MOST WANTED
Dec 8, 1980
The night John Lennon died. Q stayed on the air all night and into the next day.
A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY • IN DEVELOPMENT
Do you remember rock and roll radio?
Before playlists. Before algorithms. Before influencers.
The Mighty Q is a feature documentary about Q107, Toronto’s rock station, and the people who made it — coming for the station’s fiftieth birthday in 2027.
THE CALL FOR RECORDINGS
Did you tape the Q?
Radio was never meant to be kept. Much of it survives only because a listener pressed record. If you, your parents or your older brother taped Q107, you may be holding a piece of Toronto history.
WANTED
Aug 16, 1977
The night Elvis died, when the station was twelve weeks old.
WANTED
Halloween 1980
Teenage Head live at Heatwave, as the station broadcast it.
ANYTHING
1977–1989
Whole shifts, jingles, contests, ads, live concerts — even a few minutes taped off the radio.
Tapes & airchecks.
Cassettes, reels, MP3s of old transfers. Send a file, or tell us what you have and we’ll digitize it.
Photos & memorabilia.
T-shirts, bumper stickers, posters, contest prizes, Homegrown albums, snapshots from the shows.
Stories & memories.
Where you were when you heard it. The contest you won. The night you were in the studio.
Share your tapes, photos & stories
We digitize anything you lend us at our cost, return the originals and credit you.
The film
Who made the Mighty Q?
Many people — starting with a showman from the prairies, and the city itself. Everyone has a claim. The film lets them make it.
The characters behind the microphones, the bands they went looking for, and a city that listened together on one analog dial. Told by the people who were there, then and now, with rock-and-roll animation for the stories nobody filmed.
Who’s making it
DirectorJeff Rogers
ProducerBarnaby Marshall
ProducerRob Stefaniuk