CIBK Vibe 98.5 FM Radio

I always dig Vibe 98.5 at first, I really do. Depending on my mood, I have sweet R&B and pop tunes piping through my vehicle for me to groove along to. I like top 40, no lies. It’s like candy: catchy and fun even if there isn’t a lot of substance.
And then… If I’m running errands or on a long ride, I start to notice… that it constantly repeats. It isn’t unusual to hear the same song over and over and over again on the same day from destination to destination. And all of their requisite Canadian content seems to come from Nickleback. I hate Nickleback with a vengeance.
The personalities are ok, the contests have great prizes but seem to involve a lot of work, and it is just so high maintenance. A few months ago I went to the Whiskey and I couldn’t figure out why the music was so lame (usually it’s pretty good) and then realized they had the Vibe DJs on. Oh. Of course. I still listen to it during the commercial breaks of the other stations I listen to, because I have radio ADD.

I am TOTALLY with Dinah G. on this one.
Vibe USED to be my ‘Go-​To’ radio station back in the day, but these days, it rotates between a total of 5 songs.
If I wanted to hear a playlist solely composed of Sean Kingston, Pitbull and Taylor Swift, I“d head to hell myself.
Definitely not what the station used to be, and I’d MUCH rather drive in silence than have to listen to the same 5 songs repeat themselves again and again and again and … you get the point.

I have perused my radio dial and it has sort of rested on this music station for the last couple of weeks. It is supposedly the highest ranked top 40 radio station in Calgary and in the country. Supposedly Vibe 98 – 5 plays «Today’s Hottest Music».
This is a list of artists that I have heard:
Miley Cyrus, Kings of Leon, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, Jay C, Jason Derulo, Taylor Swift.
Trouble is today’s hottest hits are always tomorrow’s hottest hits and the next day’s and the next, I swear they put this list on an auto pilot replay reel. It is now irritating me, at the beginning it used to perk me up while driving; now I can almost predict what the next song will be. Well that is what you can expect if tuning in to 98 – 5 this insipid replay and a bunch of replayed radio commercials. To give them credit they are what they claim to be.
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