YesterDaze wrote:Why was that?
I hope someone can be objective in explaining to me how a station with NW's super resources & manpower at that time, failed to get a substantial toehold going head-to-head with News 1130.
I don't need to hear again the party line from the Rogers fraternity, someone who was on the Corus side might be more objective.
Did the plug get pulled too soon? Couldn't CJNW be allowed to spill any more red ink?
From day one there was no reason for NW2 to exist. News 1130 had been on the air for 5 years. There was nothing different about NW2, except for the fact it was powered by CKNW. They blatantly copied the News 1130 clock, ran the same features at the same time. It may have had the resources of NW and the manpower, but there was no need for a second all news station in Vancouver (or just about any other North American city).
The station could have been a success if they had followed J. Paul's urgings to go all sports. Had they done that, they would have hity the air 3 monther before CHUM's TEAM Network hit the air.
Oh ya, the same dolts that built NW2 retooled the station a few years later and made it all sports . .this time, no need for a second all sports station.
In the 7 1/2 years the former CKLG has resided at the Black Tower, there have been at least 4 unsuccessful formats, who knows how many people's lives disrupted and how many millions of dollars pissed away.
I doubt AM 730 is high on Doug Rutherford's list of successes.
