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.

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 ).

Cross left CFNY in 2001 to become program director of CJXY in Hamilton ( then known as Y95 and subsequently as Y108 ), although he continued to host The Ongoing History of New Music.

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.

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.

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.

In July 1987, Marsden and CFNY general manager Bill Hutton hired Don Berns as the new program director.

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.

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.

He has also been profiled in exhibits at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, both for his on-air Dave Mickie persona and for his role as program director of CFNY.

Eclipse and Rendezvous, notably, both charted on CFNY.

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

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

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.

The station is noted in the Toronto area for its weekend freeform show hosted by David Marsden, the onetime program director of CFNY.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

I would like very much, on behalf of my husband and myself, to send our eternal thanks to all the wonderful people responsible for the Gabrielle Fund.

He would send on by trusted messenger the dispatches with their electrifying news.

The posse then asked that he send out the women and children as the building would be fired or torn down over his head if necessary to take him dead or alive.

`` Los Angeles has said they would send the children to their homes in case of disaster '', he said.

Your mother would always retrieve him when he wandered off, and she would send him home to his son.

Maybe I didn't see as much of Gladdy as I'd like, but how much worse it would have been if I'd had to board her out somewhere after Alice went -- send my daughter to an orphanage or a boarding-home.

And there would be no chance of signaling them -- without the Nernst generator Jack could not send a call powerful enough to get through all the static, and by the time he could rebuild his fusion power the skiff would be gone.

However, it would require all data transmission to send eight bits when seven could suffice.

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

Amasis would send one of his eunuchs to capture Phanes, but the eunuch is bested by the wise council man and Phanes flees to Persia, meeting up with Cambyses providing advice in his invasion of Egypt.

He later sent a letter to Yeshaq's successor Zara Yaqob in 1450, in which he wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, but it probably never reached the Emperor.

Similarly, all output was scrutinized for a Control-D character ( ASCII 4 ), which BASIC programs would send before seemingly PRINTing a disk command to get DOS's attention ( the disk commands would not really get PRINTed but were intercepted by DOS and prevented from making it to the screen output ).

Changing the balance of serotonin and norepinephrine would help the brain cells send and receive messages, therefore boosting the mood, which also is the main reason why these types of medications are called dual reuptake inhibitors.

In 1791 he was advised that the government would send out two convoys of convicts annually, plus adequate supplies.

He offered the Athenians peace, however, under the condition that Athens would send seven young men and seven young women every nine years to Crete to be fed to the Minotaur, a vicious monster.

The Lions postulated that a South African referee would probably not send off all of the Lions if they all retaliated against " blatant thuggery ".

The Allied commanders agreed that Marlborough would command 36, 000 troops and attack Tallard's force of 33, 000 on the left ( including capturing the village of Blenheim ), whilst Eugene, commanding 16, 000 men would attack the Elector and Marsin's combined forces of 23, 000 troops on the right wing ; if this attack was pressed hard the Elector and Marsin would have no troops to send to aid Tallard on their right.