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Originally Posted by NowhereMan 1966
I posted my observations on a local, Pittsburgh TV/Radio website ( www.pbrtv.com) and I was told the same thing. I'm surprised the Canadians kept the French side of the CBC on the old AM band. |
CBC has four networks, two French and two English. Almost all of the
transmitters of the four networks are now FM (historically 'Radio 1'
was on AM and 'Radio 2' on FM), but as I noted a few AM transmitters
remain, such as this one in Toronto. The transition to FM, at least
here in Montreal, took place in 1998. The two old Montreal AM
frequencies (690 and 940 kHz) were reassigned to commercial all news
stations (French and English respectively), but the station on 940
kHz recently switched to an oldies format, claiming insufficient revenue.
We have a few other AM stations remaining in Montreal, including
a multilingual one (1280 kHz), one for the Haitian community and
a few others. Good DXing!