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CFOX was an
English language Canadian AM radio station located in
Pointe-Claire,
Quebec from 1960 to 1977. It later operated as
CKO, the Montreal station of the news network of
the same name, until 1989.
With studios based at 203 Hymus Blvd. corner St-Jean blvd. in the suburb of
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, the station went on air on March 15,
1960 as a
Adult Contemporary station with 1,000 watts of power, but was changed on February 5, 1963 to 10,000 watts. In 1964 the station format changed to 24 hours "Country" and in
1965 to a
Top 40 station.
The station was originally operated by
Lakeshore Broadcasting Ltd (which was owned by noted Montreal radio journalist
Gord Sinclair, son of Toronto radio/TV journalist
Gordon Sinclair). It was sold to
Allan Slaight in
1972 and he converted it to a "new country" format. In
1975, the station went back to a
Top 40 format till September 1977 but was just a shadow of its former self. Later that year it was purchased by the
CKO news network, changing the call sign accordingly and converting it from
Top 40 to a news radio format. (The CFOX calls would later resurface in January 1979 at an
FM station in
Vancouver, British Columbia.) The station went off air when that network ceased broadcasting during a noon newscast in November
1989. The news was produced, but never aired. The broadcasting licences for the
CKO network were turned into the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in
1990, and to this day the 1470 frequency hasn't been reactivated in the Montreal area. Its transmitter site with three antennas in
Chateauguay was demolished in 1992.
CFOX is perhaps most famous for getting exclusive access to
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono's
1969 bed-in for peace in room 1742 at the
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, during which the song "
Give Peace a Chance" was recorded.
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