409:, a 1992 history of early Canadian radio, author Mary Vipond noted that "Several different versions of the gradual transformation of XWA from an experimenter in radio telephony to a regular broadcaster (with the call letters CFCF) exist" and "the precise date on which XWA/CFCF began regular programming may be impossible to determine". This uncertainty was evident when, in 1928, the station manager wrote to the Radio Branch in Ottawa asking "would you kindly let us know the date of our first broadcast", to which the reply was "We do not have the exact details of this on our files, but find that test programmes were carried out by your Company in Montreal during the winter evenings of 1919, and regular organized programs were commenced in December, 1920, by your Experimental Station, 'XWA' on a wavelength of 1200 metres ."
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1919, the company was using the XWA radio broadcasts of music in order to interest people in purchasing receiving sets, thus introducing a whole new industry to Canada, although at first persons operating radio receivers were required to hold an "Amateur
Experimental Station" licence, as well as pass the exam needed to receive an "Amateur Experimental Certificate of Proficiency", which required the ability to send and receive Morse code at five words a minute. In January 1922 the government lowered the barrier for individuals merely interested in receiving broadcasts, by introducing a new licence category, Private Receiving Station, that removed the need to qualify for an amateur radio licence. Initially these licences cost $ 1 and had to be renewed each year.
434:" type vacuum-tube powered by a 500 volt battery, as the government lifted the restrictions imposed during the war on the use of radio by non-military personnel or organizations. In March 1919 Canadian Marconi announced that it was planning to "install the new wireless telephone at important points in and around Montreal in the near future", in order that "the public will be able to test for themselves the latest development in long distance communication". There were also plans to install one of the devices in the Transportation Building office of J. N. Greenshields, president of the Montreal Board of Trade, which "will enable brokers to talk with Kingston, Ottawa, Three Rivers and Quebec".
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had been developed during World War One, but with the end of the war was now surplus. The parent company hoped there might be commercial interest within the
Canadian paper and pulp industry in using transmitters like this for communication between their mills and offices. It was installed on the building's top floor, and operated under the XWA call sign.
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In its various incarnations, especially as CFCF, station staff often asserted that, based on its May 20, 1920 debut broadcast, their station was not only the oldest in Canada, but the first to ever make a "scheduled broadcast". This claim is not widely accepted, because there are numerous examples of
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The chronology is not completely clear, but by 1921 the station's experimental call sign was changed to "9AM", reflecting a call sign policy change implemented in 1919 in conjunction with the restoration of civilian radio stations. (Broadcasting licences did not exist at this time.) A short notice in
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Marconi shipped a bulky combination desk and 500-watt transmitter, shaped like an upright piano, to the Canadian Marconi building in Montreal at 173 William Street (later re-numbered as 1017). The set, capable of two-way radiotelephone and longer-range radiotelegraph operation,
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On July 29, 2011, the CRTC began taking other applications for the vacant 690 and 940 frequencies, leaving Cogeco's plans for the stations in doubt. On
September 7, 2011, the CRTC announced the applicants for the 940 frequency; competing against Cogeco was Paul Tietolman, the son of broadcaster Jack
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Canadian government began issuing the first licences specifically for "radio-telephone broadcasting stations". Initially all these stations received four-letter call signs starting with "CF", "CH", "CJ" or "CK", plus one additional "C" as the third or fourth letter. Included in the
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On
September 19, 2014, the CRTC gave the TTP group another year to commence broadcasting on 600 and 940. This extension was the second and, originally, final one allowed for 940, giving the station until November 21, 2015 to commence broadcasting or face cancellation of its licence, however, it was
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enthusiasts, who enjoyed hearing music instead of the usual telegraphic code used almost universally for radio communication at this time. In addition, during the fall of 1919 Canadian
Marconi formed a separate company, Scientific Experimenter, Ltd., to sell equipment to radio amateurs. By December
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The earliest tests and demonstrations focused more on using the transmitter for point-to-point communication than for broadcasting. This required engineers to repeatedly speak simple phrases, with pauses to listen if there were any replies. As was common at a number of early stations, the engineers
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XWA eventually began operating on a regular schedule in order to promote radio receiver sales, and at first the station was almost single-handedly run by Darby Coats. (Coats went on to have a long broadcasting career.) A phonograph player and records were provided by a Sainte
