A haircare collection from the brand Krastase that targets dandruff and scalp flakes. CFRA's Greg Hbert passed away in December after a long battle with cancer. To help us improve GOV.UK, wed like to know more about your visit today. https://t.co/CqSdIi33td. Ad: CFRA 5,000 Watts Day and Night - The BIG station in OttawaTops in newssportsfeatures. Located in Ottawas south end, the new complex had 23,000 square feet of space. CFRAsaid it wouldrelease information about funeral arrangements once they'remade. In addition to CTV and its television stations, Bell Media now also operated 29 specialty channels, 33 radio stations, Dome Productions, a mobile broadcast facilities provider, and dozens of high-traffic news, sports and entertainment websites, including the Sympatico.ca portal. The CBC Board recommended CFRA be permitted to operate an experimental synchronous booster station at Almonte. Longtime morning man Ken Grant retired and station manager Steve Madely took over the AM Drive program. In a messageposted the day before her daughterdied, Erin Davis shared with fans what it meant to her to become a mother. On July 12 it was announced that Bell Globemedia would pay C$1.7 billion for CHUM Ltd., in a deal that would see the company become part of the BCE-owned media conglomerate, subject to CRTC approval. On Saturday, just before 5 p.m., officers were called to the area of Clearview Heights and Trethewey Drive, west of . Fred Ennis, a former CFRA broadcaster, Ottawa journalist, and politician, has died. Frank Ryan was president of the company and CFRA's manager. [5], With his 1967 Save The Centennial Flame Campaign, a month of relentless broadcasts, and over three-thousand petitions from listeners, the iconic Centennial Flame remains and continues to shine on Parliament Hill. John Brenner was morning newscaster. Sportscaster Ernie Calcutt, 51, died of a massive stroke. Former Ottawa radio host Sandy Sharkey remembers lining up at her junior high school sock hops to have Elliot sign her CFRA Top 40 countdown lists. There is a large newsroom located between the main CFRA and CFMO studios. Bob Derro joined CFRA from Sudbury's CJMX-FM. The existing site was located on land which was intended to be used for the proposed Highway 416 extension. Kielty helped launch CFRA in 1947 and was an on-air personality. CFRA is a news/talk formatted radio station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, owned by Bell Media. With executive producer Warren Cosford, Elliot initiated People Helping People on Windsor's CKLW in 1995, later syndicating it to Toronto's Talk 640. https://t.co/8Fi9MvIk6Z, Former broadcaster and councillor Pierre Bourque. CHUM Limited purchased CFRA and CFMO. You are now being redirected to the BCE.ca website (Bell Canada Enterprises), where you can view our Accessibility plan, and submit your feedback using our Accessibility webform. 4:00 - Art Bell. Celebration of life will be announced soon. 6:00 - Steve Madely. "I'll be in touch when I can. Former CFRA host Rick Gibbons tweeted the news Sunday morning, saying Bourque had suffered an apparent heart attack Saturday. His wife's cancer status played a big role in his leaving QVC. Marie. Brad Ronald was appointed general sales manager, Bell Media Radio Ottawa. The show featured Madely's top five stories of the day which are reiterated over the show, a 10-minute-long listener call-in session at 6:40, health headlines at 6:55, and weird and wacky stories at 7:55. 3:00 - Comedy/Drama Classics. Pierre was an entrepreneur, always pushing himself to try something different, to work on something new. [7][17][18] On 21 November 2017, he was honoured in the House of Commons of Canada by the Honourable Pierre Poilievre. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. / The Voice of the valley. (613) 562-6671, Contact our Newsroom [6] Recent guests of the brand new online show include former CFRA hosts Nick Vandergragt of Nick At Night and John Robson of Thinking Allowed. It lobbied and petitioned Members of Parliament, while he appeared before parliamentary and senate committees tasked with the process of making policy and enacting new gun law legislation in Canada. The former Halifax alderman, award-winning broadcaster - including the Ted Rogers Sr/Velma Rogers award - and civil servant, had such stops in his on-air career as CFRA Ottawa, CHUM Toronto, CKGM Montreal and CJCH Halifax. Rogers Communications announced on June 25th that a deal had been reached for them to buy these stations from CTV, subject to CRTC approval. And CFRA Nation, you have done your duty, and I hope and pray that you'll continue to do so. 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[7], In 1975, after the school shooting that occurred at the St. Pius X High School in Ottawa, Green and thousands of his supporters joined his Fire Arms Safety Association. Previously ranked in 5 th position on Newsmax's 50 most influential radio talks hosts, Bill Carroll began his media career immediately after completing his high school in 1980. [5] In order to encourage Quebecers to vote "No" in the 1995 Quebec Independence referendum, he promoted and helped organize a political Unity Rally which was held in Place du Canada in Montreal Quebec. Steve Madely was now hosting a new 3-hour morning talk show, Pamela Kern was host of a new afternoon self-help program, and Sports at Six expanded to an hour-long live call-in show hosted by Gord Wilson. Vintage Pierre. Ottawa news@cfra.com. ON In renewing CFRA's licence, the CRTC advised further discussion to resolve the issue of a power increase for CFCF 600 in Montreal, which must give technical protection to CFRA 580. Currently, he works on CFRA located in Ottawa, Canada as the host of The Morning Rush with Bill Carroll since joining back on March 7, 2016. Family say it was an apparent heart attack. The daughter of a Toronto radio personality well known in York Region, has died at age 24. He was 62. On August 31, the two companies announced that BGM had been successful in its offer to acquire approximately 6.7 million common shares and approximately 19.2 million non-voting Class B shares of CHUM. He was followed in mid-days by talk show host Lowell Green. CFRA radio anchor Lauren Davis passed away in her sleep Sunday night. Different antenna patterns were used for day and night operation. The name change took place on March 22. