Closest NPR station to Montreal?
Mentor
I have a friend who recently moved to Montreal, Canada. He is a big
fan of National Public Radio (NPR) and he has asked me to find out for
him what is the closest NPR station to Montreal, since he himself does
not -- or at least, not yet -- have Internet access! (Unbelievable,
yes, I know!) I tried the guide on the NPR Web site, but it only works
for finding the closest NPR station to any city in the States!
Unfortunately, you can't use it to find NPR stations close to Canadian
cities! :(
So could somebody in this newsgroup please tell me, what is the closest
NPR station to Montreal?
Thanks in advance! :)
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Michael Black
> Hello, everybody! :)
>
> I have a friend who recently moved to Montreal, Canada. He is a big
> fan of National Public Radio (NPR) and he has asked me to find out for
> him what is the closest NPR station to Montreal, since he himself does
> not -- or at least, not yet -- have Internet access! (Unbelievable,
> yes, I know!) I tried the guide on the NPR Web site, but it only works
> for finding the closest NPR station to any city in the States!
> Unfortunately, you can't use it to find NPR stations close to Canadian
> cities! :(
>
> So could somebody in this newsgroup please tell me, what is the closest
> NPR station to Montreal?
It's Vermont Public Radio, http://www.vpr.net I think the only frequency
receivable here, they do have quite a number according to the list
they often read out, is at the top of the dial, 107.9 Reception is
generally good. It doesn't really require much of a radio to
hear it here.
Up till sometime in the last year, there was also a station in
the New York public radio system receivable here, though not as
strong, but then the jazz station was started up at 91.9MHz, killing
reception of the New York station because that's the exact frequency
it was on.
As alternatives to the commercial FM stations (and even the CBC),
there's CKUT, 90.3, which is the McGill radio station, with a wide
variety of programming, most of which doesn't interest me. One
of the French universities has their radio station at 91.3. There's
an all-classical (and locally owned) station, but at the moment I
can't remember the frequency. Kanawake has a radio station at
103.7MHz, a combination of Mohawk programming and hip-hop, unless
they dropped the latter to toss in some other popular form of
music. CBC "Radio One" is at 88.5MHz, but also at 104.7 (they
weren't getting the coverage of AM, so applied for a second frequency)
and an out of town "Radio One" comes in here fine much of the time,
though I can't recall the frequency at the moment. I think it's the
Trois Rivieres station.
There's an ethnic station, with a variety of programs from different
groups, at 105.1, but they've started filling some prime time with
popular music, stretching their CRTC mandate likely to the limit.
There's one or two other ethnic stations, but I can't remember their
frequencies or even if one of them is still on AM.
The recent additions to the local scene has meant we've lost most
of the interesting American stations. 106.7MHz is still receivable,
but it's never been a constant, and can be weak even when it does
reach Montreal. I guess it would be called a classic rock station,
they play "The Grateful Dead Hour" on Sunday nights at 8 or 9pm.
There's what would used to be called an "easy listening" station (I
think they use a different name nowadays) at 92.9 out of Plattsburgh
or Burlington, and they switch to all-Christmas music in November,
I think it's been running for a couple of weeks already. There
are a number of "top forty" type stations from the US that are still
there, including one at 99.9MHz which is likely the strongest of the
bunch, and seems really aimed at Montreal rather than the US market.
I recall there is a US country station receivable somewhere on the
FM band.
It's easier getting US stations on AM, though unfortunately at
night when most of them come booming in they are all playing syndicated
programming like Art Bell. KDKA 1020 PIttsburgh is still there, and
have local programming overnight. Sadly, WBZ 1030 out of Boston is
pretty much killed by the world's only French language country station
at 1040, with their transmitter just outside of Montreal. 620 and 760 (a
religious station) and 960 are some of the Vermont or Burlington stations
receivable in the daytime. 580 is an Ottawa station, receivable here
until they switch at dusk to lower power.
Concordia University has either been granted an AM license, or are
about to. I can't recall the frequency though.
I think that's all worth mentioning. The local newsgroup is mtl.general
The Montreal Gazette hasn't had a real radio columnist/reporter in a long
time.
Michael
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On 28 Nov 2005 04:53:47 GMT, et...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)
wrote:
Steve F.
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>GS
Not to get too nit-picky about it, but while XM & Sirius both have BBC
and PRI channels, NPR is exclusive to Sirius and isn't available on XM.
And, Sirius' Canadian service only has one NPR channel (NPR Talk)
instead of the two (NPR Talk & NPR Now) available to US subscribers
(though there is some duplication in the programming with the same shows
being aired at different times on the different channels). More
importantly for many NPR junkies, neither of the NPR channels on Sirius
have Morning Edition or All Things Considered--if you want those shows
you have to listen to a regular radio station or online.
SF
Al Dykes
Essentially all the NPR programming is streamed by one station or
another. Look where and pick out what you what to hear, when.
http://www.publicradiofan.com/
As a default, I like WNYC, streaming at www.wnyc.org.
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