CJAD (AM)
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| City of license | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| Branding | Montreal's Newstalk Leader CJAD 800 |
| First air date | 1945 |
| Frequency | 800 kHz (AM) |
| Format | News, Talk |
| Power | 50 kW (10 kW at night) |
| Class | B |
| Owner | Standard Broadcasting |
| Website | http://www.cjad.com |
CJAD is a popular English language radio station, owned by Standard Broadcasting, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, broadcasting online and at 800 kHz on the AM dial.
Commonly referred to as Montreal's Heritage Radio Station, the station was founded by J. Arthur Dupont in 1945, whose name the call letters were based on. In 1961, it was purchased by Standard Broadcasting. In 1978, control of Standard Broadcasting was purchased by Conrad Black. In 1985, Standard was purchased by Slaight Communications, a privately held company owned by J. Allan Slaight.
There was also a CJAD-FM which began broadcasting in 1948, disappearing sometime in the 50's. In 1962, now under new management, they began broadcasting again at 95.9 MHz under the call letters CJFM-FM. However it was not until 1976 that CJFM's programming was totally different from CJAD's.
Starting in 1992 almost all of CJAD's programming was simulcast on Corus Entertainment-owned CKTS 900 in Sherbrooke. On November 19, 2006, CKTS ceased broadcasting and its licence was surrendered to the CRTC. This, according to Corus, was due to high ongoing maintenance costs that neither they nor Standard were willing to cover.
In 1998, all four of CJAD's broadcast towers toppled during The Ice Storm. It made arrangements to broadcast on 1410 and then 990 until new towers were erected.
Their most popular broadcasters in recent times have been George Balcan, Gord Sinclair, Ted Blackman, Melanie King, Joseph A. Schwarcz, Avril Benoit, John Moore, Neil McKenty, Joe Cannon, Kevin Holden and Trudie Mason and Rick Leckner.
Notable CJAD alumni, dating back to the 1950s, include discjockeys Don Cameron, Bob Harvie and Mike Stephens ("Make Believe Ballroom" and "Club 800"), sportscasters Danny Gallivan and Dick Irvin, Jr., morningmen George Bishop and Bill Roberts, newscasters Hamilton Grant and Len Rowcliffe, on air personalities Robert Libman and David Lisbona, as well as Norman Kihl, Jimmy Tapp, Rod Dewar and Sidney Margles.
[edit] External links
- CJAD's Official site
- Standard Radio's Official site
- From Mountain to the City: A Brief History of CJAD
- Radio History
- CJAD Timeline of Announcers
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