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CFNY was sold to competing telecommunications conglomerate Shaw Communications as a result of the acquisition.
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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.
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.
The mid-1990s were another era of transition for CFNY as station owner Maclean-Hunter was acquired by Rogers Communications in 1994.
During his stint at CFNY, he was known as " The Mars Bar ".
He eventually returned as an on-air personality at CHIC-FM shortly before it was transformed into CFNY.
After CFNY program director Dave Pritchard left the station in 1978 due to conflicts with the station management, Marsden was promoted to program director.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It was the band's breakthrough in Canada, with four of its six tracks (" Samuel Sin ", " Bounce ", " Sex Change Shake " and " The Mango Kid ") gaining significant airplay on modern rock stations such as CFNY.
It was produced directly by CFNY until 2008, when Cross left the station to become the head of Corus ' new media division, although CFNY still airs the program.
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.
" 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.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, CKEY was the leading Top 40 music competitor to 1050 CHUM ; one of its DJs was later CFNY staple David Marsden, known as Dave Mickie at CKEY ( and later at CHUM as well ).
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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.
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In turn, listeners of the station began to refer to CFNY as The Spirit of Radio.
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.
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.
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 pulls a share of between 0. 6 % and 1. 1 % in the Arbitron radio rating in Buffalo.
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.
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