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[andysradio]

https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/K ... mat#508326

[andysradio]

I am sure Kamloops really needs an AM music station - not.

[Aaron]

I am sure Kamloops really needs an AM music station - not.

Of course they don’t. This is just turning it off without literally shutting the transmitter off.

[Just sayin']

How long can Corus (16 cents/share today) keep the lights on at NW? Labor intensive, lots of promos using inventory indicating slow sales.

[crs]

Hello Kamloops. Get ready for the "no repeat workday". Same hundred songs everyday, just played in a different order. Corporate pinheads are never wrong

[Rocky]

Is there anything Stinkray bought that they haven't sucked the life out of and reduced them to mindless jukeboxes?

Most will remember the days when NL Radio was the CKNW of Kamloops. NL and IQ in Kelowna were the training grounds and talent pool for CKNW and other major market stations news rooms.

Bell's AM 1150 in Kelowna is also a dumpster fire just waiting to happen. Some old guy in the morning talking to himself for 3 hours and then syndicated shows from Bell and Corus along with "Best Of" morning show replays the rest of the day and night. Really creative radio.

So glad to see the CRTC enforces Promise Of Performance portions of licenses.

Radio as we knew it is over, sad to say.

[Aaron]

Is there anything Stinkray bought that they haven't sucked the life out of and reduced them to mindless jukeboxes?

This has nothing to do with Stingray. They just happened to be holding the keys when the ad market collapsed. A commercial AM News/Talk radio station in Kamloops is impossible.

There is no such thing as a "Promise of performance" to enforce.

[gwp]

Is there anything Stinkray bought that they haven't sucked the life out of and reduced them to mindless jukeboxes?

Most will remember the days when NL Radio was the CKNW of Kamloops. NL and IQ in Kelowna were the training grounds and talent pool for CKNW and other major market stations news rooms.

Bell's AM 1150 in Kelowna is also a dumpster fire just waiting to happen. Some old guy in the morning talking to himself for 3 hours and then syndicated shows from Bell and Corus along with "Best Of" morning show replays the rest of the day and night. Really creative radio.

So glad to see the CRTC enforces Promise Of Performance portions of licenses.

Radio as we knew it is over, sad to say.

Okanagan Radio - Penticton, Osoyoos, Summerland, Princeton, Grand Forks once had ten people in it's newsrooms. Osoyoos, Summerland, Princeton, and Grand Forks are now repeaters. Grand Forks out of Trail, the others out of Penticton. There were 45-50 employees in 1988.

[KamloopsRadioDude]

NL has been a complete dumpster fire for the last 2 years.

Just like many media reporting, unbelievably biased and spewing senseless opinion.

While this might have been a corporate decision, the local "talent" did this station no favours and alienated any potential advertisers long ago.

Good riddance - but still hate to see the NL brand decimated.

Wannabe Brett Mineer can take the large amount of credit for his brutal shows or arrogance and hatred during his "shows".

Feel bad for the rest of hte staff, but surely they have seen the writing on the wall long ago.

[the-real-deal]

Some old guy in the morning talking to himself for 3 hours and then syndicated shows from Bell and Corus along with "Best Of" morning show replays the rest of the day and night. Really creative radio.

LOL I saw that "old guy" (Phil Johnston) at the bank lineup, a few years ago. He looked like a dumpster fire, actually (to use your own words) and not far from personal demise.

I say (sadly) most of the old folk on this site fit that description. So yeah, go have your "get-together meetups" at the local saloon, while you're still breathing?

[radio knob]

Simple Fix.
Individual or Company can own 1 AM / 1 FM / 1 TV / newspaper? / That's it. Let the rest fight a battle to grab eyes and ears the honest way. Public airways? Let more of the public have access. Not 3 congloms that cookie cut across the land.

[everhopeful]

Of course they don’t. This is just turning it off without literally shutting the transmitter off.

Who knows how long the transmitter will last. There is a subdivision being built now right across Rose Hill road from NL's towers. At some point, the land value will exceed the revenue that NL generates, and also maintaining 5 towers up there can't be inexpensive either. I think they are testing the waters with the oldies format... if it finds a following, they might flip to FM with a transmitter at a different location, if it doesn't, they will probably shut down the station when a land deal is finalized in the future.