For all those in the Toronto area who knew the legendary CFNY during its heyday, and long for radio that has the rich mix of unexpected combinations of music that CFNY played then…
For people who are sick of convergent hit-chasing corporate pap…
For people who like to be surprised but not revolted…
For people who remember when ‘alternative’ radio really was alternative…
I give you:
It’s the second radio service of Radio-Canada, it’s on DAB and 90.3 FM off the CN Tower in Toronto, on other frequencies elsewhere, and it’s also broadcasting on the Web for those of you with high-speed. There’s a program that plays the same kind of eclectic mix between modern jazz and rock and electronic music that Twilight Jazz used to play on CFNY.
For at least one program, the website has an online playlist that is updated as the music plays, so that if you wanted to find out what the cool song was, you can just… look it up. I have pages and pages of frantic scribblings of possible song titles in my sketchbooks from when I was listening to CFNY.
I’d given up on radio, except for the occaisional psychedelic rock retrospective on Q107, and the occaisional listen to Edge 102 (what CFNY turned into). I started investigating Radio-Canada because I’m learning French (off and on, in dribs and drabs). I never thought I’d find radio that got me excited about music again… and now it’s on digital radio that sounds better than FM*. I know. I can compare, because my little radio gets both. I’m gonna start recording it again, like I did back on cassettes in the day.
And I really never thought I’d find it in French…
Avant la musique!!! 
[sub]*when it works. I have issues with the extremely slow rollout of digital radio of any sort in Canada. But that’s another thread.[/sub]