CHML

CHML
City of license Hamilton, ON
Format News/Talk
Power 50,000 watts
Class B
Transmitter coordinates 43°19′59.88″N 80°7′14.16″W / 43.3333000°N 80.1206000°W
Callsign meaning C HaMiLton
Owner Corus Entertainment
(Corus Radio)
Webcast Listen Live
Website 900 CHML

CHML is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 900 AM in Hamilton, Ontario. Transmitter power is 50,000 watts using an eight-tower directional antenna array. The station airs a news/talk format branded as AM 900. CHML is owned by Corus Entertainment.

History

CHML began operations in 1927 as a response to censorship of political discussions by Hamilton's first radio station, CKOC. The original owners were Maple Leaf Radio Company, and the "HML" in the callsign stood for "Hamilton Maple Leaf". Broadcaster Ken Soble took over CHML in 1944.[1] Shortly after Soble's death, his estate sold the station to Western Broadcasting, later known as Western International Communications. Corus took over Western's radio assets in 1999.

Programming

The station has several local daily talk show programs.

Weekdays, CHML has Non-Stop News, which airs from 5:00am to 9:00am. The Bill Kelly Show follows from 9:00am to noon (simulcasted on Cable 14 Television). And from noon to 3:00pm is The Scott Thompson Show. Non-Stop News returns from 3:00pm to 7:00pm. The Scott Radley Show airs 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

The station also airs Adler On Line with Charles Adler, and The Roy Green Show with Roy Green on the weekends. CHML is the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' flagship radio station, the broadcast home of the McMaster Marauders football team, and Hamilton Bulldogs hockey.

Although CHML has carried American syndicated programming such as Coast to Coast AM, Dr. Joy Browne and The Jim Rome Show in the past, as of 2012 CHML's schedule only includes Coast to Coast AM.

CHML airs old time radio programs from the 1940s and 1950s nightly. These shows feature classic NBC and CBS programs.

References

  1. ↑ "The Hamilton Memory Project;" (Press release). The Hamilton Spectator- Souvenir Edition. June 10, 2006.

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