CIWW

CIWW is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 1310 kHz (AM) in Ottawa, Ontario. Owned by Rogers Communications, CIWW is one of several Rogers-owned stations with a news/talk/sports format, in this case branded as 1310 News. The station broadcasts with 50,000 watts from a transmitter site located at McKenna Casey Drive and Highway 416, with studios located at Thurston Drive and Conroy Road in Ottawa. CIWW is not a clear-channel station, but is the only station in Canada broadcasting on 1310 AM; it uses a daytime 2-tower directional antenna, and a nighttime 5-tower directional antenna. The nighttime signal is beamed mainly into Canada.[1]

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CIWW
CityOttawa, Ontario
Broadcast areaNational Capital Region
Frequency1310 kHz (AM)
Branding1310 News
SloganOttawa's News. Sports. Talk
Programming
FormatNews/Talk/Sports
AffiliationsToronto Blue Jays Radio Network
Ownership
OwnerRogers Media
(Rogers Media, Inc.)
Sister stationsCHEZ-FM, CISS-FM, CJET-FM, CKBY-FM
History
First air date1922
Former call signsCKCO, CKOY
Technical information
Facility ID104808
ClassB (Regional)
Power50 kW
Transmitter coordinates45°15′27.1″N 75°47′03.2″W
Links
Websitewww.1310news.com

History

The station was launched in 1922 by Dr. George Geldert, with the call sign CKCO. After changing frequencies a number of times (as most early AM radio stations in North America did), the station permanently adopted its current 1310 AM frequency in 1941. In 1945, CKCO became Ottawa's affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Dominion Network.

In 1949, the station was purchased by Southam, and changed its callsign to CKOY. The use of the CKCO call sign was in no way related to CKCO-TV in Kitchener, which signed on five years later.

Logo as "Oldies 1310", c. 1992–2010

In 1972, FM sister station CKBY-FM was launched. In 1978, after two failed attempts to sell the stations to Moffat Communications, the CRTC approved their sale to Maclean-Hunter. The station adopted its current call sign (CIWW) in 1985, along with an Oldies format (at the time mostly music of the late 1950s to early 1970s.) The name used over the air was W1310, followed by Sunny 1310. In 1992 the station changed to the branding of Oldies 1310. In 1994 the stations became part of Rogers Radio when Rogers acquired Maclean-Hunter.

First logo as 1310 News

On October 12, 2010, the station announced it would be adopting an all-news radio format, to be branded 1310 News, taking effect the following Monday, October 18, at 6:00 a.m.[2] CIWW is the fourth Rogers station to adopt a 24-hour all-news format after CFTR Toronto, CKWX Vancouver, and CFFR Calgary; the company also owns four other stations that combine the all-news format (during morning and afternoon drive) with talk programming.

The final song played on the station in its oldies format, at 5:55 a.m. on October 18, 2010, was "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)", a song which rapidly recounts radio from the 1950s, '60s & '70s. This was followed at 5:58 a.m. by an announcement that the format change was taking effect. This now officially leaves Ottawa as the largest Canadian market with no AM music stations.

Rogers announced on November 5, 2013 that CIWW would begin carrying Sportsnet Radio programing from Toronto sister station CJCL for the bulk of its schedule. The station continues its all-news format during drive time hours; it also introduced a local late-morning general-interest talk show, Talk to the Hand, hosted by Ed Hand. The move was concurrent with layoffs at Rogers.[3][4]

On November 24, 2014, 1310 News made a slight change to their schedule, which included morning news beginning a half-hour earlier at 5:00 am, Talk to the Hand was renamed to The Ed Hand Show and is now 3 hours instead of 2, from 10 – 1 pm. Afternoon news, hosted by Mark Day (actor) and Lisa Best, now begins an hour earlier at 2 pm but ends an hour earlier at 7 pm. Prime Time Sports runs between 7 and 8 pm.

On March 18, 2016, 1310NEWS named Mark Sutcliffe, a longtime Ottawa broadcaster as host of Ottawa Today, airing weekdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is repeated every weekend from 8 a.m.

On May 10, 2016, it was announced that former CTV Ottawa news anchor Carol Anne Meehan would be hosting The Carol Anne Meehan Show, which will air from 1 to 3 p.m. The show was later replaced by The Rick Gibbons Show in November 27, 2017.

On September 16, 2016, afternoon newscasts started beginning at 3 p.m.

1310News is the National Capital Region's home for radio broadcasts of the Toronto Blue Jays which, like the station, is owned by Rogers Communications.

Notable broadcasters
  • Mark Day (actor), Afternoon News Anchor, Talk Show Host and Actor.
  • Rick Gibbons, Host of The Rick Gibbons Show, weekdays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Mark Sutcliffe, Host of Ottawa Today, weekdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Former broadcasters
gollark: How do you know that you don't know other people who consumed soy‽ What if ALL consume soy?
gollark: That is definitely* a reasonable reason to dislike people. Also, how do you know that they consumed soy?
gollark: I mean, something something... selection bias? There's probably a more specific word. But you're more likely to see ridiculous extreme things if you seek out people who go around talking about this lots.
gollark: Have you considered the fact that you're maybe only seeing ridiculous extreme people?
gollark: Consume human milk, as nature intended.

References
  1. http://radio-locator.com/info/CIWW-AM
  2. Tony Lofaro (2010-10-12). "No more Oldies 1310 as station switches to all-news format". ottawacitizen.com. Archived from the original on 2010-10-16. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
  3. Pilieci, Vito (November 5, 2013). "Ottawa's 1310 News revamps programming in wake of Rogers layoffs". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
  4. Black, Alex (November 6, 2013). "Veteran broadcaster Ed Hand tackles local issues on 'Talk to the Hand'". 1310News. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
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