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Sunday, December 11, 2011

The fourth-quarter BBM ratings are in for Montreal & Toronto

PPM 360 Montreal's BBM ratings leader for English-language stations is news/talk CJAD-AM (800), which scored a dominating 24.4 share of the audience, among listeners age 2 and older. You can listen to "800-AM" here. Read More

Monday, February 28, 2011

Radio in Canada

Canada Montreal's Virgin Radio CJFM (95.9) morning co-host Cat Spencer is leaving, and will head across town to CFQR-FM (92.5). He's replacing Aaron Rand in mornings, who is leaving in just over one month ... Read More

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Radio in Canada

Canada Corus Radio appoints Suzanne Carpenter as GM of their three-station cluster in Toronto, overseeing news/talk CFMJ-AM (640), rock CFNY-FM (102.1 "The Edge" & classic rock CILQ-FM (107.1) ... In addition, Corus has re-upped John Derringer to host the Toronto CILQ-FM "Q-107" morning show, signing a 10-year (that's no typo) contract extension! Read More

Friday, December 10, 2010

Radio in Canada

Canada Vancouver's classic rock CFMI-FM (101.1) adds Mike Reno as a co-host in mornings on the Bro' Jake Show. If Reno's name sounds familiar, he was the lead singer of the rock group "Loverboy." (Think "Working For The Weekend.") Listen to "Rock 101" here ... Read More

Friday, September 10, 2010

Radio in Canada

Canada Toronto’s CHUM-FM (104.5) and APD/MD Barry Stewart have parted ways. Stewart had been with CHUM-FM for 33 years. Read More

Monday, March 15, 2010

At Canadian Music Week, Cautious Optimism

The Radioactive conference, held March 10-13 in Toronto as part of Canadian Music Week, was marked by the same cautious optimism that has characterized all radio gatherings this year. On the dais, industryites congratulated Canadian radio for never making the same draconian increases in spotload or use of network radio as their American counterpart… Read More

Monday, August 31, 2009

Arbitron's PPM powers TV ratings in Canada's electronic markets, radio ratings in 5 big markets

Arbitron says the result, administered by Canada’s BBM consortium of broadcasters and other users, is “the world’s largest combined TV and radio media measurement panel”, and it’s keyed to the People Meter device pioneered by Arbitron. As Arbitron CEO Michael Skarzynski says, “the PPM technology is designed to measure exposure to all audible media.… Read More

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