Comments on: CFQR announcement a whole lot of nothing

By: The Beat is on – but is CFQR any different? – Fagstein

The Beat is on – but is CFQR any different? – Fagstein — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:44:10 +0000

[...] which was popular under the light rock format under Q92 brand and since April 2009 has been called "The Q", has always been sort of a default at-work station. It's energetic, but not dance music. I don't [...]

By: Aaron Rand moves to CJAD afternoons – Fagstein

Aaron Rand moves to CJAD afternoons – Fagstein — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:54:26 +0000

[...] replacement, and the station is rebranding itself "The Beat", less than two and a half years after rebranding itself from "Q92" to "92.5 the Q". It's unclear what kind of format change will come along with the rebranding, but there's [...]

By: CFQR adds to website – Fagstein

CFQR adds to website – Fagstein — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:18:21 +0000

[...] eight months after they rebranded themselves from "Q92" to "The Q", CFQR has opened up its website to more interesting [...]

By: Kahn

Kahn — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:18:07 +0000

@ Erin, agreed... keep the monkey!!!

I never listened to this lousy station to begin with... sounds like I will continue to not listen.

By: Ofelia

Ofelia — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:54:59 +0000

i completely agree with you!!!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:13:05 +0000

Q92 was in need of some tweaking--they'd been using the same jingles and music beds for way too long. Corus has been desperately cutting, cutting, cutting for a while now, and the ones who were axed this time around were casualties of a big corporation's insatiable appetite for profit. The playlist has not changed whatsoever, they've shuffled around the remaining announcers a wee bit, and changed the already crap logo to an even worse one. None of this is going to change the fact that ratings have been dropping consistently over the past few years. Take it from someone who knows; Q's management is the biggest problem that station has. Until that can change, it'll just keep sinking like the damaged ship it is.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:08:43 +0000

I do a lot of driving around 4:00pm since I work in Montreal and live in the Laurentians, I used to listen to french radio but when I heard that Sonia Benezra was part of a radio show at Q92 (still for me), I started to listen to it and that combination of Ken, Sonia and Judy made my drive a lot more fun since they made me laught a lot.

I am so sorry that Sonia and Judy are gone that I stopped listening to the Q (as it was renamed, which is nonsense to me).

Even for budget reasons, I think it will do more bad than good.

Lucie

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:40:40 +0000

I don't think this was the result of focus groups. I think these were just budget cuts (staff cuts, more repeats), spun as a format change. It's good marketing: maybe a few people, like you, tuned in out of curiosity, while hopefully their listeners won't infer a drop in quality (as most CBC listeners do after budget cuts).

By: Don

Don — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:32:00 +0000

Thanks for such a complete report. Good information and a strong viewpoint. Keep it up.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:51:35 +0000

(And today, in Pedant's Parenthetical: 'the' is a definite article. Sorry, dude.)

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:30:29 +0000

My mother-in-law listens to this station pretty much all day every day, so even though I'm not a big radio person I have a fairly good sense of what they play. We were over there all weekend this weekend, and I have to say - that monkey was a WAY better DJ than whoever they usually had. They played oldies, and great '90s stuff, and bizarre power-ballads...it was great! Weird, totally incoherent, and confusing perhaps, but at least every one in ten songs or so was something that didn't make me feel like I was at the dentist.

In conclusion- they should forget this revamp and keep the monkey.

By: Vahan

Vahan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:25:28 +0000

92.5 is still on the air? Did CFCF not close it down like a million years ago? People tune into this station? Is that the station where the guy pretends he is Greek and they laugh and laugh and laugh without saying a word? What a waste of frequency? Pablum has more to it than the 92.

By: Andy Wrobel

Andy Wrobel — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:32:04 +0000

I will miss Judy and Sonia. Thwey were hilarious.

Andy

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:36:35 +0000

I posted this on another blog, so I figure I'll post it here, too.

Nothing more than a hyped-up, fresh coat of paint. Not even a new
color, just new paint. I'm annoyed that they got rid of Ron MacKinnon and
replaced him with more John Tesh reading "advice" out of magazines. Budget
cuts, I guess?

"Montreal's Greatest Hits" on Sunday mornings - what are they going to simulcast
940 now?

I would like to think that Natasha Hall will be live (and not voice-tracked). They could really use a
live overnight show.

It is: somewhat irrelevant, a crappy way of covering up budget cuts, and a marketing FAIL.

I wonder what this new "Chill" thing is going to be...?