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AM 790 CIGM Sudbury (CKSO's former frequency) Now OFF

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Lee_T

October 1, 2009

Yet, another Canadian high powered AM radio station silenced.

Just thought I would like to let everyone know that on September 30, 2009 at about 5:00 pm EDT, AM 790 CIGM in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (formerly owned by Rogers Radio) has turned off their 50,000 watt AM 790 transmitter forever ending more than 70 years of AM radio broadcasting in Sudbury and being the last AM radio outlet in the city. It's too bad Rogers didn't keep the AM 790 frequency and use it as a news/talk/sports station something like "680 News" in Toronto.

AM 790 was originally used by CKSO from the 1930s although began at AM 780, until it moved to 790 in 1941. The CKSO callsign was dropped in 1990 and changed to CIGM.

Newcap Radio received approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to aquire the Rogers station, AM 790 CIGM in late 2008 and to convert to the FM dial at 93.5 MHz. In August 2009, Newcap began transmitter testing at 93.5 FM on the 17th with classic rock music, launched a chinese music stunt format on the 20th and offically launching a CHR/Top 40 format as "Hot 93.5" on August 25th at 12:00 noon EDT. http://www.hot935.ca

The station may change CIGM's callsign to reflect the stations new format.

Last evening into October 1st, I had received some AM radio stations on 790 that were once buried beneath CIGM here in Sudbury:
WAEB - Allentown, PA
WSLV - Wellsville, NY
WMC - Memphis, TN
Radio Reloj - Pinar Del Rio, Cuba
and a few others.

Historic information on AM 790 Sudbury:
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIGM-FM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJRQ-FM (as CKSO)

Canadian Communications Foundation:

CJRQ:
http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/...ries/radio/histories.php?id=738&historyID=312

CIGM:
http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/...ories/radio/histories.php?id=287&historyID=93

Websites still active as of October 1, 2009:

790 CIGM's former website: http://www.790cigm.com/
Kung Pao 93.5: http://www.kungpaoradio935.com/ (Chinese music stunt format which ran from August 20 - August 25, 2009)
 
Receiving the once buried signals for the first time, must've been kinda neat, but still... Everytime we lose an AM signal, it's like losing a little piece of history, a connection to our past.

~BG
 
A few years ago, there was a problem with CIGM's night pattern and the station was clearly audible to the southeast. I'm located on Long Island in New York, and when we lost our last country station a few years ago, I used to tune into CIGM. The station used AM Stereo which was an added bonus. The Audio was fantastic. Just this summer I caught CIGM still in AM Stereo on a DX. Still sounded good. I'm sad to hear they've turned out the lights at CIGM AM 790.

Ted Russell
 
Ted Russell said:
I'm sad to hear they've turned out the lights at CIGM AM 790.
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Turned out the lights AND changed the format at their new FM home on the dial.
 
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