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Until March 10, 2009, CFCF aired a weekday morning newscast at 6 a.m. called First News, which pre-empted the first half hour of Canada AM; anchored by Herb Luft, it was cancelled in favor of an early start time for Canada AM, which was then seen in its entirety starting at 6 a.m. Morning news briefs seen during Canada AM were also cancelled. Luft would continue his role as reporter for the ...
CFCF-TV’s start-up hours of operation would be: 9:55 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., seven days a week. Studios and offices were being set up at 7200 Hutchison Street. There would be three studios – one would be 20 x 30 feet and be used for sports, news, panel and interview shows.
An Ad promoted CFCF as having 5000 watts on 600, CFCF-FM with 3000 watts on 106.5 and CFCF-TV: application (for TV had been) filed. Slogan: CFCF Montreal – 600 KC – Tops The Dial. CFCF’s application for separate FM programming was deferred by the CBC board for further study. CFCF re-introduced the application again at the end of the year.
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Introduction Broadcasting. Vast distances and the isolation of communities have posed major problems for Canada. Radio and TV therefore have contributed immensely to the nation's cultural life, particularly radio in the case of music. Canada's broadcasting system is the world's most complex, being an amalgam of many privately owned profit-motivated...
The largest single component of the system is the publicly-owned CBC, which broadcasts not only through its own networks of stations and transmitters (by 1991 860 television and 673 radio) but also through privately owned 'affiliate' stations and transmitters with which the CBC has retransmission contracts (243 TV and 87 radio). The problem of cove...
As befits a nation so dependent on long-range communication, Canada has an honourable place in the early development of radio. Marconi, of course, is credited with accomplishing in 1901 the first trans-Atlantic 'interrupted code' transmission, from St John's, Nfld, but it was a Canadian, Reginald A. Fessenden, who developed the principle of continu...
From the first, the presentation of good music was given high priority in CBC broadcasting, and the musical public became indebted to the work of such early producers as Albert Chamberland, Morris 'Rusty' Davis, Georges Dufresne, and R.-O. Pelletier II in Montreal; Norbert Bauman, John Kannawin, and Ernest Morgan in Toronto; and Norman Lucas in Win...
The first CBC telecasts were seen in September of 1952. The impact of this powerful new medium on the patterns of radio music was, however, far from immediate. At first the TV medium itself was explored by imaginative producers (and in fact the CBC Montreal studios quickly became the second-largest producers of French-language programs in the world...
Although TV's roster of programs in the 1950s and into the1960s contained many riches, radio continued to provide the mainstay of the music listeners' expectations, and of musicians' employment. The period from the late 1940s to the early 1960s could truly be called the 'golden age' of music on Canadian radio, with a sumptuous program fare includin...
Whereas the foregoing has dealt with CBC music broadcasting within the country, Canada's musical image abroad had long been projected most ably by the CBC's International Service (in 1972 renamed Radio Canada International - RCI), operating from its inception in 1945, as the 'voice' of the federal government's Department of External Affairs, but fu...
Late in 1975 Robert Sunter, as head of music for the English radio networks, was named as successor to John Roberts, thus heralding new directions for those networks' music broadcasting policies. Earlier that year the CBC English Services division had released a 'Report of the CBC Radio Study Group on Programming of and about Arts, Music and Drama,...
The contribution of commercial TV is now, and always has been, virtually nil. As to private radio, over the years many stations had provided their listeners with small helpings of serious music fare from time to time. These might take the form of a 'Concert Hour' of recorded music hosted by a locally prominent musician, or perhaps a broadcast of th...
One other development in the late 1970s which may contain the germ of good TV music broadcasting was the emergence of provincial government educational TV program services, transmitting principally through cable (Canada at the time being one of the most heavily 'cablized' country in the world). It seemed that such services as those for Quebec, Onta...
Sep 20, 2022 · XWA became CFCF on Nov. 4, 1922, broadcasting at 500 watts from the country’s first broadcast studio in the Canada Cement Building in Phillips Square. “From that single station grew an industry that over the course of the next 12 years ushered in the modern era of mass communication,” reads a government release.
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May 3, 2020 · XWA changed its name to 9AM in 1921 and then CFCF (“Canada’s First, Canada’s Finest”) in 1922. It kept those call letters until 1991 when it became CIQC and finally CINW. Alas, the time ...
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Le Groupe Videotron Ltée of Montreal (TVA French Network and a major cable TV company), received CRTC approval to purchase CFCF-TV and its cable subsidiary, providing it subsequently sold CFCF-TV. On August 22, the CRTC approved the sale by Le Groupe Vidéotron Ltée of CF-12 Inc., (CFCF-TV) to WIC Television Ltd. (70%), and Capital Communications CDPQ inc. (30%).
