Quebec City: CHRC to close down Sunday

[azumanga]

It was announced a couple of weeks ago, but not brought to my attention until tonight -- CHRC 800 in Quebec City will cease operations Sunday 9/30 at 12 Midnight. The station is the last remaining AM station in Quebec City:

http://blog.fagstein.com/2012/09/14/chrc-shutdown/

 

[mjlarochelle]

That means there will be no Canadian AM radio stations between Montreal and Fredericton after tonight.

 

[cd637299]

That makes two 50 kW fulltime AM's shut off in a year, WDCD 1540 Albany being the other.

cd

 

[Tincap]

Yet another historic station gone.

Having been through the Quebec City area, a fair bit, I was curious to find this station sharing the same frequency as Montreal's CJAD. The CJAD signal may now actually get into QC.

~BG

 

[mjlarochelle]

Yet another historic station gone.

Having been through the Quebec City area, a fair bit, I was curious to find this station sharing the same frequency as Montreal's CJAD. The CJAD signal may now actually get into QC.

~BG

Ironic that the demise of a Francophone station will likely result in the gain of an Anglophone signal in Quebec City.

 

[cd637299]

Yet another historic station gone.

Having been through the Quebec City area, a fair bit, I was curious to find this station sharing the same frequency as Montreal's CJAD. The CJAD signal may now actually get into QC.

~BG

Ironic that the demise of a Francophone station will likely result in the gain of an Anglophone signal in Quebec City.

Maybe not, in the case of CJAD. I've seen a map of the 800 kHz night patterns.....in Canada it's a mess, Ontario to the east!

cd

 

[Tincap]

Yet another historic station gone.

Having been through the Quebec City area, a fair bit, I was curious to find this station sharing the same frequency as Montreal's CJAD. The CJAD signal may now actually get into QC.

~BG

Ironic that the demise of a Francophone station will likely result in the gain of an Anglophone signal in Quebec City.

Maybe not, in the case of CJAD. I've seen a map of the 800 kHz night patterns.....in Canada it's a mess, Ontario to the east!

cd

Well, I can testify that in the evening/night, it certainly is a mess here! I can barely get CJAD, CKLW or (Belleville ON) CJBQ. During the daytime however, CJAD throws a strong signal my way (and especially into Ottawa), perhaps QC's anglos will benefit during the daytime hours? Only one way to find out...(I do love Quebec City ).

~BG

 

[mimo]

I never got a chance to hear them. I did try at night despite knowing it was a futile effort and haven't made it to Quebec City yet. There are people interested in the frequency though, including Bell and Tietolman's group. Hopefully they'll be able to get it and get AM going again. QC is a city of one million. Eventually the FM will fill up so much (if it hasn't already) and they'll have to go back to AM for new stations.

 

[e-dawg]

Now CHRC is gone, I wonder if CJAD can increase their power to 50kw at night and change their directional patterns towards east instead of north/south.

 

[cd637299]

Now CHRC is gone, I wonder if CJAD can increase their power to 50kw at night and change their directional patterns towards east instead of north/south.

VOWR wants to talk to you....

cd

 

[EJ204]

The bad thing is, as AM stations got turned off in Quebec, the Talk format has also diminished in French.

There had been 730 CKAC Montreal, which was talk around the clock, mostly simulcast on AM stations in Ottawa, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres and other large French speaking cities.

Then as AM stations moved to FM, they didn't keep their Talk formats. CKAC is now Traffic. CHMP 98.5 has replaced CKAC as Montreal's French Talk station but only weekdays. It plays music on weekends. I'm not sure if they run Talk overnight or also play music then as well. They're certainly not the French equivalent of 800 CJAD Montreal, which has an extensive list of weekend talk shows.

At least in the U.S., when the Talk format moves to FM, it stays Talk 24/7.