Talk:CIMX-FM

message: A few points about the station's early history.  I worked there in the late 1970s and while I'm not 100% sure about the following, hopefully someone can confirm or refute these points.  The station was owned by Geoff Sterling (he was from Eastern Canada...maybe Newfoundland and owned other stations as well including (I think) CHOM-FM/Montreal). I was told that the station was classical at sign on.  The change to underground rock mentioned in the article (ala WABX/Detroit) did NOT "continue until the 1980s".  The entire rock staff (air and programming) was fired en masse sometime in the mid-1970s (apparently by phone). The station's chief engineer Wally Dowhan became PD and the station went Easy Listening (Streisand, Denver, Ray Conniff and 50% instrumentals per their POP).  An interesting aside about the station's call letters.  I was told that the "OM" came from Sterling's interest in transcendental meditation.  I absolutely remember having to play a top-of-the-hour jingle every morning at 3:00 with someone chanting "oooooohhhhhmmmmm".  Very trippy. LOL. The music eventually got newer as the 1980s arrived.  After that point, I believe they were called "Lazer Rock" until the Alternative Rock experiment and eventual full conversion to Modern Rock was completed.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.52.24 (talk) 10:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled (June 2008)

message: A very fine article for a great radio station, IMHO.  It would be nice to see a little more elaboration on the station's history, DJ's, format changes, etc..  I am not qualified to do this though - and it's just a thought.
:I also worked there in the mid 70's, after the mass firings. dick hildebrand hosted mornings. the 'come join our music' jingles tied
the station to windsor and essex county. geof stirling owned nbc (newfoundland broadcasting company). the cjom studios were located in 4 joined hotel rooms in the viscount hotel, 1120 ouellette avenue, windsor. we had a tub in the bathroom in master control. the transmitter was atop the viscount tower, less than 200 feet height.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.8.148.244 (talk) 15:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to hear about the period in the early 90's where they were hilariously irreverent and eventually leading to the "DJ Camp" period.  I remember listening and thinking it was one of the funniest things ever.  Before the "DJ Camp" the occasional swear word would make it to air, or the station would just go off the air suddenly in the middle of the night and then come back on an hour or so later.  Shortly after the "DJ Camp" they were pretty blah and I stopped listening.  To clarify "DJ Camp" was a period of a few weeks where they ran ad's and music and had no DJ's at all.  Spots were run explaining they went to DJ Camp.  I assume this meant someone threw a fit and fired everyone.  That kind of history is really fascinating, and it's something I've never heard the other side of 209.226.104.178 (talk) 06:59, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

text: I suggest The Metro Times, The Constant Listener column in the Detroit Free Press and Michiguide.com as sources. 89X was also the only station giving away tickets to the first Lollapalooza, and were the factor in getting a concert date for Electronic, one of only three in North America, I believe. MMetro (talk) 17:02, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled (September 2008)

message: I think this section needs to be generalized and not a specific listing of each and every event line up. WP:NOT seems pertinent. Dp76764 (talk) 16:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annual Sponsored Shows Cleanup 

message: There are plenty of stations (39 out of 60) listed on the template that aren't PHYSICALLY located in Detroit, yet they all service the Detroit Metro area. So why should this be any different?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dp76764 (talk • contribs) 20:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The template hasn't been removed. The template is completely appropriate, as it applies to the Detroit market. The category, however, is for the metropolitan area, which doesn't include CIMX, located in Canada. JPG-GR (talk) 23:56, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, then why is having the category on CIDR-FM ok? If the category is for stations that service the Detroit metro area and CIMX services that area, then what does it being in Canada have to do with it? Or is the category only for stations that originate in the metro area?  If so, then someone should remove all the Port Huron ones, as PH is by no stretch a part of the Detroit metro area.  Also, it's arguable that CIMX IS part of the Detroit metro area; they have official station premises in Southfield, MI.  Basically, if the category is for stations that service the metro area, CIMX should definitely have it.Dp76764 (talk) 01:04, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Ah, nevermind, I see the difference between the 2 things now. Sorry for the confusion.Dp76764 (talk) 04:01, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why remove this from [[Template:Detroit_Radio]]? 

message: I added the  template to the external links section of this article back in 2011 with this edit.  At the time, I was under the impression it was one of the standard external links used for radio station articles -- similar to  (FCC query),  (Arbitron query),  (Radio-Locator profile), etc.  However, I've since learned that this template is mostly limited to radio station articles in the Cleveland radio market, and has never been widely adopted by WP:WPRS or the larger WP community.  More importantly, this template, which merely links to the transmitter's coordinates on Google Maps, is completely redundant to  in the infobox, a template which has much greater functionality, and is which is nearly universally used in broadcast station articles.  As such, I have removed this redundant "Transmitter" template from this article; the template itself is currently nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_February_10#Template:Transmitter.  Please do not hesitate to share any thoughts or concerns you may have, both here and at the deletion discussion.  Levdr1lp / talk 01:49, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transmitter template