CanCon starts January 18 1971

[DanNospamSay]

Broadcast History - January 18


In 1933, Prime Minister R.B. Bennett appointed the three members of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC), the successor to the CNR radio network, and the predecessor of the CBC. April 1, 1933, was the official death date of the CNR radio network; imaging on the stations changed from CNR Radio to CRBC.

In 1971, CanCon (Canadian Content) comes to Canadian radio for the first time. With some exceptions based on musical genre, all AM stations in Canada must play 30% Canadian music between 6:00 a.m. and midnight. It would be another few years before FM sees similar requirements.

[Michael Black]

Post by DanNospamSay
Broadcast History - January 18
In 1971, CanCon (Canadian Content) comes to Canadian radio for the first
time. With some exceptions based on musical genre, all AM stations in
Canada must play 30% Canadian music between 6:00 a.m. and midnight. It
would be another few years before FM sees similar requirements.

I really only started listening to the radio in the summer of 1971, buying
an awful shortwave radio (all I could afford) and it was lousy for
shortwave. But because it wasn't local, I'd listen to the Ottawa station
at 580, was it CFRA or CFRB? and they'd play music in the afternoon. And
because of CanCon, it was louded up with recent but but not current
Canadian songs. So Lenoard Cohen (both Suzanne and Marianne) and Neil
Young (I think "Down by the River" and the bands that had hits but not a
long life, like The Bells. If I'm remembering properly, sme of it kind of
surprising for AM radio at the time, if not now. But it wasn't "oldies"
it was just including music from a few years back to fill CanCon quotas.

Michael