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CKMX (AM)
CKMX is a silent radio station licensed to broadcast at 1060 AM in Calgary, Alberta, and owned by Bell Media. Its comedy format was branded on-air as ''Funny 1060''. CKMX's studios were located in the CTV Calgary Studios on Patina Rise SW in the Prominence Point neighborhood of Calgary, and its transmitter site near Southeast Calgary. At night, CKMX could be heard as far west as Battle Ground and Snohomish, Washington. It could also be heard on shortwave on 6.03 MHz via its repeater CFVP, reaching western North America. As of Winter 2020, CKMX was the 18th-most-listened-to radio station in the Calgary market according to a PPM data report released by Numeris. The station was taken off the air by Bell Media in June 2023. On January 24, 2025, regulatory filings revealed that Akash Broadcasting, owner of multilingual stations CKER-FM Edmonton and CJCN-FM Surrey, was seeking to acquire the station's assets from Bell Media. History CKMX was first licensed as a broadcasting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 In Radio
1922 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1922. __TOC__ Events *6 February – Official inauguration of ''Radio Tour Eiffel'' from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, transmitting meteorological bulletins. *8 February – President of the United States, Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House. *19 February – Ed Wynn becomes the first big vaudeville star to join radio. The first broadcast is Wynn's ''The Perfect Fool'' and the station is WJZ, New York. This is also the first time in the world that a radio show is broadcast before a studio audience.''The Shell Book of Firsts'' 1983. p. 240. *27 February – The first National Radio Conference, led by Herbert Hoover, is held in Washington, D.C. *10 March – In the United States, ''Variety'' magazine prints as its front-page headline "Radio Sweeping Country - 1,000,000 Sets in Use". *19 March – Broadcasting from the Shukhov Tower in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snohomish, Washington
Snohomish () is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, Snohomish County, Washington (state), Washington, United States. The population was 10,126 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is located on the Snohomish River, southeast of Everett, Washington, Everett and northwest of Monroe, Washington, Monroe. Snohomish lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 2 in Washington, U.S. Route 2 and Washington State Route 9, State Route 9. The city's airport, Harvey Airfield, is located south of downtown and used primarily for general aviation. The city was founded in 1859 and named Cadyville after pioneer settler E. F. Cady and renamed to Snohomish in 1871. It served as county seat of Snohomish County from 1861 to 1897, when the county government was relocated to Everett. Snohomish has a downtown district that is renowned for its collection of antique shops and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. History The Snohomish River, Snohomish River Valley was original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maclean-Hunter
Maclean-Hunter (M-H) was a Canadian communications company, which had diversified holdings in radio, television, magazines, newspapers and cable television distribution. History The company began in 1887, when brothers John Bayne Maclean and Hugh Cameron Maclean launched their first trade publication, ''Canadian Grocer & General Storekeeper''. Hugh left the company in 1899 and later return to Toronto to establish his own publication firm. John subsequently expanded his company into other areas of publishing, launching the general interest magazine ''Maclean's'' in 1905, the business newspaper ''Financial Post'' in 1907, the lifestyle magazine '' Canadian Homes and Gardens'' in 1925, the women's magazine '' Chatelaine'' in 1928, and its French-language counterpart, ''Châtelaine'' in 1960. Horace Talmadge Hunter joined Maclean Publishing in 1903, moving up the management ranks from general manager in 1911 to succeed John Bayne Maclean as president in 1933; in 1945 the company's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 In Radio
The year 1994 in radio involved some significant events. Events *January – WHTZ Z 100 Newark, NJ/New York City modifies their Contemporary hit radio, CHR format by mixing large amounts of Modern Rock into the format. They would continue this for over two years. *January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. *February – In the United States: **WDVD, WHYT Detroit evolves from Rhythmic CHR to Contemporary hit radio, CHR. **Radio station KVRE—Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, begins broadcasting. *February 1 – Radio station at HM Prison Feltham in London begins broadcasting, origin of National Prison Radio in the United Kingdom. *March – KBEA-FM, KFMH (99.7 FM) of Muscatine, Iowa, ceases its longtime progressive and alternative rock format on March 1. Two weeks later, the station's sale to New York-based Connoisseur Communications is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate its founding, the CBC is the oldest continually-existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique (international radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website). The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the French-language Ici Radio-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian National Railway Radio Network
CNR Radio or CN Radio (officially the Canadian National Railways Radio Department/Société radiodiffusion des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada)Radio Drama, English Language ''Canadian Encyclopedia'', accessed January 23, 2008 was the first national in .CNR Company Fonds Provincial Archives of Alberta, accessed January 22, 2008 It was deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phantom Station
