RIP CKZN

I think it must be nearly a year since the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation turned off the transmitter at CKZN, the shortwave station
that ran for seventy-odd years in my hometown of St. John's,
Newfoundland.

When they turned it off, we were all told it was for "testing." Of
course, they were not testing anything technical; they were testing
what the audience reaction would be. If there were enough outcry,
they'd turn it on. Otherwise, they'd leave it off. That's what they
have done.

They have not yet dismantled the antennas, which are next to a much
taller single mast for the local CBC medium-wave station. This
morning, I stopped by to take this picture of the shortwave antennas.
In Leonard Cohen's words, just "keeping some kind of record."