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Foster William Hewitt, was a Canadian radio broadcaster most famous for his play-by-play calls for Hockey Night in Canada. He was the son of W. A. Hewitt, and the father of Bill Hewitt.
CJCL – branded Sportsnet 590 The Fan – is a Canadian sports radio station in Toronto, Ontario. Owned and operated by Rogers Media since 2002, CJCL's studios are located at the Rogers Building at Bloor and Jarvis in downtown Toronto, while its transmitters are located near Grimsby atop the Niagara Escarpment. Programming on the station includes local sports talk radio shows during the day; CBS Sports Radio overnight; and live broadcasts of Toronto Blue Jays baseball, Toronto Raptors basketball, Toronto Maple Leafs hockey, Toronto FC soccer, Buffalo Bisons baseball and Buffalo Bills football.
CKO was a Canadian radio news network which operated from 1977 to 1989. The CKO call sign was shared by twelve network-owned stations, as listed below.
CHUM, broadcasting at 1050 kHz, is a Canadian radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned and operated by Bell Media. CHUM's studios are co-located with TSN at 9 Channel Nine Court in the Agincourt neighbourhood of Scarborough, with its transmitter array located in the Clarkson neighbourhood of Mississauga. TSN 1050 is simulcast on Bell TV satellite channel 989.
CFMJ is a news talk AM radio station, licensed to Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. It is owned by Corus Entertainment with studios and offices in the Corus Quay Building at 25 Dockside Drive in Toronto. The station airs a news talk radio format targeted to the Greater Toronto Area.
CFMB is a multilingual Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, owned by Evanov Radio Group. It broadcasts with a power of 50,000 watts full-time as a class B station, using a directional antenna with different patterns day and night. Its transmitter is located near Saint-Mathieu, while its studios are located on Papineau Avenue, Montreal.
Foster William Alfred "Bill" Hewitt was a Canadian radio and television sportscaster. He was the son of hockey broadcaster Foster Hewitt and the grandson of Toronto Star sports journalist W. A. Hewitt.
CHKT is a Canadian radio station, airing at 1430 AM in Toronto, Ontario. The station, owned by the Fairchild Radio service, airs Chinese language programming. CHKT's studios are located on East Beaver Creek Road in Richmond Hill, while its transmitters are located on the Toronto Islands.
WXNT is a commercial AM radio station in Indianapolis, Indiana. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and carries an all-sports radio format, as an affiliate of the CBS Sports Radio Network. WXNT airs a local Indianapolis-centered sports talk show in the afternoon with Kent Sterling. The remainder of the schedule is CBS Sports Radio shows and live sporting events.
CFTO-DT, virtual channel 9, is the flagship station of the CTV Television Network, licensed to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc., as part of a twinstick with Barrie-based CTV 2 owned-and-operated station CKVR-DT, channel 3 ; it is also sister to 24-hour regional news channel CP24. CFTO-DT's studios are located at 9 Channel Nine Court in Agincourt, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in Downtown Toronto.
Robert Alan "Bob" McCown is an American-Canadian radio personality. He is best known as the long-time host of the Canadian sports talk show Prime Time Sports from its inception on October 2, 1989 to June 21, 2019.
CFCA was the first regularly broadcasting licensed radio station in Toronto and was one of the first in Canada. Owned by the Toronto Daily Star it is notable for hosting the first live play-by-play ice hockey broadcast on February 8, 1923. The station went on the air in June 1922 and closed permanently in 1933.
KZQZ was a commercial radio station that was licensed to serve St. Louis, Missouri at 1430 AM, and broadcast from 1922 to 2020. As WEB it was one of the first radio stations to have been established and licensed in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area, and used the callsign WIL for most of 1925 to 2008. The Federal Communications Commission revoked the license for the station and its three co-owned stations in March 2020 after discovering that a convicted felon had effective control of the stations in their last years; despite the revocation, KZQZ and KQQZ continued to broadcast without a valid license into April 2020.
CJBK is a radio station, broadcasting in London, Ontario, Canada at 1290 kHz. The station, owned by Bell Media, has an antenna system input power of 10,000 watts, as a class B station. The station airs a news, talk and sports format. It broadcasts the Western Ontario Mustangs college football team, serving as its flagship station. As of 2016, it also broadcasts Toronto Maple Leaf games.
CHTT-FM is a Canadian radio station in Victoria, British Columbia, which airs at 103.1 FM. The station, owned by Rogers Communications, airs an Adult hits format, branded as Jack 103.1.
WHP – branded NewsRadio WHP 580 – is a commercial talk radio station licensed to serve Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., the station's broadcast area covers the Harrisburg-Carlisle-Lebanon region. The station's transmitter is located in East Pennsboro Township near Enola, Pennsylvania. WHP's signal is non-directional during daytime hours and is directed southeastward toward Harrisburg and Lancaster at night.
KERI is a commercial AM radio station in Bakersfield, California. The station is owned by Robert and Luanne Wilkins, through licensee Bobbi Wilkins Radio Network Broadcasting Ltd. It airs a religious radio format. Most hours are brokered programming, where national and local religious leaders pay for a segment of time, for preaching or instruction, and where they may appeal to listeners for donations. Hosts include Charles Stanley, Jim Daly, John MacArthur, David Jeremiah and Jay Sekulow.
Paul Romanuk is a Toronto sportscaster and writer. He was born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
The National Hockey League (NHL)'s Toronto Maple Leafs has been the point of subject for a number of media in Canadian popular culture, including artworks, books, novels, and songs.