radiofan wrote:Remember when CJJC hung up it's cowboy boots and got a new name, a new home and new music? Didn't Ernie Mykyte build new studios next to or below a bowling alley on Glover Road in Langley? I know they didn't stay there for long. In the CKST era they were above a bank or Credit Union on Fraser Highway before moving to Vancouver.
Here's a couple of AM 800 UP Radio jingles and an Ed Bain weather forecast.
AM 800 CJUP
This thread reminded me of a discussion here several years ago about the disaster that was the move from 850 to 800 KHz.
I don't think I mentioned it at the time but, in my youthful innocence, I wrote an Intervention Letter to the CRTC against the move. Rumour at the time was that Joe Chesney took a dislike to me in particular and DX'ers in general as a result of that letter.
Looking back on it now, 40 years later, the presence of KGMI-790 in Bellingham, would make the 800 idea sound like a disaster in the making. KGMI is and was 5000 watts day, non-directional, and 1000 watts night, with a figure 8 pattern with one end of it pushing the equivalent of several thousand watts towards Langley.
If the goal was to "hit" Vancouver, there were certainly other frequencies available that would have been a better choice than 800. With KTAC Tacoma with 10KW in the day, and 50KW KOA in Denver at night, 850 was certainly a lousy frequency. But 800 doesn't sound much better.
I know there was talk in the previous discussion of Joe feeling betrayed by the broadcast engineers who originally designed the 800 pattern and application. But were AM frequencies really that tight in the Lower Mainland back then that a better place to move was not suggested?