CTS Extra 33: Kiss on the C-Isle

This time on CTS Extra, we are featuring 2 airchecks by request from
Rebecca in Moravia, NY, as she requested them for her birthday in early
October.  The first station she requested was WLYK "Kiss 102.7" from
Cape Vincent, NY.  Despite being licensed in the US, WLYK is LMA'd by
Canadian company Rogers Communications, and programs "Kiss" as a CHR
station targeting Kingston. Not mentioned in this extra is that WLYK is
controversial in that it is one of the stations being investigated by
the CRTC for targeting Canadian listeners from the US, therefore, it
is able to avoid Canadian Content (Cancon) rules. And, as Sean Ross
once observed in his column, Rogers is only programming 20% CanCon on
WLYK, VS the 45% it must program on actual Canadian licenses.  Cancon
or not, however, as you listen to this aircheck, you will find WLYK to
be current and up to date with it's presentation.  After exchanging
some kisses with Kingston, we travel to the next stop on Rebecca's
virtual radio birthday listening tour, Vancouver, BC, Canada.  There,
we'll listen to Standards/Easy Favorites station CISL "C-Isle 650."
This station plays a wide variety of oldies, and softer rock favorites
for Vancouver, and for Richmond, the city that is the island in CISL
and C-ISLe. We hope that you will enjoy these airchecks on this CTS
Extra, and, Rebecca, we hope these airchecks make your birthday a
little happier, as, per your request, on this edition of CTS Extra...
it's a Kiss on the C-Isle.

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GCR Changes as it Remains the Same.

Changes are coming to Geneva Community Radio, and Global Community Radio. What is Global Community Radio? What changes are coming to Geneva Community Radio. Listen to this podcast and find out!

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Clearing the Static 09-27-15

We open with Radio News Now. Then, Christmas music on the radio already in September! We discuss. We discuss Jake FM's Donald Trump stunt. A very interesting development in the Twin Cities where a religious broadcaster is getting a very sweet deal by selling its big FM signal in the market. Lastly, could Santa Rosa be getting a new commercial Classical station? Perhaps. It's all coming up on this edition of Clearing the Static.

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GCR offline as we relocate our streaming setup. CTS will be produced as normal.

Geneva Community Radio will be taken offline effective Thursday, September 24th. We are relocating our streaming setup. We will now have separate locations for our production facilities, still inside the Geneva Community Center, and our streaming operation will be moved back to its former base on Hamilton Street in Geneva.

This is being done to accommodate The Boys and Girls Club of Geneva which is in need of our former space in the community center for future club projects.

We will restore full time GCR streaming service as soon as possible. Check this space for the return of our normal program schedule.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We thank all of our listeners for their patience and understanding.

We are hoping to be back online by Sunday evening, 9/27. In the event we are not, we wanted our listeners to know that there will be a new CTS show this weekend. It will be uploaded to this website, and it will also air at its regular time on WQNA in Springfield, Illinois.

Clearing the Static 09-20-15

A lot to talk about this week. We open with Radio News Now. Then, we discuss, among other things, Salem's purchase of the remaining Radio Disney stations. What new formats will they put on those frequencies? And what of the new Conservative Talk format on 1260 in Boston? Is IHeart going to bring back Smooth Jazz to AM 1480 after the Pope's visit to Philadelphia? We're not betting on it! SiriusXM brings the Escape channel BACK to it's satellite lineup. And, the controversy surrounding a Denver DJ and Taylor Swift. Whom do we believe? That's all on this edition of Clearing the Static.

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CTS Extra 32 - Y94 Fargo

This time on CTS Extra, we present an aircheck of Y94 FM from Fargo, North Dakota. Thanks to our friend and frequent CTS contributor Bob Cavanaugh for making this CTS Extra possible.

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Clearing the Static 09-13-15

We welcome our first terrestrial radio affiliate, WQNA (88.3) in Springfield, Illinois. Then, it's on to Radio News Now. After that, we talk about the new Country station in Springfield. Can a third Country station succeed in the market? We discuss. Then, an upstate NY radio company is expanding into South Carolina. Could this be the beginning of bigger plans? What about the format shake ups in Reno, Nevada? And, what will happen to 1260 in Boston? We ponder it all on this edition of CTS from GCR. Don't miss it!

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