Thank you so much for your support in this monumental venture, a Canadian first. We look forward to honouring our commitment to develop Canadian talent and Canadian emerging artists and giving the blues its first commercial voice in Canada...MORE TO COME!
Never underestimate the ability of someone with knowledge and passion to make something unconventional work. It'll never be #1, but in such a fragmented market, and the abaility to concentrate all staff on one station, it could find a sufficent audience.
I wouldn't give it a chance. For a laugh read he actual CRTC decision, for the dissenting commissioner's opinion. You have to believe if the format was viable that somehere, at least one of the 6,000 commercial US radio stations, would have a similar format. Apparently not. The primary rationale for suggesting this format is the success of a local Blues Festival. Lets hope everyone who lives in Ottawa and attends this festival listens....alot.
The Ottawa signal will be weak and provide poor coverage, with a limited audience potential to begin with. Within the first year, I bet the owners are back in front of the CRTC looking for relief from their conditions of license or some sort of adjustment to their power as it just won't make financial sense to operate.
Either that or they sell to Corus as soon as they can.
Former K-Rock program director Lochlin Cross will be running the DAWG. Let listeners sing the BLUES until they can no longer take it then after four years it goes mainstream.
Former K-Rock program director Lochlin Cross will be running the DAWG. Let listeners sing the BLUES until they can no longer take it then after four years it goes mainstream.
They put their entire potential playlist right in their application. it's already pretty mainstream.
Call Letters Announced For New DAWG In Town Ottawa ON from Robyn Metcalfe
Ottawa’s Newest radio station DAWG FM , has a name and has received it’s call sign from Industry Canada. C I D G will be found at 101.9 on the FM dial in spring of 2009.
"We are excited to see this new station unfold," says Frank Torres, President of DAWG FM. "The call letters, CIDG, help reinforce our DAWG brand. We hope to make DAWG FM Canada’s premier outlet for Canadian and international Blues music.
Artists that will be featured on CIDG DAWG FM 101.9 include Stevie Ray Vaughn, Norah Jones, Eric Clapton. Canadian blues musicians like Colin James, Jeff Healey, Jack DeKeyzer, Downchild Blues Band, JW Jones and Matt Andersen and a multitude of other Canadian blues artists. CIDG plans to promote home-grown Canadian blues performers who can’t get airplay spins on corporate radio.
CIDG DAWG FM 101.9 will bark on your radio dial in 2009.
CIDG plans to promote home-grown Canadian blues performers who can’t get airplay spins on corporate radio.
Isn't CIDG a corporation? So then the artists you play are in fact getting exposure on corporate radio? Whoa... I don't want to blow anyone's mind this early on a Wednesday morning, but wouldn't that make the above statement a paradox contridiction?
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