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CJAD is an AM radio station, owned by Bell Media, operating in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station has an English language news/talk format and identifies itself as 'CJAD 800'. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it broadcasts on 800 kHz. It has a daytime power of 50,000 watts and a nighttime power of 10,000 watts, as a class B station, using a very directional antenna with different patterns day and night to protect various other stations on the same frequency, including CJBQ in Belleville, Ontario; a vacant allocation in Quebec City (formerly CHRC); CKLW in Windsor, Ontario; and Class-A clear-channel station XEROK-AM in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The antenna is a four-tower array and is located near Saint-Edouard, while its studios are located on Rene-Levesque Boulevard East in Montreal. ==History== CJAD was founded by J. Arthur Dupont in 1945, on whose name the call letters were based. It is often called Montreal's heritage anglophone station, particularly since the demise of the city's oldest anglophone station, CINW (successor to CFCF, Canada's first radio station). In its first years, CJAD was based on De La Montagne street in Montreal (now the site of O'Sullivan College). In 1961, CJAD was purchased by Standard Broadcasting. In 1978, control of Standard Broadcasting was purchased by Conrad Black via Hollinger Inc.. In 1985, Standard was purchased by Slaight Communications, a privately held company owned by J. Allan Slaight. In 1962, a sister station, CJFM, was launched. Always separately programmed, CJFM's programming became totally different from CJAD only from about 1976. For much of its life, CJAD had a full service format. The music was mainly adult contemporary plus two specialized shows on weekends — The Bandstand with Dick Irvin, and Starlight Concert with Rod Dewar. In 1995, CJAD shifted its format to full-time news/talk, dropping all music and entertainment, save for the Sunday morning Trivia Show and the CJAD Comedy Show. Starting in 1992, almost all of CJAD's programming was simulcast on Corus Entertainment-owned CKTS 900 in Sherbrooke. On November 19, 2006, CKTS ceased broadcasting and its licence was surrendered to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). This, according to Corus, was because of high ongoing maintenance costs that neither they nor Standard were willing to cover.〔(CKTS to stop rebroadcasting CJAD ), Corus press release, November 17, 2006〕 In April 2007, Astral Media and Standard Broadcasting announced that Standard had agreed to a purchase offer by Astral. On Labour Day Weekend, 2012, CJAD, as well as its sister stations in the Montreal Astral cluster, moved from 1411 Fort Street to new facilities in the Bell Media Radio building at Rene-Levesque East and Papineau. 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「CJAD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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