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  1. CFTR (680 AM, 680 News) is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario, serving the Greater Toronto Area. Owned by Rogers Media, the station became Canada's first solo station to broadcast an all-news radio format, following in the footsteps of the CKO National All News radio network, a format that has since been replicated in major markets across the country. The CFTR studios are located at the Rogers Building at Bloor and Jarvis Streets in downtown Toronto, while the station transmitter is located on the southern edge of Lake Ontario at Oakes and Winston Road (near the QEW and Casablanca Road) in nearby Grimsby.
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  3. While CFTR broadcasts at the maximum power for Canadian AM stations, 50,000 watts, it must use a complicated directional antenna system to avoid interfering with other stations on 680 AM. In addition to a standard analog transmission, CFTR is simulcast on the second HD digital subchannel of CKIS-FM, and is available online. 680 News is simulcast on Bell Satellite TV satellite channel 958.
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  5. The station launched on August 8, 1962. Its original frequency was 1540 kHz, using the call letters CHFI, simulcasting the beautiful music of sister station CHFI-FM, one of Canada's first FM radio stations. Because 1540 is a clear-channel frequency assigned to stations in the United States and the Bahamas, CHFI was authorized to broadcast only during the daytime. In 1963, it sought to pay CHLO in St. Thomas, Ontario to move from 680 to another frequency, to free up 680 for CHFI's use. No deal was finalized, but, by 1966, the stations reached an agreement to share 680, and CHFI moved to 24-hour operation at that frequency.
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  7. In 1971, so as to distinguish itself from CHFI-FM, the station changed its call letters to CFTR; the "TR" being a tribute to Ted Rogers, Sr., radio pioneer and father of controlling shareholder Ted Rogers.
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  9. In 1972, it abandoned the beautiful music simulcast of CHFI and adopted a Top 40 format. For many years, it was the primary competition to Toronto's original Top 40 station, CHUM.
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  11. In 1973, programmer Chuck Camroux upped the ante in the Toronto radio "Rock and Roll Wars" by tweaking CFTR's notoriously bad signal, adding some reverb, and hiring new morning man Jim Brady to rival CHUM's Jay Nelson. Both stations hovered near one million listeners per week. Although Brady finally topped Nelson in the ratings in 1979, over-all, CFTR didn't surpass CHUM in the Toronto BBM ratings until 1984. Once CFTR gained ratings supremacy, CHUM dropped Top 40 in favour of an adult contemporary music format in 1986.
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  13. CFTR also hired John Records Landecker from WLS in Chicago in 1981. Landecker spent two years at the station before returning to Chicago to work at WLUP.
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  15. Through the 1980s and 1990s, music listeners switched to FM, prompting AM stations like CFTR to find non-music formats. On June 1, 1993, at 10 a.m., CFTR announced it would be discontinuing the Top 40 format, and began broadcasting a countdown of "the top 500 songs of the (then) past 25 years" titled "The CFTR Story." At 6 a.m. on June 7, after playing Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" (which was the #1 song in the countdown) and Starship's "We Built This City" (which also ended CHUM's Top 40 era in 1986), CFTR adopted its present all-news format. It was the first all-news radio station in Canada since the end of the former CKO network in 1989. With the Toronto station's success, Rogers later expanded the format to stations in Vancouver (CKWX) in 1996, Calgary (CFFR) in 2006, and Ottawa (CIWW) in 2010.
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  17. In addition to these stations, Rogers owns news-talk stations in Kitchener (CKGL), Halifax (CJNI-FM), Saint John (CHNI-FM), and Moncton (CKNI-FM). All of these are branded similarly to the company's all-news stations, and use a similar all-news wheel during morning and afternoon drive.
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  19. The station offers listeners a "weather guarantee" jackpot, which is drawn from a pool of listeners who enter the contest.
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  21. 680 News is Toronto's only all news radio service providing immediate and essential information to more than 1.3 million listeners each week. With the largest radio newsroom in the country staffed by a team of award-winning journalists, 680 News delivers the information you need, when you need it. News, traffic, weather and business information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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  23. 680 News is all news, all the time. No waiting through talk shows, music marathons or baseball games. The next newscast begins the minute you tune in. No matter what type of information you're after, 680 News has a spot on the clock you can rely on.
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  25. #1 With News
  26. Only 680 News delivers news as it happens...24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  27. 680 News has Canada's largest radio newsroom, staffed by seasoned, award-winning news professionals.
  28. You get news when you need it, from 680 News.
  29. 680 News provides Toronto's most complete local, national and international news coverage.
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  31. #1 With Sports
  32. In-depth reports at :15 and :45 past the hour...24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  33. We get our sports from Toronto's #1 sports station, Sportsnet 590 The Fan.
  34. All the latest local scores, four times an hour.
  35. The latest trades, drafts and team management changes.
  36. Jays, Leafs, Raptors and Argos updates.
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  38. #1 With Traffic and Weather
  39. Up-to-the-minute traffic and weather together on the ones...at :01, :11, :21, :31, :41 and :51 past the hour...24 hours day, 7 days a week.
  40. Toronto's most experienced traffic reporters.
  41. More airborne traffic than any other radio station in the city.
  42. Toronto's most experienced weather team with three full time meteorologists.
  43. The only station with a Weather Guarantee.
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  45. #1 With Business News
  46. Toronto's most frequent business reports at :26 and :56 past the hour... 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  47. Market Minutes at :13 and :43 during trading hours.
  48. Breaking news from the world's major stock markets including Toronto, New York, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
  49. When the markets are open, 680 News is there live with real time quotes.
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  51. Hourly clock:
  52. :00 Headlines
  53. :01 Traffic and Weather
  54. :03 News
  55. :10 Commercial
  56. :11 Traffic and Weather
  57. :13 News / Market Minute (During trading hours only)
  58. :14 Commercial
  59. :15 Headlines
  60. :15.30 Sports
  61. :17.30 Commercial
  62. :18 News
  63. :20 Commercial
  64. :21 Traffic and Weather
  65. :23 Commercial
  66. :24 News
  67. :25 Commercial
  68. :26 Business
  69. :28 Commercial
  70. :29 Traveller's Weather
  71. :30 Headlines
  72. :31 Traffic and Weather
  73. :33 News
  74. :40 Commercial
  75. :41 Traffic and Weather
  76. :43 News / Market Minute (During trading hours only)
  77. :44 Commercial
  78. :45 Headlines
  79. :45.30 Sports
  80. :47.30 Commercial
  81. :48 News
  82. :50 Commercial
  83. :51 Traffic and Weather
  84. :53 Commercial
  85. :54 News
  86. :55 Commercial
  87. :56 Business
  88. :58 Commercial
  89. :59 Regional Conditions
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