Montreal's 690 and 940 to power down tonight

[Bob Hale]

I was listening to 940 here on my Icom Ic-751 and they had a good signal here in Grafton,NH at about 1pm Friday. Shame to see a AM station shutdown like that.
Bob N1WBD 


>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)
>> 
>


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