I just added data from the FCC about Canadian (stations begin with “C”) and Mexican (stations begin with “X”) into the database. Many of these stations can be heard in border cities – in San Diego, the Mexican stations are a large portion of the audience.
This is no Web Site or Station data yet and since this is all new, things might “pop out” in unexpected places.
The FCC data has lots of stations (especially AM stations) that I will probably add eventually – the challenge is that outside of the sphere of influence of the US, call signs are not widely used.
As you probably know with your Michigan connections, Detroit has several FM stations that get decent ratings, including at least 2 that have billboards and such in Detroit 88.7 and 93.9. CKLW and CKWW on AM have minor numbers of listeners along with the CBC stations. Also, Windsor has a new FM county station 95.9.
Interestingly, the CBC is getting out the the AM radio business. They are testing the new CBC One transmitter on 97.5 that is aimed away from the US as much as possible. The french station is also going to FM. This is the plan throughout almost all of Canada.
Way back in the beginning, I had added in the stations in Toronto and Windsor at the urging of an enthusiastic visitor. There was no interest in it at all. Much to my amazement, the CRTC which licenses radio stations has (or had) no list available of licensed stations and suggested finding a third party who would sell one.
After a couple days of playing, it’s clear the FCC list of canadian stations is close to useless. Many entries don’t have call signs, those that do have changed years ago (they still list CKLW-FM) or abandoned transmitters turned off a decade ago with no indication.
Just in my poking around, I discovered that Canada is still on analog TV, if you have some old TVs to get rid of. The tentative conversion to digital TV is set for August of this year.