were so good they outdid the Rock FM
> stations in Philly I listened to, so at night I had them on
> all the time.  Is there anything on 540 now since they
> moved, seems like its dead air at night.
>


540 went dead a few months after they flipped. 54 Rock is still one of my all-time favourites.

[Yeziknoradio]

> 540 went dead a few months after they flipped. 54 Rock is
> still one of my all-time favourites.
>
They were up against Energy 1200, so I gather the battle back then was like the battle between Toronto's hog at 640 (in 1990) and 680 CFTR, only with better ratings for both stations, than the ratings CHOG pulled in.

Regardless, the move to FM is smart for ANY rock format anyway.
I wish the Hog were an FM station.
That would have been nice, but also impossible thanks to the 49% non hit rule for fm in Canada back then.

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[ian]

> I wish the Hog were an FM station.
> That would have been nice, but also impossible thanks to the
> 49% non hit rule for fm in Canada back then.
>

Not impossible at all. When 54 Rock moved to FM they still had their hard-edge and attitude and kept it all nice and legal in reagrds to non-hit.

[CCemployee]

How much power were they cranking out and were they directional toward Philly??  They always had a great signal as soon as dusk moved in.

[ian]

> How much power were they cranking out and were they
> directional toward Philly??  They always had a great signal
> as soon as dusk moved in.
>

http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/495424-66879.pdf

[Yeziknoradio]

> > I wish the Hog were an FM station.
> > That would have been nice, but also impossible thanks to
> the
> > 49% non hit rule for fm in Canada back then.
> >
>
> Not impossible at all. When 54 Rock moved to FM they still
> had their hard-edge and attitude and kept it all nice and
> legal in reagrds to non-hit.
>
Were they a top 40 rock hybrid as the Bear? Or the Variety rock they are today?
I also forgot at the time of my last posting, that CDN music was granted a year as hit music before it could be counted as a part of the 51% hit content.

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