adma
Superstar
Well, I guess this is what happens when the generation who only listened to the station for Brave New Waves grows up and takes power...
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Mix 99.9 Becomes Virgin Radio Effective Today
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Well, I guess this is what happens when the generation who only listened to the station for Brave New Waves grows up and takes power...
JasonParis
Moderator
Haha, well said.
Benc7
Active Member
And that's the point: the narrow compartmentalization of radio listening. Radio 2 provided a venue for ALL KINDS of music and, more importantly, the erudite conversation that informed the listener along with it. One could turn it on in the morning and by late evening have been taken on a journey through much of the history of music. from the ancient to the modern, from the serious to the down right silly. I didn't confine myself to listening only to "Brave New Waves" any more than I confined myself to listening to "Disc Drive". Radio 2 was a unique, eclectic venue and is, sadly to say, to be found no where else.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Even though Radio 2 is becoming Radio Gaga in the original sense that Queen's song was written - as a critique of the decreasing variety of programming and music on the radio - rather than the actually recorded version ( a nostalgic paean to radio in an age of music videos ) we still have concerts, Benc7. Toronto's a grrrreat live music town!
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All we hear is radio ga ga
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Radio what's new ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAVVVMcTShQ
Benc7
Active Member
So apropos and so true! I'm in mourning at the moment, and I'll recover. This IS a great music town and I take advantage of it whenever I can...but at 8:00 am, with coffee in hand and the newspaper spread out, it's CBC 2 I want. Ok, I'm done now. It was very cathartic. Thank you.
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virgin radio? what is it? some sort of evangelical christain station that promotes abstinence only programming?
adma
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I like to call Z103.5 "Whore Radio". It sounds like the kind of radio strippers & whores & pre-Juno underclass teen mom types listen to.
So does virtually all "rhythmic" Top 40 from the past 20 years, for that matter.
So does virtually all "rhythmic" Top 40 from the past 20 years, for that matter.
JasonParis
Moderator
I like to call "Zee 103" "Zed 103" and "E-Zee Rock" (97.3) "E-Zed Rock" personally.
Back to Radio 2 for a moment though...
The CBC only has two English signals and any attempt to get more from the CRTC hasn't been successful (which is why Radio 3 is internet and Sirius only). Therefore, is it really fair that one of those signals should be completely devoted to classical music? Ideally, if our pubcaster were funded like the BBC, we'd have six English radio services and one would be fully classical. However, with two signals I find it quite amazing that there's people in this country who feel one of those two publically-funded signals should be all classical all the time.
Back to Radio 2 for a moment though...
The CBC only has two English signals and any attempt to get more from the CRTC hasn't been successful (which is why Radio 3 is internet and Sirius only). Therefore, is it really fair that one of those signals should be completely devoted to classical music? Ideally, if our pubcaster were funded like the BBC, we'd have six English radio services and one would be fully classical. However, with two signals I find it quite amazing that there's people in this country who feel one of those two publically-funded signals should be all classical all the time.
Blovertis
Active Member
Personally, I'd like to hear a lot more Queen on CBC Radio 2.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
CBC Radio 2 wasn't "completely devoted to classical music" before the cuts - the classics have been reduced from 12 hours a day to five. The CBC has also decided to restrict the format to the "accessible" classics.
But CFMZ 96.3 is already providing that kind of pleasant, entry-level classical music 24 hours a day - suitable for newbies to the genre or people who want familiar, happy-happy classics as background music while they potter around the house all day. What is lost, as Benc7 indicates, is anything that's at all challenging, or new, and informed discussion of it.
It's The Cheapening applied to the cultural scene.
For a publicly-funded national broadcaster to downgrade their committment to the music that our great symphony orchestras play, that our opera companies and choirs and chamber musicians perform, that a large and growing audience goes to live concerts to hear, that represents us qualitatively on the international stage, and that students are drawn from all over the world study to our conservatories to learn to play, strikes many of us as very shortsighted.
But CFMZ 96.3 is already providing that kind of pleasant, entry-level classical music 24 hours a day - suitable for newbies to the genre or people who want familiar, happy-happy classics as background music while they potter around the house all day. What is lost, as Benc7 indicates, is anything that's at all challenging, or new, and informed discussion of it.
It's The Cheapening applied to the cultural scene.
For a publicly-funded national broadcaster to downgrade their committment to the music that our great symphony orchestras play, that our opera companies and choirs and chamber musicians perform, that a large and growing audience goes to live concerts to hear, that represents us qualitatively on the international stage, and that students are drawn from all over the world study to our conservatories to learn to play, strikes many of us as very shortsighted.
JasonParis
Moderator
I'm hardly a classical afficianado, so I can't comment on the quality of the classics on the new 2 to be quite honest. If indeed they've been "dumbed down" than I can understand your objections.
However, classical music is still the most-played genre on Radio 2 and there's a new dedicated internet stream for the classics as well.
I do continue to stand by my point though that Radio 2 should be broadly based and appeal to a wide range of music fans and play a wide variety of music not generally heard of commercial radio. We all pay into this thing and it should be reflective of us.
However, classical music is still the most-played genre on Radio 2 and there's a new dedicated internet stream for the classics as well.
I do continue to stand by my point though that Radio 2 should be broadly based and appeal to a wide range of music fans and play a wide variety of music not generally heard of commercial radio. We all pay into this thing and it should be reflective of us.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Yesterday in the 'hood - CBC's midday classical ghetto - the announcer broke in after the largo of Dvorak's 9th: Yo, homeys, two movements to go, don't roll out yet. Duh! As if we would. Then we got a quick plug for Radio 2, like it was a real commercial station. Cool beans!
Cast_Member
Active Member
This sounds like what Virgin/Mix is heading for.
adma
Superstar
Naw, more likely Sarah Palinesque 40somethings who never lost their inner Duran-loving CFTR listener. "Stop it, Mom, you're embarassing me."
adma
Superstar
And re the Radio 2 thing, check this out