CFRB

CFRB (1010 AM) is a commercial radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is owned by Bell Media and carries a News/Talk radio format. Its studios and offices are in the Entertainment District at 250 Richmond Street West. One of the oldest surviving radio stations active in Toronto, CFRB went on the air on February 19, 1927, as 9RB owned by Edward S. Rogers Sr., with the callsign derived from its parent Rogers Vacuum Tube Company, and the station moved to its current 1010 AM frequency in 1948. Throughout ownership changes for most of the decade and its format remained intact, the station was acquired by Slaight Broadcasting in 1985, before being acquired by Astral Media in 2007 and ultimately sold to Bell Canada, rival company of Rogers Communications, founded by Rogers Sr.'s son, Ted Rogers Jr., in 2013¹. CFRB is a clear channel station powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum permitted in Canada. While it is a Class A station, it also must protect CBR in Calgary, which shares Class A status on 1010 AM. CFRB uses a four-tower array directional antenna in the Clarkson neighbourhood of Mississauga. CFRB is simulcast on shortwave station CFRX at 6.07 MHz in the 49 metre band and on sister station 99.9 CKFM-FM-HD2, a digital subchannel. CFRB is also heard across Canada on Bell Satellite TV channel 964.

CFRB (1010 AM) is a commercial radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is owned by Bell Media and carries a News/Talk radio format. Its studios and offices are in the Entertainment District at 250 Richmond Street West. One of the oldest surviving radio stations active in Toronto, CFRB went on the air on February 19, 1927, as 9RB owned by Edward S. Rogers Sr., with the callsign derived from its parent Rogers Vacuum Tube Company, and the station moved to its current 1010 AM frequency in 1948. Throughout ownership changes for most of the decade and its format remained intact, the station was acquired by Slaight Broadcasting in 1985, before being acquired by Astral Media in 2007 and ultimately sold to Bell Canada, rival company of Rogers Communications, founded by Rogers Sr.'s son, Ted Rogers Jr., in 2013. CFRB is a clear channel station powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum permitted in Canada. While it is a Class A station, it also must protect CBR in Calgary, which shares Class A status on 1010 AM. CFRB uses a four-tower array directional antenna in the Clarkson neighbourhood of Mississauga. CFRB is simulcast on shortwave station CFRX at 6.07 MHz in the 49 metre band and on sister station 99.9 CKFM-FM-HD2, a digital subchannel. CFRB is also heard across Canada on Bell Satellite TV channel 964.

Shortwave relay

CFRX is a shortwave relay of CFRB, simulcasting the station's news–talk programming on 6.070 MHz in the 49-metre band. The station operates with a nominal transmitter power of 1 kW from CFRB's transmitter site in the Clarkson neighbourhood of Mississauga. CFRX began broadcasting at 7:30 a.m. on February 11, 1937. It was established to extend CFRB's programming to northern Ontario and western Canada, where conventional radio service was limited. Its original transmitter was located with CFRB's facilities in Aurora, Ontario, and used two vertical towers arranged to direct the signal northwest. When CFRB prepared to move its transmitting facilities from Aurora to Clarkson in 1948, the company considered discontinuing CFRX. It instead relocated the shortwave transmitter after receiving hundreds of letters from listeners asking that the service be retained. During the 2000s, CFRX installed a solid-state transmitter and replaced its directional antenna system with a single vertical antenna producing a non-directional signal. The change broadened its potential coverage, including reception by Canadians travelling or spending the winter in the United States. Although the transmitter is rated at 1 kW, its reported output has been approximately 900 watts. The National Research Council discontinued the shortwave broadcasts of its CHU time-signal station on June 22, 2026, leaving CFRX as the last shortwave station broadcast from Canada.

Notable staff

Charles Adler Kate Aitken Richard Alway Andy Barrie Dick Beddoes Jaymz Bee Pierre Berton and Charles Templeton Mark Breslin Mike Bullard Bill Carroll Desmond Cole Michael Coren Wally Crouter Fred Davis Jack Dennett Dave Devall Erica Ehm Mark Elliot Tarek Fateh Royce Frith Marty Galin & Avrum Rosensweig (Marty & Avrum) Dan Gallagher Larry Grossman Monty Hall Avery Haines Jane Hawtin Larry Henderson Foster Hewitt Dave Hodge Mary Ito Erica Johnson Taborah Johnson Paul Jones Betty Kennedy Andrew Krystal Stephen LeDrew Brian Linehan John Majhor Pat Marsden Denton Massey Brian McFarlane Wes McKnight Farah Nasser David Onley Valerie Pringle Leslie Roberts Bruce Rogers Lynne Russell Percy Saltzman Peter Shurman Peter Silverman Gordon Sinclair Evan Solomon Larry Solway Ray Sonin George Stroumboulopoulos Cy Strange Ellie Tesher Mike Toth Claire Wallace Wayne and Shuster Brian Williams and Don Cherry Ted Woloshyn

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