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. CFRA switched to an All Oldies music format. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, to Canadian parents, and immigrated to Canada. You have rejected additional cookies. It used to air on the radio station CFRA in Ottawa, Ontario. After Ryan's death in 1965, . [8] In 2006, he was awarded the LIfetime Achievement Award from the Radio and Television News Director Association. Al Pascal was on-air. We use some essential cookies to make this website work. "It's a great honour to be recognized by your peers and it's . He developed pneumonia and was put in a medically induced coma before dying on January 11, 2019.[3][4][5]. he later became the host of a talk show for people recovering from addictions on Toronto radio. Wed like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services. Condolences and fond reminiscences marked the news that former CFRA host Bev McRae had died. The show was terminated by CFRA in February 2016. 1:00 - Michael Harris Live (Friday: Market Monitor with Walter Traversy). He would continue to be based in Ottawa. [14] He has also been awarded the Golden Ribbon Award For Outstanding Community Service by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. Given that the technical change would result in a relatively modest increase in listenership and that it applied solely to night-time operating hours, the Commission considered that the proposed power increase would not generate significant incremental revenues for the station and would therefore not have any undue impact on existing stations in the market. He also worked in Los Angeles at a KFI radio station. College Ward councillor Rick Chiarelli tweeted that a celebration of life for Ennis will be held in the coming days. 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Legendary Ottawa radio broadcaster Gord Atkinson has died at the age of 94. Kielty died May 5 at the age of 86. Late Night Counsell or LNC is a late night conservative talk show hosted by Rev. From 2001 until December 2016, he hosted People Helping People, Saturday nights from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. EST on CFRB Toronto and CJAD Montreal, a phone-in show dedicated to addictions and addiction recovery. Allan Waters, the founder of CHUM Limited passed away on December 3 at the age of 84. Carroll is the proactive and entertaining host of CFRA's The Morning Rush with Bill Carro ll. On November 13, CFRA was granted a licence to operate transitional digital radio undertakings (DRU) to serve Ottawa. Steve Madely was hosting the morning show and Lowell Green did the mid-day talk show. Ownership of CFRA Limited: Frank Ryan 99.8%, Kathleen Ryan 0.1% and D. L. Martin 0.1%. The licence was granted for technical experimentation purposes for one year only. This page is not available in other languages. She and husband Phil Shirakawa welcomed the birth of son Colin last. Ennis passed away in his sleep Sunday. He would never get a licence. CFRA marked 50 years on the air on May 3. Celebrations continued throughout the day as former CFRA announcers and local personalities like Ken Grant, Les Lye, Terry Kielty and Max Keeping joined Lowell Green and Mark Sutcliffe. At a staff meeting, general manager Richard Gray announced that Al Smith (PD for Majic 100 and 939 BOB FM) would move to operations manager for all four stations, with "JR" John Rodenburg (TEAM 1200 morning co-host) assuming sports director duties, and CFRA news director Steve Winogron looking after CFRA's on air sound. He began his broadcast career at CFRA after the end of the Second World War. Alison Sandor joined CFRA in early September. The shares were to be placed in the hands of an independent trustee pursuant to a voting trust agreement approved by the CRTC. 2023 National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. [1] In June, CFRA adopted a News and Talk format which included a fair amount of sports programming. He tells Vassy the Iordaches, a young family of four, were set to be deported from Canada. I have worked for ten years in news radio in a wide variety of positions and have written on a freelance basis as well. CFRA received a partial feed from Rogers but received ABC News independently of Rogers. Reports elsewhere have suggested that CFRA-AM and FM signed on at the same time, but CFRA was not issued an FM licence until later in the year. Long-time CFRA talkshow host Lowell Green, retired in January. CFRAs sports director since day one Tom Foley was killed in a car accident. The station opening was held at the Ottawa Auditorium, 413 OConnor Street, at Catherine. On the same date the CFRA Top 30 chart was retired. Newsman Hal Anthony retired. Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. Bell Media, the managing partner holding 99.99% of the voting interest in the general partnership, is wholly owned by Bell Canada and controlled by BCE. While many other electronic media shut down, Elliot was on air during the Great Blackout of 2003, providing information and reassurance to untold numbers of listeners in Southern Ontario. He continued contributing to the station's weekly midday program News and Views with Rob Snow until a Bell Media restructuring in mid-November 2019. George Gordon, who had been morning anchor at News1130 Vancouver, moved to the first radio station he'd ever heard in his life: CFRA. "He. Elliot also worked as a counsellor with the Salvation Army Harbour Light Treatment Centre, and was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. [21], The following is a list of works authored by Lowell Green. This was its highest cumulative audience figure to date. Late Night Counsell discusses News, Politics, Religion and Opinion. He built CFRA into a powerhouse in the 1960s, increasing the station's circulation from 100,000 to 600,000. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. 10:00 - Late Night Counsell with John Counsell. CFRA and CFMO-FM moved to new studios and offices on the second floor of a two storey, 20,000 square foot structure, located immediately behind the existing facility. 613-521-1000, Reception (9am-6pm) At the end of the show, a winner is picked from the bucket to win a prize package. CFRA/CFMO-FM appointments: Don Holtby, vice-president and general manager, replacing Terry Kielty who became vice-president of broadcast services of the stations; Larry Kelly to general sales manager, and Jack Derouin to retail sales manager. Prior to joining CFRA, Bill worked in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as a radio host for Talk Radio AM640 every weekday. He succeeded the late Ernie Calcutt. Three transmitters were used: one was located at the CBC's site at Camp Fortune, Quebec. He suffered from heart trouble in his last years and was hospitalized at the end of 2018 after suffering two heart attacks. Following his death, the company was taken over by his wife and business partner, Kathleen Ryan.John Larsen joined CFRA on March 15 as overnight announcer. For many years he worked as Ernie Calcutt's side kick doing the color commentary for Rough Rider broadcasts. The AM station would broadcast on a frequency of 560 kHz and have a power of 1,000 watts. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. Mark Elliot (December 24, 1953 January 11, 2019)[1] was the professional name of Nils Fleming Johanson, a former late night talk radio host on radio station CFRB 1010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and an addictions counsellor in private practice. John Counsell. He ended up at CFGO. I currently host CFRA Live on News Talk 580 CFRA on Saturdays and Sundays from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. | Learn more about Andrew Pinsent's work experience, education, connections & more by visiting their profile on LinkedIn He was the host of the station's weekday morning show Madely in the Morning, weekdays from 6am to 9am.The show featured Madely's top five stories of the day which are reiterated over the show, a 10-minute-long listener call-in session at 6:40 . Every LIVE show always welcomes callers to discuss the topic, talk with guests or bring up their own topic. Immigration lawyer Peter Ivanyi represented one of the two families who died trying to cross into the United States from the St. Lawrence River last week. On the air: Ken Grant (5-9), Bill Drake (9-noon), News (12:00-12:35), Lowell Green (talk - 12:35-2:30), Al Dubois (2:30-4:00), Shelley Emmond (4-7), Mark elliot (7-11) and Dan Ferguson (11-5). On Saturday former CTV employee and host of Farmgate Kevin Hursh was inducted into the Saskatchewan Agriculture Hall of Fame. We have enabled email notificationsyou will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Frank Ryan was president of CFRA Broadcasting Ltd. Alden Diehl, 68, died October 27. On September 26, the CRTC approved an application by Bell Media Inc. and 7550413 Canada Inc., partners in a general partnership carrying on business as Bell Media Ottawa Radio Partnership, to modify the technical parameters for CFRA by increasing its night-time power from 10,000 to 30,000 watts and by modifying its antenna pattern, resulting in changes to its authorized contours. At the new facility, CFMO has a master control room, two production control rooms, one production studio and one booth. (Photo courtesy of Peter Atkinson) Gord Atkinson began his radio career in Toronto in 1948 before move to Ottawa's CFRA . She and husbandPhil Shirakawawelcomed the birth of sonColinlast October. Ryan owned a 150 acre farm and told the Board of Broadcast Governors that the TV station would be unique in that it would have the whole farm for use in outdoor agricultural telecasting. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. He would be the station's very popular morning man for many years to come. Late Night Counsell or LNC is a late night conservative talk show hosted by Rev. [4][5] For example, Uncle John from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, had co-hosted a segment of Freebie Fridays. The other two transmitters were located in Ottawa, one at the CBC's building on Lanark Avenue and the other at the Time MCI Las Brisas building. Broadcaster Gord Atkinson has died at age 24 CTV employee and host of a talk show people. 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