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