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CFRB is an AM radio clear-channel station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, broadcasting a news/talk at 1010 kHz, with a shortwave radio simulcast on CFRX at 6.07 MHz on the 49m band. [1]

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Alternating current

Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.

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AM broadcasting

AM broadcasting is a radio broadcasting technology, which employs amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.

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AM stereo

AM stereo is a term given to a series of mutually incompatible techniques for radio broadcasting stereo audio in the AM band in a manner that is compatible with standard AM receivers.

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Argus Corporation

The Argus Corporation was an investment holding company based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Astral Media

Astral Media (branded simply as Astral since 2010) was a Canadian media corporation.

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Batteryless radio

A batteryless radio is a radio receiver which does not require the use of a battery to provide it with electrical power.

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Bell Canada

Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Bell Media

Bell Media Inc. (French: Bell Média) is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the parent company of the former telephone monopoly Bell Canada).

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Bell Media Radio

Bell Media Radio is the Canadian radio broadcasting division of Bell Media which is owned by BCE Inc. The division owns the bulk of the radio properties owned by CHUM Limited in 2007 when it was purchased by CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media), and Astral Media when it was purchased by Bell in 2013.

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Bill Carroll (broadcaster)

Bill Carroll is a Canadian radio personality who has hosted talk radio shows in both Canada and the United States.

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Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport is a small international airport located on the Toronto Islands in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Bloor Street

Bloor Street is a major east–west residential and commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

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Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique designation for a transmitter station.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Canadian Communications Foundation

The Canadian Communications Foundation (CCF) is a history of Canadian broadcasting for radio and television chronicles and documents.

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Canadian content

Canadian content (CanCon, cancon or can-con) refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requirements, derived from the Broadcasting Act of Canada, that radio and television broadcasters (including cable and satellite specialty channels) must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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CBC News

CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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CBLA-FM

CBLA-FM is a Canadian radio station.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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CBS News Radio

CBS News Radio, formerly known as CBS Radio News and historically known as the CBS Radio Network, provides news to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States.

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CFRX

CFRX is the international shortwave relay of CFRB, a news/talk radio station in Toronto, Ontario.

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CFTO-DT

CFTO-DT, VHF channel 9, is the flagship station of the CTV Television Network located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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CHKT

CHKT is a Canadian radio station, airing at 1430 AM in Toronto, Ontario.

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CHUM (AM)

CHUM, broadcasting at 1050 kHz, is a Canadian radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario.

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CHUM-FM

CHUM-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 104.5 MHz in Toronto, Ontario.

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CJBC (AM)

CJBC is a Canadian Class A clear-channel station, which broadcasts at 860 AM in Toronto, Ontario.

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CKFM-FM

CKFM-FM, also known as 99.9 Virgin Radio, is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 99.9 FM in Toronto, Ontario.

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CKVR-DT

CKVR-DT, virtual channel 3 (VHF digital channel 10), is the flagship station of the CTV Two television system licensed to Barrie, Ontario, Canada and serving the Toronto, Ontario, Canada television market..

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Clarkson, Mississauga

Clarkson, also called Clarkson Village, is a neighbourhood in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, situated in the southwest corner of the city, along the shore of Lake Ontario.

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Clear-channel station

A clear-channel station is an AM radio station in North America that has the highest protection from interference from other stations, particularly concerning night-time skywave propagation.

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CNR Radio

CNR Radio or CN Radio (officially the Canadian National Railways Radio Department), Canadian Encyclopedia, accessed January 23, 2008 was the first national radio network in North America.

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Conrad Black

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG (born 25 August 1944) is a British former newspaper publisher, author.

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CP24

CP24, formerly CablePulse24, is a Canadian English language Category A specialty cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE, Inc. Based in Toronto, the channel focuses on local news from the Greater Toronto Area and Southern Ontario, while also covering national and international news.

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CTV Television Network

The CTV Television Network (commonly referred to as CTV) is an English-language broadcast television network in Canada launched in 1961.

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Doug Ford

Douglas Robert Ford (born November 20, 1964) is a Canadian businessman and politician who is the 26th and current Premier of Ontario since June 29, 2018 following the 2018 Ontario general election and Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario since March 10, 2018.

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Drive time

In radio broadcasting, drive time refers to dayparts in which radio broadcasters attempt to reach the large number of people who listen to their car radios while driving to and from work.

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Edward S. Rogers Jr.

Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers Jr., OC (May 27, 1933 – December 2, 2008) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.

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Edward S. Rogers Sr.

Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers (June 21, 1900 – May 6, 1939) was a Canadian pioneer in the radio industry and the founder of the Rogers Vacuum Tube Company and CFRB radio station.

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Electric battery

An electric battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections provided to power electrical devices such as flashlights, smartphones, and electric cars.

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Flagship (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, a flagship (also known as a flagship station) is the broadcast station which originates a television network, or a particular radio or television program that plays a key role in the branding of and consumer loyalty to a network or station.This includes both direct network feeds and broadcast syndication, but generally not backhauls.

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Hart Massey

Hart Almerrin Massey (April 29, 1823 – February 20, 1896) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who was a member of the prominent Massey family.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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Hockey Night in Canada

Hockey Night in Canada (often abbreviated Hockey Night or HNIC) is a branding used for Canadian television presentations of the National Hockey League.

