CFRA (AM)

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CFRA-AM

City of license	Ottawa, Ontario
Broadcast area	National Capital Region
Branding	580 CFRA
Slogan	News Talk Radio
Frequency	580 AM
First air date	3 May 1947
Format	talk radio
ERP	50kW day, 10kW night
Class	B
Callsign meaning	C Frank Ryan A
Owner	CTVglobemedia
Website	www.cfra.com

See also CFRA (disambiguation)

CFRA is a talk radio station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, owned by CTVglobemedia. It broadcasts at 580 kHz on the AM band. Notable personalities include Michael Harris, Steve Madely, Lowell Green, John Counsell and Reuven Bulka.

Frank Ryan founded the station which began broadcasting with a 1000 watt transmitter at 560 kHz on 3 May 1947. The first studios were located at the Ottawa Auditorium on O'Connor Street, where the station spent its first ten years. In 1962, the station moved to its present frequency (580 kHz) and increased its daytime power to 50 kW, and nighttime power to 10 kW. The current studios have been located at CHUM's downtown Market Media Mall since 2000.

CFRA played pop music until the mid 1980s. In 1986 they changed the format to "Favourites of Yesterday and Today" largely to compete with W-1310 (now Oldies 1310) which had recently converted to an oldies format. In 1991, CFRA changed the format again to match Oldies 1310 as an all-oldies station, before changing to the current news-talk format in 1993. In 2002, CFRA's slogan became "left on the dial, right on the issues", as a tribute to its conservative political leanings.

CFRA is Ottawa's only CNN Radio affiliate.

In 2007 CFRA along with the other CHUM stations were sold to CTVglobemedia.

[edit] External links

580 CFRA
CFRA's 60th Anniversary website 1947-2007
History of 580 CFRA from the Canadian Communications Foundation.
Conservative headquarters scripting calls to radio shows

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Gatineau	CJEU 1670 • CIMF 94.9 • CFTX 96.5 • CHLX 97.1 • CKTF 104.1 • CJRC 104.7

Smiths Falls	CJET 92.3 • CKBY 101.1

Perth	CHLK 88.1

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