Watch the documentary about Toronto radio station CFNY: The Spirit Of Radio

Filmmaker Matt Schichter uses interviews with CFNY's staff – Dave Marsden, Ivar Hamilton, etc – and artists to chart the rise and fall of the influential radio station.   

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In 1976, CFNY launched in a small suburban house just north of Toronto and went on to become one of the most influential punk, new wave and alternative radio stations in the world. This is the story of their mission to bring the most exciting music in the world to the masses. It's also a story of the personalities, lawsuits, bankruptcies, concerts, and listener protests that went along with it.

Watch the Spirit Of Music documentary followed by an interview with Alan Cross who, along with Ivar Hamilton, came up with the idea of doing a movie about CFNY and an interview with director Matt Schichter about why key CFNY on-air personality Chris Sheppard wasn't interviewed for the film.   

 

Here are a few songs which will be familiar to CFNY listeners back in the day...