850 AM Montreal

850 AM Montreal
(call sign TBA)
City of license Montreal, Quebec
Frequency 850 kHz (AM)
First air date TBA
Format French-language sports/talk
Power 50,000 watts (day)
22,000 watts (night)
Class B
Owner Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy Media
(7954689 Canada Inc.)
Sister stations 600 AM Montreal, 940 AM Montreal

850 AM is a proposed radio station soon to be launched in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The new station is owned by Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy Media, a company controlled by business partners Rajiv Pancholy, Paul Tietolman and Nicolas Tétrault.[1]

The new French-language sports/talk radio format will broadcast from facilities on Île Perrot on 850 kHz as a class B station, with a power of 50,000 watts daytime and 22,000 watts nighttime. The station will also broadcast with a directional signal to the northeast, to protect Class-A clear-channel station KOA in Denver at night, and other stations broadcasting on, or close to, 850 AM, during the day, such as WEEI in Boston; WYLF in Penn Yan, New York; and WAXB in Ridgefield, Connecticut.[2]

The station was awarded a license by the CRTC on June 19, 2013.[3]

Until 1999, the 850 kHz AM frequency was formerly occupied by station CKVL, which moved to 690 AM as CINF later that year. CINF would cease operations in 2010.

References

  1. ↑ Steve Faguy, "A renaissance for AM radio in Montreal". The Gazette, August 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Fagstein: "CRTC approves TTP Media’s French-language sports radio station at 850AM", June 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-293, French-language AM radio station in Montréal, CRTC, June 19, 2013.

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