Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!lsuc!hcr!jim
From: jim@hcr.uucp (Jim Sullivan)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: CFNY: is the spirit returning?
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.145700.6489@hcr.uucp>
Date: 1 Dec 89 14:57:00 GMT
References: <7799@aimed.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@titan.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
Distribution: tor
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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In article <7799@aimed.UUCP> ross@aimed.UUCP (Ross Morrissey) writes:
>My radio has been tuned to CFNY more or less by default for years.

As has mine (at home at least. during the day i listen to ckln)

>Since the station was sold, flakey on-air personalities have been disappearing
>and names from the past keep cropping up.  I can't even remember the names of
>the banished flakes (hey, its been days), but yesterday morning I heard Live
>Earl Jive and Beverley Hills talking to Reiner Schwartz about Don Berns in 
>the afternoon.  What gives?  Anyone know if this is part of a scheme to bring
>back commercial alternative radio?

I read somewhere that Reiner Schwartz was taking over as program director
and would be responsible for establishing the ``sound of the 90's''.
Personally, I think that this is great.  I've always liked Reiner's work
(remember Night Music on public cable in the mid 70's?  Videos (!) of Nash
the Slash, FM, the glass orchestra...).

The sad thing is that the Live Earl Jive and Beverley are going to start a
weekend morning show (6:00-9:00).  This is a shame because it means that
Masters and Moderns will disappear.  Often, this is the only way I can
realize that it is the weekend!

>I still remember, years ago, Earl Jive announcing: "...and that was Tubular
>Bells, by Mike Oldfield...and now, side two..."  Maybe there's more of this
>on the way.

Yes, but will we ever hear Throbbing Gristle again?

Jim Sullivan


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