Montreal's 690 and 940 to power down tonight

[revdoug1@myfairpoint.net]

This is a sign of a trend.  For reasons that I have yet to be able to 
understand, AM radio in Canada seems to be on its way out.  During the 
past three or four years, the CBC has shut down most of its major AM 
outlets, and even way back in the early '90s, long-established stations 
such as 50-kw CFNB (550) in Fredericton were eliminated in favor of 
their FM counterparts. 

940 usually doesn't come in particularly well in central Maine where I 
live, but 690 often has a killer signal. 

CINW (940) is the successor to CFCF, Canada's first radio station, 
which Marconi Wireless put on the air in 1919.  The station's old TV 
counterpart, Channel 12, is still known as CFCF and is under separate 
ownership, I believe.   -Doug





Quoting Bob Hale <n1wbd@peoplepc.com>:
> 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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