CFOX (AM)

CKO/CFOX

City	Pointe-Claire, Quebec
Broadcast area	Montreal, Quebec
Frequency	1470 kHz (AM)
First air date	1960
Format	top 40, then all-news
ERP	10,000 watts
Class	B
Owner	Lakeshore Broadcasting, then CKO Incorporated

CKO/CFOX was an English language Canadian AM radio station located in Pointe-Claire, Quebec from 1960 to 1989. The station's callsign was CFOX from 1960 to 1977 and it later operated as CKO, the Montreal station of the news network of the same name, from 1977 until 1989.

History

With studios based at 203 Hymus Blvd. in Pointe-Claire, the station went on air on March 15, 1960 as CFOX with an adult contemporary format with 1,000 watts of power, but was changed on February 5, 1963 to 10,000 watts. In 1964 the station format changed to country, and in 1965 to a Top 40 station.

The station was originally operated by Lakeshore Broadcasting, which was owned by noted Montreal radio journalist Gord Sinclair Jr. (the son of Toronto radio/TV journalist Gordon Sinclair). It was sold to Allan Slaight in 1972, and he converted it to a country format. In 1975, the station went back to a Top 40 format until September 1977.

Later that year it was purchased by the CKO news network, changing the call sign to CKO accordingly and converting it from Top 40 to an all-news format. The CFOX calls would later resurface in January 1979 at an FM station in Vancouver, British Columbia.

In 1986, CKO applied to convert from the AM dial to the FM dial at 95.1 MHz; that application was denied on March 19, 1987.^[1] (95.1 FM has since been occupied by CBF-FM, after that station's relocation from 690 kHz in 1998.) On June 20, 1989, the commission approved an application by changing the frequency from 1470 kHz to 650 kHz, as a way to improve reception in areas of Montreal Island; CKO's frequency change proposal was never implemented.^[2]

The station went off air when the network ceased broadcasting during a noon newscast in November 1989. The news was produced, but never aired. The broadcasting licences for the CKO network were returned to the CRTC in 1990. To this day the 650/1470 frequencies has not been reactivated in the Montreal area; in addition, the 1470 frequency would no longer be available in Montreal, following the 2007 sign on of CHOU on 1450, whose allocation relocated to Montreal from Granby. Its transmitter site with three antennas in Châteauguay was demolished in 1992.

CFOX is perhaps most famous for getting exclusive access to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 Bed-in for peace in room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, during which the song "Give Peace a Chance" was recorded.

References

↑ Decision CRTC 87-189 Denial of Montreal's CKO conversion to the FM dial. 19 March 1987
↑ Decision CRTC 89-345 Approval of Montreal's frequency change from 1470 kHz to 650 kHz. 20 June 1989

External links

Marc Denis' CFOX 1470 Radio Archive
Historical information on 1470 CFOX from the Canadian Communications Foundation.
Query the REC's Canadian station database for 650CKO

Radio stations in Montreal and surrounding area

Montreal AM	CKGM 690 CKAC 730 CJAD 800 CFNV 940 CHRF 980 CFMB 1280 CJWI 1410 CHOU 1450 CHRN 1610 CJRS 1650 CJLO 1690 Defunct CINF 690 CINW 940 CJMS 1280 CHLP 1410 CKO/CFOX 1470 CKLM 1570

Montreal FM	CHDO 88.1 CBME 88.5 CISM 89.3 CKUT 90.3 CHIL 90.7 CIRA 91.3 CKLX 91.9 CKBE 92.5 CBM 93.5 CKMF 94.3 CBF 95.1 CJFM 95.9 CKOI 96.9 CHOM 97.7 CJPX 99.5 CKVL 100.1 CBFX 100.7 CIBL 101.5 CBMG 101.9 CINQ 102.3 CILO 102.9 CHOU-1 104.5 CBME-1 104.7 CKDG 105.1 CKIN 106.3 CITE 107.3 Defunct CFTL 96.7 (Pirate) CJRM-FM 98.5 CKAV-10 106.7

Adjacent communities	Acton Vale CFID 103.7 Akwesasne CKON 97.3 Châteauguay/Candiac CHAI 101.9 Granby CFXM 104.9 Hudson/Saint-Lazare CHSV 106.7 Joliette CJLM 103.5 Kahnawake CKKI 89.9 CKRK 103.7 Laval CJLV 1570 CFGL 105.7 Longueuil CHMP 98.5 CHAA 103.3 Saint-Constant CJMS 1040 Saint-Hyacinthe CFEI 106.5 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu CFZZ 104.1 Salaberry-de-Valleyfield CKOD 103.1 Sorel-Tracy CJSO 101.7 Vaudreuil-Dorion CJVD 100.1 Defunct CHEF 1450 (Granby)

Specialty services	HMWN Radio Maria International Tamil Radio Radio Humsafar

Adjacent markets	North Country Region, NY Burlington VT / Plattsburgh NY Cornwall, ON

Quebec radio markets Abitibi-Témiscamingue Bas-Saint-Laurent Centre-du-Québec Chaudière-Appalaches Côte-Nord Gaspésie Gatineau Laurentides Mauricie Montreal Nord-du-Québec Quebec City Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Sherbrooke/Estrie See also List of radio stations in Quebec

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