820 CHAM drops country for talk
Erie-Meadville: News from across the pond via milkmanunlimited.com reports that Hamilton, Ontario station "820 CHAM" has dropped it's longtime country format for talk as "Talk 820" featuring both Canadian and American programs. The 50,000 watt station tried to keep the station country in recent years by tweaking it to add older songs to the mix. With another Hamilton area country station "Country 95.3" on FM, the station could not make inroads like it had when it was the only country station in that area which also covered Erie county with a great daytime signal. I can recall several times when my Grandfather listened to the station in his '85 Dodge pickup because it only had a digital display AM radio of all things. The flip to talk occured at 8:20 AM on September 2nd.Readers’ Forum
My family really enjoyed the country music. There was no better station than 820 cham. Now we make sure that station isn’t played,. Many other country music fans feel this same way.
J Terpstra - September 28, 2008 at 07:20 am
Left your station as soon as it turned to talk show.Love C&W Never did listen to your so called competitor in the area Lost listening to my favorite traffic reporter & reading his blogs as he told it like it was GOOD LUCK MIKE no matter were you are what your doing. les staley.
les staley - October 07, 2008 at 9:11 pm
we have also lost a second time chum 1050 which is now just a repeater station for cp 24 in toronto. no more oldies rock and roll except for 1150 ckoc in hamilton. let us hope that ckoc does not go the way of cham country 820 amd chum 1050 cham had great country music now it just more of the same . who needs it .
Lloyd Hewitt - May 24, 2009 at 8:45 pm
now that country 95.3 is out of the way…lets hope that 820 cham jumps back on the country wagon,now that was a real country station!!! with the right people i think it could happen.
craig march - December 31, 2009 at 5:14 pm
polite answers i like it
Untoperne (URL) - January 05, 2010 at 10:38 am
I am afraid that once changed 820 cham will never switch back from talk format to country music. This decision to switch to the talk format didnot come from local management but from the offsite minions who run and make the corporate decsions and do not care what the local audience wants or likes. Like the tv ads local radio also matters.
lloyd hewitt - January 06, 2010 at 06:45 am