iNews didn't get on the air until 6:30.  The last song to play was Kenny Loggins, 'Your Daddy Don't Rock and Roll'.  It should be noted that if iNews did get on the air at 6:00, the last song would have been Don McLean's 'American Pie'.  

The switch over and sign on of iNews880, available here: http://www.brilliantidea.ca/inews880_edit_2.mp3
The file is roughly 8 MB in size.

I also have the entire first half hour if anyone wants it.  

Those looking to get away from Bryan Hall by switching to iNews -- no such luck, he's doing the sports reports, although he only gets 2 minutes every half hour.

Sounds good!

I've been listening to inews880 this morning and have been pleasantly surprised at how good it sounds. Obviously, they've prepared well. My only complaint is that the station's subdued sound doesn't fit Bryan Hall, who is doing sports. I've always liked Bryan, but he doesn't fit in with the sound.

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Those looking to get away from Bryan Hall by switching to iNews -- no such luck, he's doing the sports reports, although he only gets 2 minutes every half hour.

This is exactly what I was dreading when I first heard CHQT was going all news...

Hope News 102.3 gets approved.

Those looking to get away from Bryan Hall by switching to iNews -- no such luck, he's doing the sports reports, although he only gets 2 minutes every half hour.


Sigh.

I am liking what I am hearing for the most part.  I would be interested to know if other 660News listeners have had a listen to 880 and what they're opinions are.  

I wouldn't be surprised if Reelworld did their jingle package, since the signature of their music is similar to some of their other news/talk/sports packages.

I'm listening right now... Jamey Nie is dong sports.  Overall sound has been wonderful for the past half hour.  I had no problem at all getting on, online.  

I listened for a bit this morning.  Interesting take on the Rogers wheel.  Noticed the production package is nearly identical to CFAX 1070's latest sounders.  Haven't heard any dual anchoring going on, sounds like they have the two anchors working off one workstation.  It would sound better if there was more interplay between them and the other people on-air.

http://inews880.com/

thats the link to the site.... Sounds good! Does anyone know who is doing the liners? He sounds familiar!

The style of format for news information has been done for sometime. Vancouver's News 1130 - Rogers or King out of Seattle are leaders in delivery. I like the citizen journalists idea that provides a new twist plus female imaging is a nice change. Sheila Gardner knows the format delivery has worked at CKWX, CKNW ETC. For listeners in Edmonton it will be a nice change.

I think the liners are voiced by Ross McIntyre (100.3 the Q! fm Victoria).

Jingle package is Juggernaut Plus by Jones TM... They're using the WBAP logo.

http://www.juggernautplus.com

Well, that was amazingly 660news-esque, even the 'just before the half hour' credits (ok, except maybe without identifying the station calls). But...they have everything down to having the nearest CTV meteorologist just like CFFR (but over the phone). At the :15 and :45 I guess they run sports instead of doing a recap.

It's still in stereo, which is weird because announcers seem a bit ... 'hollow' (wide seperation). It sounds good for the jingles (and ads).
Timing is a bit off occasionally (Don! Mic channel up! now! OK, no, don't bring down the other announcer...oh...sigh.), but I guess that's just things that happen on the first day in production.  (I know I mess up things the first time when I'm at the mixing desk for live events.) - The jingles don't last as long as they should, maybe that's a feature, but I feel that for the beginning of every half-hour cycle the background should last until the :01 / :31 traffic. Whatever. Moving on...

I still hate the way Corus does their downlink from the helicopter. LTR (Logic Trunked Radio) is fine for communications, but it sounds bad when it is used for broadcast radio. I don't know what kind of processing they're doing to the audio, because it sounds better on my scanner. Skywords seems to have a proper wideband FM UHF system in place.

Currently lacking excessive ads, which is what I like to hear, but this may or may not change. Let's hope it stays. (I am taking this from a listener point of view, not the station's business manager.)

And everyone off-site seems to be phoning in reports instead of using the usual system...I thought they had a dedicated line to National Bank Financial. Oh well.

I feel this i-everything is getting out of hand and could get annoying. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue as much 660news or 680news or news1130. I don't have to say it though, can't complain.

User generated content? This isn't exactly digg.  

Seems OK for now. I'm happy the all news station ended up being on AM and not FM, because then that leaves more space for the coming FM stations, so hopefully they can leave 107.x alone. Interestingly, both the stations in Edmonton and Calgary were switched from an oldies format.

Thanks for posting the mp3 of the launch!  Seems like All-News Stations launch with the same Breaking News story - That They Exist!

"This just in...Edmonton Gets a New Radio Station...it's the one you are listening to right now...now to Jenny with Sports.."