Maybe John and Mike can launch onto KABC with a Roctober bang taking over for FHF? I hear they want to skew younger.

Clearly, you heard wrong.

R.I.P Greg Giraldo, we'll miss ya...

You mean that the mid-morning audience aren't vital and young who want something different? Oh right, they are all bitter stuck up secretaries waiting to indulge at lunch with the wicked weight watchers desert cup or people at home that are too lazy to get up and if it isn't 'queer enough' will just roll with it until something less scary comes on.

There are only two males on this planet that can cause teenage girls to riot- Justin Beiber and Larry Elder.

Well you, my friend, never listened to the Paul Meyers show (brother of Mike Meyers) om MOJO 730AM Vancouver. I am not kidding, he would start off the show with the Mary Kate and Ashley thought of the day.

MOJO was a very, VERY bad KLSX rip off, and he was the warm body filling in between the hocky show at noon and Leykis at 3. I was the ONLY listener, prizes would go unclaimed because no one called in. I once won 3 sets of movie tickets in one day, giving fake names.

I swear I was the only person listening. The station was killed by the feds when they told them to drop Leykis or have their license pulled even though it was illegal, and admitted it, they would have lost all 4 Vancouver stations, 2 in the top 5 and one in the top ten...and poor old Mojo that couldn't even beat the public access station. It is a shame, because CFOX 730 and CKLG 730 had in different eras been the top 70s rock and 80s pop stations going. They used to broadcast from a bunker at Nelson and Richards (prime hooker row) and it was magical. All killed by fucking corporate radio, in this case Shaw/Chorus. They killed the modern CFOX FM too, and only because they didn't want to compete against the other station they owned and freaked out when an upstart station hurt them in one ratings book (which them plumeted because of bad tallent, bad ads, and a horrible signal).

That is when radio died for me, for a short time I found a good modern and alternative rock station out of Victoria, but the signal was shit and I coldn't get it on my walkman. It was a Canadian Content clone of KNDD The End of Seattle. Then I started streaming the original JackFM stream long before it was ever ripped off and put on 'real radio'.

I recently found out a lot about the Canadian content restriction talking with a radio bull who had worked up there for some time. The stations with older licenses only have to play 30-35% Canadian content, but stations with newer licenses sometimes are in the 40-70% range, because companies will up the percentage as a way to get the license.

However, once they get the license, their ratings suffer because they can't compete effectively with the stations that have lower restrictions. On top of that, if a Canadian band (say Nickelback) does become hugely popular and moves to LA or whatever, they no longer count as "Canadian Content".

I also found out that stations like 89X in Windsor (in the Detroit metro area) either don't have the content restrictions, or have them much lower, like in the 10-20% range, as they couldn't compete with the US stations otherwise.

The restriction does help explain why a band like The Tragically Hip have been very big in Canada for a long time, but could never get any traction in the United States, even the states right on the border.

Did I miss something, or was the Big Wednesday Announcement that Salwin is now going to be helping out over at Fitzdog?

Um, the big Wednesday annoucement was right in the title. It's " YOU'VE GOT DADDY ISSUES."