In turn, listeners of the station began to refer to CFNY as The Spirit of Radio.

Canadian band Rush was unable to obtain airplay on radio stations other than CFNY early in their career, and in 1979 wrote the song " The Spirit of Radio " about the station.

Unable to mention CFNY directly for fear of alienating airplay on other stations, the band instead ensured the catalog number for their album Permanent Waves was 1021-a nod to the station's 102. 1 FM frequency.

CFNY would send DJs to host regular new wave dance parties, both to build a community amongst its fans and to supplement the station's limited advertising revenue through admission fees.

In 1979, the station's original owners were involved in court action unrelated to CFNY and forced to sell the station.

In spite of its problems, CFNY garnered praise from its listeners and other broadcasters alike.

Through the early and mid-1980s, CFNY was well-respected for introducing new performers that other stations wouldn't play due to not being well-known names.

CFNY also created Canada's first independent music awards, the U-Knows, the name of which was a pun on Canada's mainstream Juno Awards.

Late in 1988, management at CFNY ordered a change in format.

After nearly 13 years of success and popular acclaim as a freestyle rock and alternative radio station, CFNY switched to a primarily Top 40 format.

In the early 1990s, the station again became an important outlet for new Canadian music, with bands such as Barenaked Ladies, The Lowest of the Low, Rheostatics, and Sloan counting CFNY as their first major radio supporter.

Unfortunately for the station's influence, alternative rock became the decade's dominant genre and so CFNY did not sound as distinctive compared to other radio stations as once had.

In addition to the growth of the Humble & Fred morning show, Jason Barr also joined the station at this time and would go on to become a significant contributor to CFNY.

The mid-1990s were another era of transition for CFNY as station owner Maclean-Hunter was acquired by Rogers Communications in 1994.

CFNY was sold to competing telecommunications conglomerate Shaw Communications as a result of the acquisition.

After 13 years as CFNY's morning show hosts, Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson departed CFNY for Mojo 640 in 2001.

Perhaps due to CRTC regulations requiring radio stations to announce their call letters, the station began in August 2005 to identify itself as both CFNY and the Edge during identification breaks.

The regulating body opted to give CFNY only a four-year license renewal, rather than the customary seven.

CFNY is also receivable in areas east of Erie, Pennsylvania ; however, interference from classic rocker WQHZ at 102. 3 MHz prevents CFNY from being received in much of the city of Erie.

They submitted the songs " Gamble " and " Motel 6 ", produced by Bob Wiseman, to the $ 100, 000 CFNY Discovery to Disc contest in 1991.

The CASBY Award is a Canadian award for independent and alternative music, presented annually by Toronto, Ontario radio station CFNY, currently branded as 102. 1 The Edge.

The best-known of these early singles was " The Ballad of Wendel Clark, Parts 1 & 2 ", an ode to the Toronto Maple Leafs player Wendel Clark, which became the band's first hit on college radio and CFNY.

Bookman is a Toronto radio DJ for 102. 1, The Edge, CFNY.

The album's single " When the Night Feels My Song " was the band's breakthrough single on Canadian radio, charting No. 1 on 102. 1 The Edge CFNY and gaining airplay on commercial radio stations throughout Canada in the summer of 2005.

As a result of these factors, CFNY frequently promotes itself as one of the most listened-to radio stations in the world — the station did, in fact, rank tenth in a 2002 Arbitron survey of the world's most listened-to Internet radio streams.

As the driving force behind Brampton, Ontario radio station CFNY in the 1980s, he became an influential figure in the Canadian music industry by giving many Canadian and international alternative rock artists major Canadian radio exposure.

Throughout the 1980s, under the slogan the spirit of radio, CFNY was one of the most influential promoters of new international and Canadian artists most radio stations ignored.

For instance, the Canadian radio station CFNY is officially licensed to Brampton, Ontario, although its studio and transmitter facilities are located in downtown Toronto.

The concept was developed by David Marsden, the program director at CFNY at the time, when he heard the Juno nominations announced on CBC radio, and included was Long John Baldry — who was newly resident in Canada but had already been in the music business for almost 20 years — as most promising vocalist.

NC17 was released independently at first by Smokin ' Worm in 1994, but it was a hit on campus radio, MuchMusic, and CFNY when it was re-released by Sonic Unyon Records in 1997.

