CKPC (AM)

CKPC (1380 AM) is a radio station in Brantford, Ontario. Owned by Evanov Radio Group, it broadcasts a full service country music format, also including John Tesh's syndicated Intelligence for Your Life, the Casey Clarke Country Countdown on weekends, and a weeknight Christian radio program. The station also broadcasts a folk music program on weekend evenings.

CKPC
CityBrantford, Ontario
Frequency1380 kHz (AM)
BrandingAM 1380
SloganHometown Radio
Programming
Formatcountry / full service radio
Ownership
OwnerEvanov Radio Group
Sister stationsCKPC-FM
History
First air date1923 (1923)
Former frequencies1210 kHz (1923–1930)
1010 kHz (1930–1931)
880 kHz (1931–1934)
930 kHz (1934–1947)
Call sign meaningCK Preston, Canada
Technical information
ClassB
Power25,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates43°03′20.2″N 80°18′54″W
Links
WebcastListen Live
Websitewww.am1380.ca

History

CKPC went on the air in 1923. Its original city of licence was Preston, Ontario (now part of the city of Cambridge, Ontario). The station first started out as an amateur radio station, but the founder (Wallace Russ) quickly applied for a broadcast licence after a few trial broadcasts. His licence was granted, and he started broadcasting from his home in Preston at a power of just 5 watts. After Russ sold the station to his friend Cyrus Dolph, he still remained active with the station, and watched it grow throughout its early years.[1] Its power would later increase to 25 watts in 1927, doubling in power and moving to 1010 kHz at 50 watts in 1930, and to 880 kHz. The station's main content was local news, and local artists and talents from Kitchener, Hamilton, and Brantford. In 1933, Cyrus Dolph purchased the station, which was soon moved from Preston to Brantford.[2]

In 1934, the station moved to Brantford and to 930 kHz on the AM dial; it would move to 1380 kHz, also its current location on the band, in 1947. The company added an FM station in 1949, CKPC-FM, operating at 250 watts and simulcasting the AM signal. (The FM station would not start 100% independent programming until 1976, when its power increased to 50,000 watts.)[3] In 1951, Florence Buchanan assumed full control of Telephone City Broadcast Limited, including CKPC-FM and CKPC-AM, from her father Cyrus. The AM station then had a 1,000 watt signal. She became the first woman in Canada to own and/or operate a radio station.

In 1959, CKPC built a new transmitter and increased power to 10,000 watts. In 1972, Richard (R.D.) Buchanan purchased Telephone City Broadcast Ltd. from his mother Florence.

On March 15, 1999, Telephone City Broadcast Ltd. was denied a licence to add an FM rebroadcast transmitter at Simcoe to operate on 98.9 MHz with an effective radiated power of 1,090 watts. The proposed transmitter was intended to correct coverage inadequacies in CKPC's AM service to the Simcoe, Port Dover and Delhi area.[4]

On June 1, 2004 CKPC-AM switched formats from adult contemporary to oldies. Its power increased from 10,000 watts to 25,000 watts in 2007.[5][6]

In 2009, after the death of then owner Richard Buchanan, the CRTC approved the sale of Telephone City Broadcast Limited from the Estate of R.D. Buchanan[7][8] to William Vasil Evanov, Evanov Communications, through the transfer of all issued and outstanding shares. Telephone City was the licensee of CKPC-AM and CKPC-FM.[9][10]

On June 24, 2010, the station flipped to its current country format.

In February 2020, the CRTC approved a request by Evanov to move sister station CFWC-FM's Christian format to CKPC, so that it can move the country format to FM.[11]

References
  1. "CKPC". Hammond Museum of Radio. Hammond Museum of Radio. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2017. CKPC first went on the air in 1923 in the town of Preston when Mr. Wallace Russ and two of his radio "ham" friends, Tom Mead of and Charles Bonner of Galt were experimenting with a low-powered radio transmitter. Suddenly the phone rang. It was a neighbour reporting that he could hear the three men talking through his radio receiver. The experimenters were unaware that their voices were being transmitted on the broadcast band, and so CKPC hit the airwaves for the first time, in an unscheduled entrance.
  2. "CKPC Brantford". Broadcasting History. Bill Dulmage & Mike Tennant. February 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  3. "CKPC Brantford". Broadcasting History. Bill Dulmage & Mike Tennant. February 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  4. Decision CRTC 99-64
  5. Decisions CRTC 90-811
  7. Ibbotson, Heather (30 July 2008). "CKPC radio stations sold". Simcoe Reformer. Simcoe, Ontario. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  8. Media, Sun (10 July 2009). "CKPC radio stations sold". Simcoe Reformer. Simcoe, Ontario. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  9. Broadcasting Information Bulletin CRTC 2009-634, CRTC, October 8, 2009
  10. 2009-0981-4
  11. "CFWC-FM Brantford and CKPC Brantford – Technical changes and licence amendments". CRTC. 2020-02-17. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
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