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CKST
CKST (1040 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Owned by Bell Media, it broadcasts comedy radio, comedy-oriented programming, including stand-up comedy routines. CKST's studios are located on 750 Burrard Street, Robson and Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver, while its transmitters are located in Delta, British Columbia, Delta. History CKST went on the air for the first time on January 19, 1963, in Langley, British Columbia (city), Langley as CJJC, broadcasting on its original frequency of 850 AM with 1000 watts of power and offering a country music, country format. The station's original owner was City & Country Radio Ltd., headed by former CJAV-FM, CJAV and CKNW personality Joe Chesney. CJJC was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CRTC on December 15, 1970, to change its frequency and transmission power from 850 AM and 1000 watts to 800 AM and 10,000 watts, but the station waited until Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFTE
:''CFTE may also refer to: Certified Financial Technician'' CFTE (1410 AM, ''BNN Bloomberg Radio 1410'') is a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia. Owned by Bell Media, it broadcasts a business news format. The station's programming consists primarily of audio simulcasts from the Bell Media-owned specialty television channel BNN Bloomberg, as well as programs from the U.S. Bloomberg Radio network. CFTE's studios are located on Robson and Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver. However, most of its business day programs originate from BNN Bloomberg's studios in Toronto, with local programming limited to weather and traffic updates, and weekend specialty programming,. History CFUN first signed on the air on April 10, 1922 as CJCE at 750 AM, co-owned by Sprott-Shaw Schools of Commerce & Wireless Telegraphy and ''Radio Specialties Ltd.'', and operated on 5 watts of power. Radio Specialties opened CFCQ ten days later, on 450 meters with transmission power of 40 watts; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CHQM-FM
CHQM-FM (103.5 FM) is a Canadian radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia. It broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts from a transmitter on Mount Seymour and airs an adult contemporary format. It is western Canada's oldest and one of the most-listened-to commercial FM stations in Vancouver along with sister station CFBT-FM. It is owned by Bell Media. CHQM's studio is located at 750 Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver. CHQM is now the largest adult contemporary station in Canada not locally owned, having overtaken from Montreal's CFQR-FM in February 2011 after that station switched ownership from Toronto's Corus Entertainment to Montreal's Cogeco. CHQM-FM is currently the most-listened-to radio station in Vancouver with a 12.4% share, according to BBM's Winter report. The station is carried on Shaw Direct channel 509, and also carried on Telus Optik TV channel 7025. History CHQM-FM signed on the air on August 10, 1960 with a mainly instrumental easy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CIMA (AM)
CIMA was a Canadian AM radio station located in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1986 to 1992 . History CIMA signed on for the first time as CIOF on September 2, 1986. The station offered an adult contemporary format and was originally owned by Don Hamilton. Over the course of the station's six-year history, the format changed from AC to Top 40 to active rock to Top 40 to AC and finally on adult standards. In 1992, the CRTC authorized Western World Communications (the owners of CKST CKST (1040 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Owned by Bell Media, it broadcasts comedy radio, comedy-oriented programming, including stand-up comedy routines. CKST's studios are located on 750 Burrard ... 800) to buy CIMA. Under the request of Western World Communications, CIMA would sign off and CKST would be free to use CIMA's former frequencies and move their transmitters to CIMA's. CIMA left the air on February 4, 1992. References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CIVT-DT
CIVT-DT (channel 32) is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Victoria-based CTV 2 station CIVI-DT, channel 53 (although the two stations maintain separate operations). CIVT-DT's studios are located at 969 Robson Street (alternatively known as 750 Burrard Street; the former site of the Vancouver Public Library's central branch) at the intersection of Robson Street and Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver, which also houses the British Columbia operations of the CTV network itself, including the ''CTV National News'' Vancouver bureau. The station's transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour in the district municipality of North Vancouver. CIVT went on the air in 1997 as the first new Vancouver TV station in 21 years after the application of Baton Broadcasting for a television licence was granted from a field of five bids ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CKNW
CKNW is a news/ talk formatted radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, owned by Corus Entertainment. It broadcasts on an assigned frequency of AM 980 kHz, and is unusual in that it is a 50,000-watt, Class A station broadcasting on a regional (not clear-channel) frequency. CKNW uses a four-tower directional antenna from a site near Surrey, while its studios are located at TD Tower in Downtown Vancouver. History CKNW began in New Westminster, British Columbia, on August 15, 1944, at its original frequency of 1230 AM, under the ownership of Bill Rea's International Broadcasting Company. It was Vancouver's first country station, the first in the region to provide hourly newscasts (between 6:00 a.m. and midnight) and the first in the province to broadcast 24 hours a day, beginning in 1947. In 1947, Rea purchased a half-interest in Port Alberni radio station CJAV. Several personalities who started there would move to CKNW. These included Joe Chesney, who became mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Media Radio