Catherines West music
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in the capital city of Ottawa. This was part of a demonstration of the longrange capabilities of radiotelephony arranged by Dr. A. S. Eve of the Royal
Society, who was giving a lecture reviewing "Some Inventions of the Great War". In Montreal, Canadian Marconi's chief engineer J. O. G. Cann opened
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January 29, 2010, Corus announced that both CINW and CINF would cease broadcasting as of 7:00 p.m. that day, due to unsustainable ratings. Regular programming ended at 10:00 a.m. and was replaced with a repeating pre-recorded statement from general manager Mark Dickie announcing the
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CINW's history was generally said to have begun with experimental station XWA, licensed to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada, Ltd. ("Canadian Marconi"), which was a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd. ("British Marconi"). XWA's first
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p.m., citing difficulties operating in the Montreal market. The most recent ratings report prior to the change placed the station sixth among Montreal anglophones with a 3.8% share; nonetheless it was one of the lowest-ranked commercial English-language stations in the market (just ahead of
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the broadcast with a series of announcements, including reading a sealed message previously sent by Dr. R. F. Ruttan, which was followed by the playing of phonograph records, beginning with "Dear Old Pal of Mine". Also included was live entertainment featuring Dorothy Lutton, who sang "
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promoting sheet music sales, amateurs (sometimes with more enthusiasm than talent), and the occasional professional looking for publicity or intrigued by the new technology. By June 1921 interest in broadcasting had increased to the point that Canadian Marconi began publishing the
1226:, April 25, 1922, page 5. (Within the "CF" assignments, this first group also included CFCA (Toronto), CFCB (Vancouver), and CFCE (Halifax). In this list, CKCE Toronto should be 450 instead of 45 meters, and for Winnipeg, "CHCE" should be CHCF and "CKbC" should be CKZC.)
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licence was granted sometime between April 1, 1914 and March 31, 1915, in conjunction with a training school on Rodney Street, and it was one of the few radio stations allowed to operate in Canada during World War I, when it was used to conduct military research.
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a.m. While new licences would have been issued for both stations, the licensee for the new station was Metromedia CMR Broadcasting Inc., CINW's prior licensee. On July 8, 2011, these applications for 690 kHz and 940 kHz were withdrawn to a later date.
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first group of twenty-three stations was a Montreal grant for Canadian Marconi, assigned a transmitting wavelength of 440 metres (682 kHz) and the call letters CFCF. The slogan "Canada's First, Canada's Finest" was later adopted based on the new call sign.
873:(1916, volume 27, page 119). XWA's call letters have traditionally been said to stand for "Experimental Wireless Apparatus". Additional stations granted over the next two years included XWB, XWC, XWD, XWE and XWF in Ontario and Manitoba.
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The first documented broadcast of entertainment by XWA to a general audience occurred on the evening of May 20, 1920, when a concert was prepared for a Royal Society of Canada audience listening 110 miles (175 kilometres) away at the
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in the Netherlands began weekly broadcasts on November 6, 1919, and the Marconi station in Chelmsford, England was used to broadcast two half-hour news and entertainment programmes daily from February 23 to March 6, 1920.
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Tietolman, who planned to use 940 for an anglophone news-talk formatted station. On November 21, 2011, Tietolman was awarded the frequency, but for the francophone news-talk format that he originally applied for on 690.
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transmitters were developed which made audio transmissions practical. In spring 1919 Canadian Marconi's Arthur Runciman began voice transmission tests in downtown Montreal and in the Montreal harbor using a
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earlier that year. Canadian Marconi was thus forced to put its entire broadcasting division—CFCF-TV, CFCF (AM), CFQR-FM and CFCX—on the market. A deal to sell the stations to Ernie Bushnell, owner of
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earlier publicized radio broadcasts in multiple countries. This is especially true in the United States, which recorded its first regular weekly broadcasts in 1912, conducted by
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844:"La Radio, Une Histoire D’Innovation Canadianne - Early Radio Innovation in Canada", Denis Couillard, Ultra Electronics TCS & Musée des Ondes Emile Berliner Ed., 2020
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on 730 kHz, CFCF began operating full-time at 600 kHz in 1933, which would remain the station's transmitting frequency until 1999. CFCF was an affiliate of the
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magazine reported that the station, now using 9AM, was broadcasting once a week on Tuesdays starting at 8 p.m., using a wavelength of 1200 metres (250 kHz).
