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Sep 30, 2026
Alan CrossGUEST
that had a very, very limited range until we got into the CN Tower in 1983.
Alan CrossGUEST
In 1979, David decided that he became the program director and he decided that we needed to pivot away from the giants of the Toronto rock radio scene, which at that time were Chum FM and Q107.
Alan CrossGUEST
We had to find another audience because we were going to lose.
Alan CrossGUEST
There was just no way that we were going to compete at their level playing their music.
Mike BoonHOST
What stations would you have listened to growing up in Scarborough?
Ian CunninghamGUEST
Yeah, CFNY and Q107.
Mike BoonHOST
Okay.
Mike BoonHOST
And I don't know, I won't, you know, I won't ask you your age, but I'm guessing you were too young for the spirit of radio era at CFNY.
Ted WoloshynHOST
There was a problem in terms of CRTC regulations whereby you had to play a different kind of music.
Ted WoloshynHOST
You could not play the same kind of hits that were being played on Chum FM or Q107, which had just come into being around that time, late 70s, right?
David MarsdenGUEST
That was how the whole thing was built on.
David MarsdenGUEST
We are not going to play the music the other guys are playing.
Ted WoloshynHOST
I was fortunate enough to work at CFNY for a number of years.
Ted WoloshynHOST
You hired me to come.
Ted WoloshynHOST
I was doing a show on Q107 called The Comedy Bowl, which is an hour-long show focusing on various comedians from the past, current comedians, and interviews and stuff, right? So I had taken that show and brought it to you, and you said, yeah, we got room for this because every station had a promise of performance that they had to fill, and part of that was spoken word, and that fulfilled part of that spoken word obligation.
Ted WoloshynHOST
Yeah.
David MarsdenGUEST
At the time, they were broken up.
David MarsdenGUEST
Geetz, David, was at Q107.
David MarsdenGUEST
And Peter, did I just pop a P there?
Mike BoonHOST
I do that all the
David MarsdenGUEST
And you were essentially talking three radio stations.
David MarsdenGUEST
And earlier I mentioned...
David MarsdenGUEST
the openness that Dave Farrell brings to CFNY, but prior to that, if you worked at Chamber of M, you did not talk to people who worked at Q107, and if you worked at Q107, and vice versa.
David MarsdenGUEST
And so we couldn't really be seen talking.
Colin JamesGUEST
Well, that's nice to know.
Colin JamesGUEST
You know, I do, I do come from that, you know, and I remember the days when they would put me like in CFNY or some station like Q107.
Colin JamesGUEST
Yeah.
Colin JamesGUEST
And they would let me play an acoustic guitar live.
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Mike BoonHOST
I'm old enough.
Mike BoonHOST
I was around when you were breaking.
Mike BoonHOST
And Q107 was playing a lot.
Mike BoonHOST
Yeah.
Mike BoonHOST
You must have your eyes, you know, looking at 102.1. Like, will you, What happens to CFNY with the new ownership?
Bob WilletteGUEST
Who knows? I mean, if they'll look at the ratings and they'll look, you know, the brand that's keeping the lights on in Toronto is Q107.
Bob WilletteGUEST
Q107 is doing quite well, generally speaking.
Mike BoonHOST
It's all that Max Webster stuff.
Mike BoonHOST
Generally
Bob WilletteGUEST
speaking, Q107 is a top five or six radio station in Toronto, adults 25, 54, where the edge is somewhere between eight and 10, probably maybe, maybe, maybe seven to 10, depending on what's going on.
Bob WilletteGUEST
So and then 640 is not even on the top 20 of that.
Bob WilletteGUEST
So, you know, that costs you a lot of money to run an AM radio station, costs you a lot of money to keep that station on the air.
Richard SyrettGUEST
It can just take you back.
Richard SyrettGUEST
I remember exactly where I was, where I was sitting, what I was wearing the first time I heard John Lennon's mind games playing on Q107 in Toronto, sitting home for lunch from high school, sitting on the sofa in the living room.
Richard SyrettGUEST
And I'd never heard it before.
Richard SyrettGUEST
And it just, I was on my knees.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
So let's go back to 1976 and even before that, that you guys were... doing regular shows at the New Yorker or doing events at the New Yorker.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
But I was thinking about Toronto in 1976 because in later years, you worked with us at CFNY and you did a little bit of work with Q107.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
You had a show there.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
Even you worked with Chum FM on one of the police picnics.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
So in that time frame, there was no Q107 and there was no real CFNY to speak of.
Ivor HamiltonHOST
Who did you, when you did this first Ramon show, tell me how it happened and who did you work with to promote it?
Gary ToppGUEST
Okay, well...
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Gary ToppGUEST
Years later, in 1980, when we were doing The Edge, Gary Slate, who was the...
Jennifer BeavisGUEST
That's why it's a micropenny, as opposed to terrestrial radio, where...
Jennifer BeavisGUEST
I'm in Toronto, right? So one argument is you're listening to Q107.
Jennifer BeavisGUEST
And at that point, 50,000 people are listening to that same song.
Jennifer BeavisGUEST
That's based on what ad people sell their inventory to for all those things.
Jennifer BeavisGUEST
So as a performer, and if your listeners are there, they need to join.
Jennifer BeavisGUEST
If they're ACTRA, MFN, whoever it is that your association as a performer and musician, please join and you will get revenue from Radio Airplay as an artist.
Mako FunasakaHOST
Everybody complains about how horrible streaming pays, but if you had a decent hit in 2026 that was covered by radio stations like Q107 or whatever, Would you get the same amount of money that you used to get 15 years ago? Not even
Jennifer BeavisGUEST
close.
ChristopherHOST
And one of those songs was something that Derry Graham had written called New Girl Now.
ChristopherHOST
The band recorded a demo and entered it into Q107's homegrown contest in Toronto, and in 1983, they won.
ChristopherHOST
And that gave New Girl Now exactly the kind of exposure that they needed.
ChristopherHOST
WEA Canada signed Honeymoon Suite to a multi-album deal, and suddenly the band that had been sneaking original songs into their bar sets was making their own first album.
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