jon wrote:Less well documented are the plugging of loopholes in CanCon that CKLW had been exploiting.
With the loopholes, many tunes on Detroit based labels (Westbound, Sussex etc) were either recorded or mixed down at studios in Windsor. This gave the song a "P" for Can-Con, and it counted.
Once these songs no longer counted as Can-Con, CKLW took on a very vanilla sound like CHUM in Toronto and the glory days for The Big 8 were on the decline.