CHQR is a

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owned by

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operating in Calgary,

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, Canada. Broadcasting at AM 770, it airs

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programming. With the exception of one show, all of CHQR's weekday programming is produced in-house. CHQR is also the exclusive radio voice of the

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. CHQR is also the last AM station in the Calgary market to broadcast in C-QUAM AM Stereo. CHQR is a Class B station on the

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frequency of 770 kHz. CHQR's studios are located on 17th Avenue Southwest in Calgary, while its transmitters are located just south of the Calgary city limits near De Winton. As of Winter 2021, CHQR is the most-listened-to radio station in the Calgary market according to a PPM data report released by

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History

The station originally began broadcasting at 810 AM in 1964 and received approval to move to its current frequency in 1985. On November 9, 2011, Corus Entertainment Inc., on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary CKIK-FM Limited applied to the CRTC to add an FM transmitter to serve Calgary on the frequency 106.9 MHz to rebroadcast the programming of CHQR 770. This application was denied on May 24, 2012. In December 2015, CHQR was added to sister station

CKRY-FM CKRY-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a country format at 105.1 FM in Calgary, Alberta. The station uses its on-air brand name ''Country 105''. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment, which also owns sister stations CHQR, CF ...

's HD2 sub-channel when they activated HD Radio services, becoming the first station in Alberta to do so. On January 9, 2023, CHQR rebranded as ''QR Calgary'' and added an FM simulcast on CFGQ-FM.

Former logos

File:CHQR-AM.png, Logo used as AM 770 File:770 CHQR logo.svg, Logo used from 2021-2023

References

External links

770 CHQR

CHQR history
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