page_title: CFNY-FM
section_title: Staffing changes
hierarchical_section_title: CFNY-FM / History / Corus Entertainment / Staffing changes
caption_attribution_description: English: 102.1 The Edge Ford Transit Connect on Queens Quay, Toronto, Ontario.
context_page_description: CFNY-FM, branded as 102.1 the Edge, is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102.1 FM in the Greater Toronto Area, licensed to the suburb of Brampton. The station rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s due to its freestyle DJing format and unique choice to play alternative music. Following a number of years hallmarked by the station changing hands several times, internal morale problems and a listener rebellion as a result of management decisions, the station eventually evolved into its current modern rock format owned by Corus Entertainment. Its studios are in Downtown Toronto at Corus Quay on Toronto's Harbourfront and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower. The Edge is simulcast by satellite across Canada on Bell Satellite TV channel 955, and on Shaw Direct channel 866.
context_section_description: In August, 2010 cohost Jason Barr left The Dean Blundell Show and CFNY.
  On July 24, 2013 it was announced that Todd Shapiro would not be returning to The Dean Blundell Show. The exact reasons have not been made public.
  In November 2013, the station faced criticism when Dean Blundell Show cohost Derek Welsman made on-air comments about a criminal trial on which he had been the jury foreman, resulting in allegations both of homophobia—the case involved allegations of sexual assault against a client of a gay bathhouse—and of potentially causing a mistrial by publicly discussing aspects of the jury deliberations. The station announced the show's suspension on December 12, 2013, and the show was ultimately cancelled on January 6, 2014. With the firings of Blundell and Welsman, the station's morning show was taken over by "Fearless Fred" Kennedy until March 18, 2014, when former CILQ-FM evening show host Dominik Diamond was announced as the morning show's new host.
  On March 31, 2014, the station debuted a new weekday schedule. Midday and evening hosts Josie Dye and Greg Beharrell would move to mornings to co-host alongside newcomer Diamond, past host and music programmer Carlos Benevides was re-hired to take over middays, while Fearless Fred returned to the afternoon drive slot joined by weekend host Melani Mariani. Longtime swing host Adam was also granted a permanent timeslot, as evening host.
  This lineup, however, would prove short-lived. The departure of both Beharrell to KITS in San Francisco and Benevides back to mornings at CKBT-FM in Kitchener was followed by the apparent dismissal of Diamond, forcing the station to rearrange its broadcast schedule for the third time in less than a year.
  In September 2014, Alan Cross rejoined the station as music consultant and host, relaunching The Ongoing History of New Music and a new weekday programming feature called Adventures in Vinyl. "Spirit of Radio"-era personality Scot Turner, also program director for CJDV-FM and CKBT-FM, rejoined the station as host of Spirit of Radio Sunday, a program which focused on classic alternative rock tracks from the "Spirit of Radio" era in the 1980s. The return of Cross and Turner was intended to draw in younger listeners, as well as older audiences from the "Spirit of Radio" era who were alienated by station's "harder-edged" atmosphere.
  Spirit of Radio Sunday became the station's highest-rated program, but was discontinued following its February 1, 2015 edition because it was not sufficiently popular among the station's core 18–34 demographic. Around this time, the station retired its previous slogan ("Toronto's Alternative") and adopted its current one: "Modern Music".
  In February 2016, the station announced that former MuchMusic VJ and current ET Canada correspondent Rick Campanelli will join the station as cohost with Fred and Mel of the morning show, beginning June 27.
  In March 2017 another shuffling of the air staff took place. In this period the Edge schedule consisted of Edge Mornings with Melani & Adam, Carly middays, Fearless Fred in afternoon drive, Cross and Beharrell hosting their own early evening shows for one hour each, Kid Craig evenings, and Luke and former Alexisonfire guitarist Wade MacNeil on weekends.
  In August 2018, Melani & Adam were let go and Fearless Fred was moved to afternoons on brother  station Q107.
  In October 2018, program director Tammy Cole announced that sister-brother duo, Ruby (ex-Z95/Vancouver) and Alex Carr (ex-CFOX/Vancouver) would be the new morning show debuting in January 2019.
  In November 2018, Kolter Bouchard (ex-Q107/Toronto) and Meredith Geddes (ex-CFOX/Vancouver) were announced as the new afternoon drive show, effective immediately.
  In January 2020, Ruby and Alex were released and replaced in February 2020 by the morning show team of Shawna, Chris Z and Jay Brody (known collectively as "The B Team") from Hamilton sister station Y108.
caption: 102.1 The Edge van in Toronto.
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