Montreal's 690 and 940 to power down tonight

[Dave Doherty]

Yep.  Listened to the loop (in French) on 690 on the way home from 
Providence to Worcester, and they're off now.

-d

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From: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 2:12 PM
To: "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Subject: Montreal's 690 and 940 to power down tonight

>
> Radio-info.com reports that CINF 690 and CINW 940--the latter being
> the first radio station in Canada, I have read--are being
> shut down tonight at 7 pm, as Corus believes they are no longer
> viable. The licenses are being returned to the CRTC
> and I guess reg programming ceased at 10 am, with loops now running
>
> http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2010/29/c5055.html
>
> http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=161569.0
> (has links to recorded loops)
>