Sunday, September 24, 2006
The Spirit of Radio Archives + Marsden + RadioSteven on the air
Physical State: creaky
Mental State: sleepy
Music: Dave Marsden - Spirit of Radio on Pulver Radio (Sundays)
Fashion sense: blue t-shirt, sweats
I've discovered a couple of cool things for the fan of great radio. Toronto's CFNY was once the venerable home of all great British, new wave and esoteric music (a commercial station that was run like a college station). It has since become a bit of a run of the mill modern rock station (still has great retro stuff on Sundays with Martin Streek though, where else can you hear Front Line Assembly and ABC in the same show). Well if you were a fan of CFNY in it's glory days they have added a 24/7 internet stream that runs old shows from the CFNY archives. This is great news for anyone wanting to hear what this station was like in the 80s. Click on th banner above for a link to the site (and also a tribute to CFNY as well is found on it's main page at spiritofradio.ca)
David Marsden (probably CFNY's most respected DJ from back in the day) also has a show on Pulver Radio Tuesday afternoons from 3-7pm (repeated Wed. 7-11pm, Sat. 8-midnight and Sun. from noon-4pm). This is one of the examples of radio that was incredibly diverse and classic in every sense of the word (he is definitely a dying breed of radio dj). You can also catch him Thursday and Friday nights 7-midnight broadcasting on the radio dial at Oshawa radio station 94.9 The Rock which also has online streaming for you people outside the listening area.
While we're on the topic of radio. I also wanted to announce the inaugural debut of my own personal Live365 radio station, RadioSteven. You can listen via WinAmp or i-tunes (or download their own Radio365 player free for 35 hours). You can specify in the listening settings how you would like listen to the show (with their downloadable Radio365 player or i-tunes/winamp). In order to listen all you have to do is sign
up and it's FREE. If you wish to listen to Live 365 in cd quality and without ads you can pay their $5/mth subscription cost.
My show up right now has almost 7 hours of music. I have not added any station id or vocal breaks but you can see what the song is in the player window. Feel free to send me your feedback on it. Rock on!
