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CHNO-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 103.9 on the FM dial in Sudbury, Ontario. The station is branded on-air as Rewind 103.9 with a classic hits format. ==History of CHNO== The station began broadcasting on June 24, 1947 on AM 1440. It was a bilingual radio station, airing programming in both English and French, and was an affiliate of both CBC Radio's Dominion Network and Radio-Canada. It was operated by ''Sudbury Broadcasting'', a company owned by F. Baxter Ricard and his wife Alma Ricard, and was the first bilingual radio station in Canada outside of Quebec. On November 9, 1954, CHNO moved to AM 900. In 1957, Ricard opened CFBR on AM 550 as a full-time French-language station, and CHNO switched to full-time English. The licensing of CFBR, which took over the Radio-Canada affiliation from CHNO, made Sudbury Broadcasting the first commercial broadcaster in Canada licensed to operate two AM radio stations in the same city.〔(Ricard, F. Baxter - Pioneer - Member of CAB Hall of Fame ), Canadian Communications Foundation〕 On December 31, 1969, CFBR and CHNO swapped frequencies, CHNO moving to 550 and CFBR taking over the 900 slot. On May 14, 1976, the CRTC denied an application by Sudbury Broadcasting Co. Ltd. to change CHNO's frequency from 550 kHz to 570 kHz.〔Decision CRTC 76-249 - Denial to change CHNO's frequency from 550 kHz to 570 kHz - 14 May 1976.〕 In 1980, Sudbury Broadcasting launched a new FM station CJMX. That same year, CHNO received approval to increase daytime power from 10,000 watts to 50,000 watts with the nighttime power to remain at 10,000 watts and would remain on 550 kHz. Also in 1980, Ricard also became a major shareholder in Mid-Canada Communications. Sudbury Broadcasting continued to operate independently, although it was eventually merged into Mid-Canada Radio in 1985.〔(Decision CRTC 85-146 )〕 In 1990, Mid-Canada sold the stations to Pelmorex.〔(Decision CRTC 90-676 )〕 Following this sale, CFBR adopted the new call letters CHYC. In the 1970s and 1980s, CHNO was Northern Ontario's most listened-to and most influential radio station, broadcasting a Top 40 format branded as "55 CHNO", "Rock Radio CHNO 55", "Sudbury's Best Rock", and "Sudbury's Hit Music Leader, NO55" (pronounced "N-oh fifty-five"). However, the 1990 launch of CJRQ ended CHNO's dominance, and in July 1992, CHNO flipped to an oldies format as "Oldies 55".〔"Easy listening: Sudbury's newest radio station enjoying success of new format". ''Sudbury Star'', September 16, 2000.〕 After struggling through a variety of formats, including classic rock as "AM 55 The Crusher" in 1994,〔 country and talk radio in 1995 and 1996,〔 the station reverted to oldies in 1997.〔 Former program director Scott Jackson, now the manager of CJLF-FM in Barrie, has stated that CHNO and CJMX were the most neglected stations in the entire Pelmorex corporate family during the time that he worked there, despite being the network's nominal flagships.〔(Recollections from former program director Scott Jackson )〕 In 1998, Pelmorex sold CJMX to Telemedia. The following year, Pelmorex sold CHNO and CHYC to Haliburton Broadcasting Group. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CHNO-FM」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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