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Re: [IRCA] CP24 Radio is a disaster
Very sad to hear of CHUM format change.
> From: aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx; irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:42:20 -0400
> Subject: [IRCA] CP24 Radio is a disaster
>
> CP24 Radio is a disaster
>
> CHUM-AM, Toronto's first rock 'n' roll station, is gone. What's replaced it
> isn't airwave worthy
> By TED WOLOSHYN
>
> When I was about 10 years old, I recall scooping up one of my mother's old
> table lamps. I removed the lamp shade, tossed away the light bulb, stole my
> mother's nail polish and scribbled 1050 CHUM on the base of the lamp.
>
> Next to the lamp sat a Seabreeze turntable on which I played my 45s. In
> between songs, I spoke into this makeshift microphone, pretending to be a
> CHUM disc jockey, because even at that young age I knew that was what I
> wanted to be when I grew up -- a DJ at CHUM.
>
> But as a renowned Chicago D.J. once told a woman who suggested her son
> wanted to be a D.J. when he grew up, "Lady, tell your kid he can't do both."
>
> full article:
> http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/ted_woloshyn/2009/03/28/8914056-sun.html
>
>
> 73
>
> Mike Brooker
> Toronto, ON
>
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