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Humble & Fred

Humble & Fred is a Toronto-based Canadian radio show, featuring co-hosts "Humble" Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson, which has aired on a variety of Greater Toronto Area radio stations since 1989.

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Jarvis Street

Jarvis Street is a north-south thoroughfare in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, passing through some of the oldest developed areas in the city.

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Jerry Agar

Jerry Agar is a conservative talk radio personality.

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Jim Richards (Canadian broadcaster)

Jim Richards (born 1966) is a Canadian radio personality.

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John Moore (broadcaster)

John Sanford Moore (born June 5, 1966), better known as John Moore, is a Canadian radio and television broadcaster, film critic, voice actor and comedian.

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John Tory

John Howard Tory, (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian politician who is the 65th and current Mayor of Toronto, in office since 2014.

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Lakeshore Road

Lakeshore Road (originally Lake Shore Road) is a historic roadway in the Canadian province of Ontario, running through the city of Burlington and the town of Oakville in Halton Region, as well as the city of Mississauga in Peel Region.

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List of North American broadcast station classes

This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Mediabase

Mediabase is a music industry service that monitors radio station airplay in 180 US and Canadian markets.

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Metro Morning

Metro Morning is CBC Radio One's local morning program in Toronto, airing on CBLA-FM and is hosted by Matt Galloway.

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Michael Coren

Michael Coren (born 15 January 1959) is a British-Canadian columnist, author, public speaker, radio host and television talk show host.

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Mississauga

Mississauga Also pronounced: Dictionary Reference:, The Free Dictionary: is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Montegu Black

George Montegu Black III (August 6, 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba – January 10, 2002 in Toronto, Ontario) was the older brother of media baron Conrad Black and son of Winnipeg, Manitoba businessman George Montegu Black II.

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Much (TV channel)

Much (formerly and commonly known as MuchMusic) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel currently owned by Bell Media.

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Network affiliate

In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or all of the lineup of television programs or radio programs of a television or radio network.

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News

News is information about current events.

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Numeris

Numeris (formerly the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement, or BBM Canada) is a Canadian audience measurement organization.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Ontario Highway 2

King's Highway 2, commonly referred to as Highway 2, is the lowest-numbered provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario (there is no numbered Ontario Highway 1) and was originally part of a series of identically numbered highways in multiple provinces which together joined Windsor, Ontario to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Phantom radio station

A phantom radio station was a station which did not operate their own radio transmitter, rather leasing unused airtime from a station who owned the hardware.

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Ray Sonin

Ray Sonin (23 June 1907–20 August 1991) was an English-born broadcaster on Toronto radio station CFRB and hosted several popular radio programs, including Calling All Britons and Down Memory Lane.

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Rob Ford

Robert Bruce Ford (May 28, 1969 – March 22, 2016) was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th Mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014.

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Rogers Communications

Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company.

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Rogers Vacuum Tube Company

Rogers Vacuum Tube Company (formally named Radio Manufacturing Corporation Limited) was founded as "Standard Radio Manufacturing" in 1925 by Edward S. Rogers, Sr. to sell Rogers "Batteryless" radio using vacuum tube technology.

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Seven Psychopaths

Seven Psychopaths is a 2012 dark comedy crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh.

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Shortwave radio

Shortwave radio is radio transmission using shortwave radio frequencies.

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Simulcast

Simulcast, a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast, is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously).

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Slaight Communications

Slaight Communications is a Canadian radio broadcasting company.

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Southern Ontario

Southern Ontario is a primary region of the province of Ontario, Canada, the other primary region being Northern Ontario.

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Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.

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Ted Woloshyn

Ted Woloshyn (born December 1953) is a Toronto broadcaster.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Phil Hendrie Show

The World of Phil Hendrie is a comedy talk radio program.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto Entertainment District

The Toronto Entertainment District is an area in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Pearson International Airport

Toronto Pearson International Airport (often referred to as Toronto Pearson, Pearson Airport, or simply Pearson) is the primary international airport serving Toronto, its metropolitan area, and surrounding region known as the Golden Horseshoe in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Santa Claus Parade

The Toronto Santa Claus Parade is a Santa Claus parade held annually on the third Sunday of November in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Wally Crouter

Wallace Clarence "Wally" Crouter (August 5, 1923 – March 28, 2016) was a Canadian radio broadcaster best known for his career at CFRB radio in Toronto, spanning half a century, most of which was spent as the station's top-rated morning man.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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1010 AM

The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1010 kHz:1010 AM is a Canadian clear-channel frequency; CFRB, Toronto, Ontario and CBR, Calgary, Alberta are both Class A, 50,000 watt stations.

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250 Richmond Street West

250 Richmond Street West is a studio complex in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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299 Queen Street West

299 Queen Street West, also known as Bell Media Queen Street, is the headquarters of the television/radio broadcast hub of Bell Canada's media unit, Bell Media located at the intersection of Queen Street West and John Street in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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860 AM

The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 860 kHz: CJBC is the dominant clear-channel station on 860 AM in North America.

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CFRB (AM), CFRB 1010, CFRB Radio, CFRB-AM, NEWSTALK 1010 CFRB, Newstalk 1010.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFRB

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