AM 730

[4dude]

They play mostly ENGLISH MUSIC when i can get them @ night,i just dont know who they are,does anyone?

It is not the 730 in manitoba (Which i thought it was) and the other 730s i found listed in canada (5) on .73 it cant possibly be (500 watts,etc)

I hear the news station in Ottawa but this station comes in over the top and has french ads,etc... (The few french songs they play ARE QUITE AWESOME!!)

There is a 50k one but thats on the west coast,i dont think i would hear them (Vancouver)

Any info?

 

[w9wi]

They play mostly ENGLISH MUSIC when i can get them @ night,i just dont know who they are,does anyone?
It is not the 730 in manitoba (Which i thought it was) and the other 730s i found listed in canada (5) on .73 it cant possibly be (500 watts,etc)
I hear the news station in Ottawa but this station comes in over the top and has french ads,etc... (The few french songs they play ARE QUITE AWESOME!!)
There is a 50k one but thats on the west coast,i dont think i would hear them (Vancouver)

On 730?

There are three stations in Canada on 730. CKAC Montreal is French-language talk. CKDM (the one in Manitoba) is a kind of general-service station in English. And CHMJ (Vancouver) is English talk. I think the 500-watt station you found has been defunct for about 15 years. (CHYR or CHIR in Ontario?) Any French on 730 is almost certainly CKAC.

(The FCC listings of Canadian stations are not very accurate. Canada is rather slow to "un-notify" the FCC when their AM stations go permanently defunct. Rest assured the FCC isn't very good about doing it in the other direction either. Most online station listings use the FCC data as a source, so they aren't very accurate either.)

I'm not sure what you mean by "the news station in Ottawa". The only 730 station in Canada I know of with an English spoken-word format is Vancouver. There's nothing anywhere near 730 in Ottawa. (and it would never work out with CKAC cranking out 50,000 watts only what, 150km? away.)

Don't rule out the possibility the English outlet is in the U.S.. Which one you might hear depends on where you are. I'm near Nashville and occasionally hear the 730 station from Dallas with soul oldies.

 

[Dan Sys]

CHMJ 730 Vancouver is now 24 hour traffic (All Traffic All The Time), they dropped the Talk format a few years ago:
http://www.am730traffic.com/

 

[4dude]

I discovered the music station i was listening to only plays music from MIDNIGHT TO 5AM then they go back to news,etc in french.....

I still dont know who they are ;D

Im hearing "Im about to lose control and i think i like it" (That song in the movie 'VACATION') on it right now...

They play an occasional french song also and THEY ARE QUITE GOOD!! (The songs)

 

[w9wi]

I discovered the music station i was listening to only plays music from MIDNIGHT TO 5AM then they go back to news,etc in french.....

I still dont know who they are ;D

A French station on 730 is almost CERTAINLY CKAC Montreal.

 

[Dan Sys]

Perhaps CKAC simulcasts sister station CKOI 96.9 during the AN show?

 

[fybush]

Perhaps CKAC simulcasts sister station CKOI 96.9 during the AN show?

Close...but wrong FM. It's simulcasting CHMP 98.5 from midnight to 5:30 AM:

Bienvenue à tous les auditeurs de Bonjour la nuit animé par Jacques Fabi et André Pelletier de minuit à 5h30 sur les ondes du 98,5 FM et CKAC 730 AM.

That's from a facebook page for "Bonjour la nuit" ("Hello, night") - "Welcome to all the listeners to Bonjour la nuit, hosted by Jacques Fabi and Andre Pelletier from midnight - 5:30 AM on 98.5 FM and CKAC 730 AM."

Update - On further research, it looks as though "Bonjour la nuit" is defunct, and that CHMP and CKAC are now carrying Corus' province-wide "Souvenirs Garantis" ("Memories Guaranteed") classic hits/oldies format overnight. It's apparently running at least part-time on CINF 690 as well.

 

[Dan Sys]

Thanks for clarifying that Scott. Pretty sad state of affairs when 3 stations in Canada's 2nd largest market are all running the same simulcast during the AN show.

 

[4dude]

Its good they arte airing music though instead of blasted talk!!

Thanx for clearing it up!

 

[Montreal radio listener]

Perhaps CKAC simulcasts sister station CKOI 96.9 during the AN show?

Close...but wrong FM. It's simulcasting CHMP 98.5 from midnight to 5:30 AM:

Bienvenue à tous les auditeurs de Bonjour la nuit animé par Jacques Fabi et André Pelletier de minuit à 5h30 sur les ondes du 98,5 FM et CKAC 730 AM.

That's from a facebook page for "Bonjour la nuit" ("Hello, night") - "Welcome to all the listeners to Bonjour la nuit, hosted by Jacques Fabi and Andre Pelletier from midnight - 5:30 AM on 98.5 FM and CKAC 730 AM."

Update - On further research, it looks as though "Bonjour la nuit" is defunct, and that CHMP and CKAC are now carrying Corus' province-wide "Souvenirs Garantis" ("Memories Guaranteed") classic hits/oldies format overnight. It's apparently running at least part-time on CINF 690 as well.

The music heard at night on CKAC 730, CINF 690 and CHMP-FM 98.5 comes directly from CFOM-FM 102.9 in Quebec City. All three Montreal stations use the CFOM-FM feed from midnight to 4 a.m. (5 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings).

There is a host (Marie-France Lambert) on CFOM-FM for the first hour, she is not normally heard on the Montreal stations but once in a while they make a mistake and we can hear her.

I would not describe the format as "classic hits/oldies" as most of the music is from the 1980s and 1990s. There are a few 1970s songs but not that many. If you are extremely lucky you can occasionally hear one or two Beatles songs from 1969.

Unfortunately the song selection tends to be extremely repetitive, especially when they are in a BBM ratings period in Quebec City. The other night (Thursday to Friday morning) they even played two songs twice in the same night ("Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson and "Heart of Glass" by Blondie), once around 2 a.m. and then again around 3:30 a.m. ...

The old all-night talk show hosted by Jacques Fabi and André Pelletier actually originated from CKAC 730 (i.e. it was done in the CKAC studio and callers had to use the CKAC phone numbers), even after that station adopted its all-sports format in April 2007. It was simulcasted on CHMP-FM 98.5 and also on CINF 690. That program was cancelled in March 2009.

 

[Blackroc]

It comes in pretty well just south of Boston. Sounds like a dance-music format.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

It comes in pretty well just south of Boston. Sounds like a dance-music format.

On AM? In 2009? I'm finding that weird!

 

[mimo]

It's regular pop music from the past 20 years....and my head almost exploded when i read 730 in Ottawa. CKAC is a decnt signal here 24 hours a day, especially in the east end...but it's the 4th strongest of the Montreal AMs..behind CINF 690, CJAD 800, CKGM 990 and CINW 940 in that order of strength. CINF might as well be a local station it's so clear.