Bell Media Radio, G.P. (formerly CHUM Radio), operating as iHeartRadio Canada, is the radio broadcasting and music events subsidiary of Canadian media conglomerate Bell Media. The company has its origins in CHUM Limited, which was acquired by CTVglobemedia in 2006. Through subsequent acquisitions, it also subsumed the radio properties of Astral Media in 2013; many of these were former Slaight Communications, Standard Radio stations that were acquired by Astral in 2007. In 2016, Bell Media reached a licensing agreement with U.S. radio conglomerate iHeartMedia to operate a localized version of its internet radio platform iHeartRadio, and organize Canadian versions of its event franchises (such as the Jingle Ball). Since this agreement, Bell has primarily promoted its audio content, including radio stations and podcasts, under the public-facing brand iHeartRadio Canada. Bell Media currently owns over 100 radio stations across Canada, including most of Canada's largest radio mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
750 Burrard Street
750 Burrard Street (also known as 969 Robson Street, or "Robson Central") is a building in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the northeast corner of Robson Street and Burrard Street. The site was home of the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library from 1957 to 1995Vancouver historicplaces.caIn December 1996, Canada's first (and ultimately only) Virgin Megastore opened on the lower level; Virgin eventually decided to exit the Canadian market and sold the location to HMV in September 2005. In late 2011, HMV Canada, now separately owned by Hilco UK, announced plans to close the Burrard location in January 2012 as part of a corporate refocusing towards smaller locations. HMV closed at this location on January 23, 2012. The southeast corner of the building was also the first Planet Hollywood in Vancouver opened on March 16, 1997. The main entrance was on 969 Robson Street. It was closed in October 1999 after bankruptcy. The upper levels were taken over in fall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CJAV-FM
CJAV-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 93.3 FM in Port Alberni, British Columbia. The station currently broadcasts an adult contemporary format branded on-air as ''93.3 The Peak'' and is owned by Jim Pattison Group. History CJAV began operations on April 1, 1946 at 1240 AM, using a 250 watt transmitter upon startup. The station, originally owned by Harold Warren, was the starting point for the careers of a number of broadcasters, including Jack Cullen (who later moved on to CKNW, then located in New Westminster), Joe Chesney (who went on to found Langley station CJJC CKST.html"_;"title="ow_ ow_CKST_Vancouver.html"_;"title="CKST">ow_CKST_Vancouver.html"_;"title="CKST.html"_;"title="ow_CKST">ow_CKST_Vancouver">CKST.html"_;"title="ow_CKST">ow_CKST_Vancouver">CKST">ow_CKST_Vancouver.html"_;"title="CKST.html"_;"title="ow_CKST">ow_CKST_Vancouver">CKST.html"_;"title="ow_CKST">ow_CKST_Vancouverin_1963),_George_Cowie_(later_of_CFTE.html" ;"title="CKST">ow_CKST_Vancouver.ht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delta, British Columbia
Delta is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, as part of Greater Vancouver. Located on the Fraser Lowland south of Fraser River's south arm, it is bordered by the city of Richmond on the Lulu Island to the north, New Westminster to the northeast, Surrey to the east, the Boundary Bay and the American pene-exclave Point Roberts to the south, and the Strait of Georgia to the west. Encompassing the nearby Annacis Island, Deas Island and Westham Island, Delta is mostly rural and officially composed of three distinct communities: North Delta, Ladner and Tsawwassen. History Prior to European settlement, Delta's flatlands and coastal shores were inhabited by the Tsawwassen First Nation of the Coast Salish. The land was first sighted by Europeans in 1791, when Spanish explorer Lieutenant Francisco de Eliza mistook the area for an island and named it "Isla de Cepeda". The first European settler in Delta was James Kennedy who pre-empted 135 acres in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langley, British Columbia (city)
The City of Langley, commonly referred to as Langley City, or just Langley, is a municipality in the Metro Vancouver Regional District in British Columbia, Canada. It lies directly east of Surrey, adjacent to the Cloverdale area, and is surrounded elsewhere by the Township of Langley, bordered by its neighbourhoods of Willowbrook to the north, Murrayville to the east, and Brookswood and Fern Ridge to the south. History Early European settlement in the area was known as "Innes Corners" (after homesteader Adam Innes); in 1911, the area became known as "Langley Prairie", part of the Township of Langley a.k.a. Langley Township since 1873. Twentieth-century improvements in transportation access, including the construction of the British Columbia Electric Railway in 1910, Fraser Highway in the 1920s, and Pattullo Bridge in 1937, profoundly impacted the area, transforming it from rural into the main urban and commercial core of the Township. In turn, this birthed the need for upgra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 In Radio
The year 1963 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events * 7 November – WGEN-AM signs on the air at 1500 AM in Geneseo, Illinois. * 22 November – On the ABC Radio network, newscaster Don Gardiner interrupts the song "Hooray for Hollywood" by Doris Day to announce that shots have been fired at the motorcade of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. This is the first national broadcast bulletin of the news of the shooting. Following Kennedy's death, many radio and TV stations suspend their normal programming for continuous news coverage through November 25, the day of Kennedy's funeral. * 8 December – Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française renames its radio channels: RTF Inter, RTF Promotion, and RTF Haute Fidélité become, respectively, France Inter, France Culture, and France Musique. * Los Angeles sation KLAC is purchased by Metromedia. * American automobile companies – including General Motors, Chrysler Corporation and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
