CANADIAN RADIO NEWS –Jon Pearkins jon@pearkins.com
CBS Sports Radio is now Infinity Sports Network, as the result of a Cease-and-Desist Order from CBS. The name change occurred on April 15th. Rogers SportsNet stations in Canada run Infinity late at night
and are listed below.
On May 13th, the CRTC agreed with Corus that its current precarious financial position justifies relief from some CRTC-imposed fees used to subsidize Canadian programming content. And that Corus differs from
other large Canadian TV and Radio owners now that Shaw has been sold to Rogers. In that Rogers halted financial support to Shaw, most notably, the local television News subsidy, and redirected the funding to Rogers’ own stations. However, it is still not enough good news to elevate Corus out of its recent Penny Stock status.
All times shown are Eastern Local Time, currently EDT. {UT -4}
580 AB Edmonton CHAH Although predominantly South Asian language programming, most notably Hindi and Punjabi, the station is block programmed with other languages, too. 0000-0100 features the languages of China. And, weekdays only, from 2000-2100 is the Filipino program.
590 ON Toronto CJCL Overnights from the Infinity Sports Network, a recent renaming of CBS Sports Radio.
630 AB Edmonton CHED Despite iHeartRadio Canada originally being solely licensed to competitor Bell Media, Corus has added its 39 radio stations to the iHeartRadio Canada platform. Including CHED. Expect to hear a lot of iHeart promos on the station.
640 ON Richmond Hill CFIQ Now a member of iHeartRadio Canada.
650 BC Richmond CISL Overnights from the Infinity Sports Network, a recent renaming of CBS Sports Radio.
680 MB Winnipeg CJOB Now a member of iHeartRadio Canada.
730 BC Vancouver CKGO Now a member of iHeartRadio Canada.
770 AB Calgary CHQR Now a member of iHeartRadio Canada.
870 BC Invermere CKIR Noted recently with such a strong signal in multiple locations that they must be running all or some nights with their 1KW non-directional day power. ID is BOUNCE 106.3 as they are
licensed as a rebroadcast transmitter of CKGR-FM Golden BC.
880 AB Edmonton CHQT Now a member of iHeartRadio Canada.
900 AB Hamilton CHML Now a member of iHeartRadio Canada.
960 AB Calgary CFAC Late evenings and overnights from the Infinity Sports Network, a recent renaming of CBS Sports Radio.
980 BC New Westminster CKNW Now a member of iHeartRadio Canada.
980 ON London CFPL Now a member of iHeartRadio Canada.
1130 BC Vancouver CKWX As well as national News and local News, CityNews 1130 now does some combined Vancouver-Calgary newscasts with CFFR-660.
1460 ON Guelph CJOY Now a member of iHeartRadio Canada.
Canadian Radio News (CRN) posts on https://radiowest.ca by Dan Sys provide much of the information for this column, with additional tips from Bruce Portzer.
IRCA DX Monitor June 8, published June 3 via WOR iog (2024-06-04)