Huron Broadcasting was a Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, active in Sault Ste. Marie from 1976 to 1990. The company first entered the broadcasting business in 1976, when it acquired the assets of the city's prior Hyland Broadcasting and Algonquin Broadcasting companies, including CJIC-TV and the radio stations CJIC, CJIC-FM, CKCY and CKCY-FM, as well as CJWA in Wawa, CKNR in

Elliot Lake Elliot Lake is a city in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is north of Lake Huron, midway between the cities of Greater Sudbury, Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie in the Northern Ontario region. Once dubbed the "uranium ca ...

, CJNR in Blind River and CKNS in Espanola. Due to

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rules, Huron then sold the CJIC radio stations to another new company, Gilder Broadcasting, shortly after the merger was completed. (Gilder changed those stations' call signs to CFYN and CHAS.) Huron subsequently also opened CKCY-TV in 1977.History of CHBX
at the Canadian Communications Foundation. Huron sold its radio stations to other owners in the mid-1980s.

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acquired Sault Ste. Marie's CJIC and CJIC-FM, by this time known as

CFYN CFYN was a Canadian AM broadcasting, AM radio station, which broadcast at 1050 kHz in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, from 1977 to 1992. From 1934 to 1977, the station broadcast with the call sign CJIC. CJIC The first radio station in Sault Ste. ...

and

CHAS-FM CHAS-FM (100.5 Hertz, MHz) is a radio station licensed to and serving Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Owned and operated by Rogers Radio, a division of Rogers Sports & Media, the station broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format branded as '' ...

, in 1985, while the remaining stations were sold to Mid-Canada Radio in two separate transactions, in 1986 (the stations in Blind River, Elliot Lake and Espanola) and 1988 (the remaining stations in Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa). The television stations were acquired by

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in 1990, and were converted by Baton to the MCTV branding in use on the Mid-Canada Television stations in Sudbury,

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and North Bay, which had been acquired by Baton in the same year.Decision CRTC 90-1074
/ref> At the same time Mid-Canada sold the radio stations to Pelmorex, where they formed part of the

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until 1998.

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Defunct radio broadcasting companies of Canada Defunct broadcasting companies of Canada Mass media companies established in 1976 Mass media companies disestablished in 1990 1976 establishments in Ontario 1990 disestablishments in Ontario Companies based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Canadian companies established in 1976 {{Canada-media-company-stub