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Aug 10, 2022 · Leslie would be a nice fit on the new CFQR 600 AM. THE QUEBEC SENATORS: Will the NHL’s Ottawa Senators stay in the Nation’s Capital or be purchased by Quebecor’s Pierre Karl Peladeau and ...
Jun 12, 2022 · It was a little less than 10 years ago that the group was given its second licence by the CRTC, for an English-language station at 600 AM that it promised would be a news-talk station to rival CJAD. It was five years ago this month that CFQR 600 went on the air from its restored transmission site in Kahnawake (formerly used by Cogeco for 940 News and Info 690).
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Jan 19, 2024 · Phil Richards, a serial entrepreneur from the West Island, is awaiting formal CRTC approval for his purchase of CFQR 600 and 940 AM, a French language station.
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The following was said on air by Rand shortly before 7:30 Friday morning: You can listen to audio of this announcement in MP3 format here. Rand said the text of the announcement was given to management beforehand, and had he known about Spencer’s impending hiring he would have deleted the sentence about sticking around as the station finds someone ...
If this seems like more than just a simple case of a long-time radio personality hanging up the mike (he’s pushing 60, but he said he’s “not ready to retire”), it’s because Rand is one of the few remaining people in commercial music radio in Montreal’s anglo market who isn’t afraid not to sound like a marketer sometimes. Where the standard procedur...
Though Rand’s departure was clearly more amicable than was Ted Bird’s from CHOM last year (Bird has since taken a job at K103 Kahnawake), there are similarities in the motivations, as hinted by Rand himself shortly after Bird’s departure: On Friday, Rand agreed that a lack of fun was a big reason for leaving. “It became more and more obvious that t...
The Gazette posted a brief based on information above, and Bill Brownstein wrote a story for Saturday’s city section. CTV Montreal takes the story a step further and reports about a source saying Cat Spencer is quitting Virgin Radio and coming to the Q. Christine Long mentions the news during the noon newscast almost as an aside to a CHOM FM bikini...
It didn’t take long for Rand’s colleagues in the Montreal radio industry to comment. Friend of the blog Terry DiMonte comments via Facebook and Twitter that Rand, a competitor for many years, is “a class act”. DiMonte, you’ll remember, also left Montreal’s music radio marketafter finding it wasn’t fun anymore. From CHOM’s Rob Kemp: “The Montreal ra...
The Rand and Spencer show obscured another shifting of personalities in the anglo radio sphere on Friday. Sonali Karnick, a longtime member of the CBC Daybreak team – most recently as its sports reporter – is leaving for Toronto to be a national sports reporter for CBC. Friday was her last day on Daybreak. And similarly, it didn’t take long for a r...
On June 28, 2017, a test broadcast began on AM 600 by TTP Media, the same owners as CFNV. The call sign was announced as CFQR (no relation to the former CFQR-FM, now CKBE-FM). [4] [5] On June 13, 2022, CFQR launched its morning drive program, Mornings Matter. The program was hosted by Jim Connell, a former host at CINW and CKMI-DT. In ...
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