Hayden turned to music after his song " Take " was selected for the album New Music Search, compiled by Toronto radio station CFNY in 1993.

Toronto's CFNY was the first radio station in Canada to recognize the song's hit potential.

Dancing alumni from the show also includes former CFNY Programmer and DJ Edd " The Wiz " Scorpio, radio DJ, Ashley Greco, of the Z103. 5 Morning Show and boy band, b4-4.

" Although the song was not a mainstream chart breakthrough for the band, it garnered them significant airplay on CBC Radio, CFNY and campus radio stations throughout Canada.

A tape of cellulose acetate is pulled between the blocks and the tape pulls the fluid or paste with it between the parallel faces of the blocks.

The tension at r is parallel to the curve at r and pulls the section to the right, so it may be written Tu =( Tcos φ, Tsin φ ), where T is the magnitude of the force and φ is the is the angle between the curve at r and the x-axis ( see tangential angle ).

In the " conveyor belt " model of the thermohaline circulation of the world ocean, the sinking of NADW pulls the waters of the North Atlantic drift northward ; however, this is almost certainly an oversimplification of the actual relationship between NADW formation and the strength of the Gulf Stream / North Atlantic drift.

Also when a VHS-C cassette is inserted into the adapter, a small swing-arm pulls the tape out of the miniature cassette to span the standard tape path distance between the guide rollers of a full-size tape.

** Enclosing a phrase between two asterisks is used to denote an action the user is " performing ", e. g. < tt >* pulls out a paper *</ tt >, although this usage is also common on forums, and less so on most chat rooms due to / me or similar commands.

Hydrogen bonds exist between water molecules, causing them to line up ; as the molecules at the top of the plant evaporate, each pulls the next one up to replace it, which in turn pulls on the next one in line.

Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender.

* Leader pulls up all the rope until there is no slack between the leader and seconder.

Adhesion forces between the fluid and the solid inner wall pulls the liquid column up until there is a sufficient mass of liquid for gravitational forces to overcome these intermolecular forces.

By decreasing the time it takes between the release and the catch, the percentage of time in the cycle when the boat is decelerating ( due to drag friction among other slowing forces ) is minimised ; therefore it is possible to perform a greater number of catches and pulls over a given race distance.

The stack damper contained within works like a butterfly valve and regulates draft ( pressure difference between air intake and air exit ) in the furnace, which is what pulls the flue gas through the convection section.

When the winch is engaged, it pulls the boarder usually between.

For example, in a rack railway, the rotation of a pinion mounted on a locomotive or a railcar engages a rack between the rails and pulls a train along a steep slope.

If is a covering between manifolds, and is a foliation on, then it pulls back to a foliation on.

Since different songs were useful for different tasks they are traditionally divided into three main categories, short haul shanties, for tasks requiring quick pulls over a relatively short time ; halyard shanties, for heavier work requiring more set-up time between pulls ; and Capstan shanties, for long, repetitive tasks requiring a sustained rhythm, but not involving working the lines.

Outraged by the new accord between the Soviet Union and the United States, the editor pulls a planned two-page story.

This technique gives its name to the schoolboy bump and is performed when the wrestler gets behind his opponent drops down to his knees and puts his hand between their crotch and pulls forward which in turn forces his / her bodyweight forward to trip the opponent over the attacking wrestler so that they fall flat on their back in a pin or pinfall position.

Although nominally in the key of D major, the initial tonality contains a conflict between music in D major and subsequently D minor ( with modal coloring ) over a sustained pedal point on C, which eventually pulls the tonality temporarily to C minor.

One ties the tapes around the hips, with the cloth at the small of the back, and then pulls the cloth between the legs and through the belt, letting the remainder hang as an apron.

" The problem with the cases of honour killings and their non-prosecution lies in the permission that the law grants to the family of the victim to compromise the offence, and that's why the person who actually pulls the trigger walks free ... although in the case of honour killing it's mostly a conspiracy between more than one member of the family, and that's the major issue here.

Veteran section gangs lining track, especially with an audience, often embellished their work with a one-handed flourish and with one foot stepping out and back on beats four, one, and two, between the two-armed pulls on the lining bars on beat three.