A phantom radio station was a station which did not operate their own radio transmitter, rather leasing unused airtime from a station which owned the transmitter. In the early days of radio, non-phantom stations (or "physical" stations) only broadcast for a few hours per day. The remaining unused time could then be rented to other stations, who would broadcast through the physical station's equipment. The relatively constant programming also would result in more public interest, who would be encouraged to buy receivers. In Canada, the Canadian National Railway radio network, based in Toronto provided live national programs also some local programs during their broadcasts leased time on CFCA, CFRB and CKGW. While leasing most of their airtime on other stations, the CNR also owned three stations; CNRA Moncton, CNRO Ottawa and CNRV Vancouver. The network was disbanded in 1932. The rival Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway () , also known simply ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Herald
The ''Calgary Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser''. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. History ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser'' started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler." It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary. A year's subscription cost $3. When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack. Cayley quickly became partner and editor. Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFAC
:''CFAC also stands for Commander Fleet Activities Chinhae'' CFAC (960 AM) is a radio station serving Calgary, Alberta. Owned by Rogers Radio, a division of Rogers Sports & Media, the station broadcasts a sports format branded as ''Sportsnet 960 The Fan'', co-branded with the Sportsnet television channel also owned by Rogers. Its studios are located on 7th Avenue Southwest in downtown Calgary, in the same building as Rogers' other Calgary stations, CFFR, CHFM-FM and CJAQ-FM. CFAC broadcasts with a power of 50,000 watts 24 hours a day on the regional frequency of 960 AM. The daytime signal is non-directional, and the nighttime signal is directional using a three-tower array located on Rainbow Road just east of the Calgary city limits. History Organized radio broadcasting began to gain prominence in Canada in early 1922. Initially there wasn't a formal licence category for stations providing entertainment broadcasts intended for the general public, so the earliest stations o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
W W Grant Ltd Advertisement (1923)
W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''double-u'',Pronounced in formal situations, but colloquially often , , or , with a silent ''l''. plural ''double-ues''. Name Double-u, whose name reflects stages in the letter's evolution when it was considered two of the same letter, a double U, is the only modern English letter whose name has more than one syllable.However, "Izzard" was formerly a two-syllable pronunciation of the letter Z. It is also the only English letter whose name is not pronounced with any of the sounds that the letter typically makes in words, with the exception of H (though not for all speakers, particularly in British English). Some speakers shorten the name "double u" into "dub-u" or just "dub"; for example, University of Wisconsin, University of Washington, University of Wyoming, University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCAF Station High River
RCAF Station High River was a station of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) located at High River, Alberta, Canada. High River Air Station The High River Air Station commenced flying operations on 6 May 1921 when the Flying Operations Branch of the Air Board (Canada), Canadian Air Board relocated the Morley Air Station to High River over the winter of 1920–21. The Morley Air Station was one of the initial five stations established for civil operations in the summer of 1920. From experience gained during the 1920 flying season, the weather at Morley was determined to be too erratic and dangerous for flying. In the early days, the station had an entirely civil aviation, civil function and was the largest in Canada with ten war-surplus Airco DH.4 aircraft that were part of the Imperial Gift provided to Canada by Britain after the First World War. Initially, most of the flying operations consisted of fire-spotting forestry patrols over the mountains and foothills to the west. Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CJCN-FM
CJCN-FM (91.5 FM, "Connect 91.5") is a radio station licensed to Surrey, British Columbia. Owned by Akash Broadcasting, it broadcasts programming serving Greater Vancouver's South Asian communities. History In 2016, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission considered seven applications for a new commercial ethnic radio station to serve Surrey and Vancouver. The Akash application won approval from the CRTC for repatriating revenues lost to cross-border ethnic broadcasters based in northwestern Washington; it specified an entirely ethnic format serving the area's South Asian population, with more than 75 percent in languages other than English; 121 hours a week of local programming, about 40 percent of that in speech programs; and 50 percent Canadian content in music. Before launch, the transmitter site proposed was lost, and a new one was approved. On-air testing for CJCN-FM began December 20, 2019. In 2021, CKER-FM, CJCN-FM's sister station in Edmonton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
