Cross border TV & radio..

[Titan1a]

I listen to two Canadian stations; one in French from Alberta. I used to listen to Mexican stations but I get considerable QRM from the computer equipment. Besides their are two local Hispanic stations of which one is "supposedly" local. I prefer CFZM to any other station PERIOD!

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Titan1a

I listen to two Canadian stations; one in French from Alberta. I used to listen to Mexican stations but I get considerable QRM from the computer equipment. Besides their are two local Hispanic stations of which one is "supposedly" local. I prefer CFZM to any other station PERIOD!

+1 on CFZM aka AM 740, signal improves with cold weather coming up . CKLW was always clear no matter the season. There is one on 860 or 870 from Quebec that has very interesting music also.

[Jeffhs]

CKLW (AM) 800, "the big 8" in Windsor, was one of my favorite stations when I was growing up in the 1970s. John Belmont was a newscaster on the station at the time; either before or after CKLW switched to its all-talk format, he joined ABC News as a radio newscaster. As I do not listen much to AM radio anymore since most stations are now all talk, however, I don't know whether he is still with CKLW or what became of him.

The former CKLW (FM) is now CIDR "The River" and plays modern rock. That station, like CKLW-AM, came in to my area like gangbusters in the summer, although, unlike the AM station, CIDR/formerly CKLW-FM does not reach my area around this time of the year. There is an FM station about 10 miles from me, at 93.7 MHz on the FM dial, that just signed on (as in just over a year ago), however, that often (more often than not) spills over and ruins reception of any station at 93.9. I guess that doesn't bother the management of CIDR-FM, since their intended audience is Windsor-Detroit--not Cleveland or Lake County, Ohio, the latter being where I live.

BTW, one of Cleveland's major UHF television stations, the CBS affiliate on channel 19, transmits exclusively on DTV channel 10, which is giving station CFPL-TV in London, Ontario fits since the latter is getting co-channel interference from Cleveland's channel 19 (RF 10) in the summer, and vice-versa. The issue hasn't been resolved, nor do I think it will ever be since Cleveland's station flatly refuses (for financial reasons, no doubt) to install a translator for the one area its channel 10 (9.5 kW ERP) DTV signal does not reach--the area along the south shore of Lake Erie.

[zeno]

In the Boston area 1970's we would listen to CKLW often.
Since most car radios were AM only we often listened around to
find the music we wanted. Now I would say the most popular
Canajin AM is "AM 740, Toronto" Sry cant remember the call.
A real class act with big band & swing. Since that generation is
almost gone things are changing. Its sad as IMHO big band is second
only to Doo-Wop.
TV was out of range to us so you had to wait for some sporatic-E
to catch a glimpse. Not much different than ours but Canada
had Red Green, a show as good as any from anywheres.

73 Zeno
LFOD !