Awesome! Yes, the station's tag line inspired Neil to write the lyric.
I'm not even going to mention how envious I am about the dance
I found this on Wikipedia so not sure if it is accurate but it turns out to be a different station:
"The Spirit of Radio"
During Marsden's tenure as program director, the style of the station evolved into a sound which is perhaps best described as a more professional-sounding version of a
campus radio station. At the time,
alternative music was new and had not yet received wide exposure, but it was also in 1978 that
new wave and
punk rock emerged as dominant forms of popular music—and so the station became known as one of the few commercial stations at the time which played alternative music.
The Spirit of Radio
During this period, the station began using
The Spirit of Radio as a promotional catchphrase.
In turn, listeners of the station began to refer to CFNY as
The Spirit of Radio. Canadian band
Rush was unable to obtain airplay on many radio stations other than CFNY early in their career, and in 1979 wrote the song "
The Spirit of Radio" about the station.
Unable to mention CFNY directly for fear of alienating airplay on other stations, the band instead ensured the catalog number for their album
Permanent Waves was 1021, a nod to the station's 102.1 FM frequency.
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