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soon tired of their repetitive talking, and began to play phonograph records to provide test signals. This in turn drew the attention of interested local
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in New York City, also conducted regular broadcasts from October 1916 to April 1917, which were resumed in the fall of 1919. In addition, station
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store in return for on-air acknowledgments. Performers weren't paid, so live entertainment was provided by
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acquired Corus' Quebec station assets; the sale included the transmitter sites and equipment in
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in San Jose, California. The De Forest Radio Telephone and Telegraph Company's station,
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History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom (Volume 1): The Birth of Broadcasting
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1577:"CRTC changes its mind, gives TTP Media yet another extension on AM radio stations"
1539:, Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-571, September 7, 2011 (crtc.gc.ca)
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1468:", "Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-336", May 19, 2011 (crtc.gc.ca)
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Radiotelegraph Regulations: License to Operate a Radio Receiving Equipment"
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Listening In: The First Decade of Canadian Broadcasting, 1922-1932
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252:"Canada's information and news station" (former all-news format)
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1660:"CFQR 600 AM launches with hours to go before deadline"
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616:(The Team 990), and was well behind spoken-word rivals
1172:"Canadian Experimental Licenses: Issued for 1921-1922"
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1053:, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992, pages 22-23.
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Logo used during the CIQC news-talk years (1993–1999)
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stations for the Montreal area, in conjunction with
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designed to improve reception in downtown Montreal.
1034:"Regulations: 97. Amateur Experimental Certificate"
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The Early Development of Radio in Canada, 1901-1930
833:"Two stations in Montreal going off the air Friday"
1513:"Notice of hearing: Withdrawal of items 13 and 14"
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1478:"Montreal to get two all-traffic radio stations"
1406:, uploaded March 3, 2011 by Lee32T (youtube.com)
1018:"Regulations: 18. Amateur Experimental Licenses"
1708:at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the
1616:"TTP Media's CFNV 940 AM begins on-air testing"
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1148:"Stamps celebrate 100 years of radio in Canada"
667:in order to relay the programs of CFCF-AM over
458:Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms
1004:(Adventures in Radio - 15) by D. R. P. Coats,
973:(Adventures in Radio - 13) by D. R. P. Coats,
954:(Adventures in Radio - 14) by D. R. P. Coats,
421:XWA's transmissions were initially limited to
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1248:"Stations That Make Up the Networks",
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1567:, October 4, 2014 (blog.fagstein.com)
1503:, Cogeco press release, May 16, 2011.
1311:"Changement de format à 940 Montreal"
1264:at Canadian Communications Foundation
1250:The (Hagerstown, Maryland) Daily Mail
1002:"Early Days in Canadian Broadcasting"
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952:"Early Days in Canadian Broadcasting"
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599:AM940 Montreal's Greatest Hits (2008)
27:Radio station in Montreal (1919–2010)
1724:in the REC Canadian station database
1428:"Radio: Not just the usual channels"
1194:magazine, November 1, 1921, page 47.
971:"The Birth of Canadian Broadcasting"
895:"Radio in Quebec society: Key dates"
691:Later use of the vacated frequencies
591:owned and operated station CBM (now
1650:, June 28, 2017 (blog.fagstein.com)
1103:"Wireless Concert Given for Ottawa"
571:CINW and the move to 940 kHz (1999)
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2533:Corus Entertainment radio stations
1710:Canadian Communications Foundation
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1235:"CFCF, Montreal, Quebec station",
920:"Wireless 'Phones Being Installed"
885:by Pierre Pagé, 2007, pages 42-43.
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936:"Wireless Phones Being Installed"
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2528:2010 disestablishments in Quebec
2502:List of radio stations in Quebec
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1176:The Consolidated Radio Call Book
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1300:, June 21, 1999, (crtc.gc.ca)
1178:(May 1922 edition), page 266.
1069:, September 23, 1922, page 7.
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1678:by Asa Briggs, 1961, page 45
1317:. 2008-06-06. Archived from
1132:"The Voice Around the World"
536:General Electric Company plc
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1371:"The Marc Denis Collection"
1275:Library and Archives Canada
1239:(Volume 1), 2004, page 310.
1210:, August 13, 1951, page 70.
1040:, June 27, 1914, page 4550.
1024:, June 27, 1914, page 4546.
809:"Corus Corporate Structure"
485:the November 1921 issue of
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926:, March 22, 1919, page 5.
906:Murray, Robert P. (2005)
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1224:Winnipeg Evening Tribune
1138:, October 1920, page 38.
1008:, December 1940, page 7.
958:, November 1940, page 7.
370:. Owned and operated by
2436:Nearby regions –
1632:CFNV 940: Super Station
1204:"In Montreal it's CFCF"
1109:, May 21, 1920, page 4.
1090:, May 21, 1920, page 7.
977:, October 1940, page 8.
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662:shortwave relay station
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313:45.3928000; -73.6981000
286:Transmitter coordinates
2487:Burlington-Plattsburgh
1692:Photo of DJ Dave Boxer
1298:"Decision CRTC 99-151"
989:Murray (2005) page 29.
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