YEGtalk: Hardcore YEG content on NR92
By Lexi McFarlane on October 31, 2023
You’ve heard it on NR92 for almost a full calendar year, or maybe you’re only hearing it for the second or third time ever. And you perhaps don’t yet know, and it’s pressed your mind for so long now:
What is YEGtalk?
The title is pretty suggestive, but it goes deeper beyond Edmontonian references. Let’s take a journey through everything that YEGtalk features!
First off, despite the name, YEGtalk doesn’t consist of 60 straight minutes of dialogue. Music gets played on YEGtalk, and each episode has a new music theme. It could be your favourite throwback era, a specific genre or artist, even specifically tied to a certain year or years of a major event! You never know what music theme YEGtalk will come out with next.
Obviously, during the conversation segments, you know YEGtalk will bring the heavy Edmonton references and hit you with local news, both prominent and under-the-radar. Need to know what City Hall’s deciding below the glass pyramid? Curious about the Oilers, Elks, Oil Kings, even the Stingers and Riverhawks? Anything that happened in Edmonton, or has a connection to this city, is fair game. YEGtalk keeps an eye out for what everyone’s talking about, and brings the story (and conversation) TO YOU!
There’s no better way to feel connected to the City of Champions than by listening to YEGtalk. We’re right in the centre of it all! (No, seriously, we’re in an on-air booth just two LRT stations north of Downtown, we’re very close to the physical centre of this city.)
Now maybe, if you’re listening to the show, you’re thinking that the music and conversation (and YEG references) is nice and all, but you’re looking for a nuance that you just can’t find on other shows regularly.
This is where YEGtalk takes you on a brief time-travel into Edmonton’s past with the #HistorYEG feature, which mentions a building or establishment in Edmonton’s past that is no longer with us. On X (formerly Twitter) or Instagram, you can go to NR92’s pages, and, using that hashtag, chime in with your thoughts and/or memories of that slice of YEG history.
Each Tuesday morning at 7:30 AM, YEGtalk is your place to embrace the proud local resident within you, or become one with this city. Get hardcore, in the suburbs or the core, with YEGtalk!