CFTR (AM)
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| City | Toronto, Ontario |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Toronto Area |
| Branding | 680 NEWS |
| Slogan |
"#1 for Breaking News, Traffic and Weather. This is 680News Toronto." (top of the hour) "#1 for news in Toronto. This is 680News." (bottom of the hour) |
| Frequency | 680 kHz (AM) |
| First air date | August 8, 1962 |
| Format | All-news |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 380 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°12′51″N 79°36′31″W / 43.21417°N 79.60861°W |
| Callsign meaning | Canada's First Ted Rogers |
| Former callsigns | CHFI (AM) |
| Former frequencies | 1540 AM |
| Affiliations |
Canadian Press ABC Radio News Bloomberg Radio |
| Owner |
Rogers Media (Rogers Media Inc.) |
| Sister stations |
Radio: CHFI-FM, CJCL, CKIS-FM TV: CFMT-TV, CITY-TV, CJMT-TV |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 680NEWS.com |
CFTR (680 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station serving the Greater Toronto Area. Owned by Rogers Media, it broadcasts an all-news radio format branded as 680 NEWS.
CFTR's studios are located at the Rogers Building at Bloor and Jarvis in downtown Toronto, while its 8-tower transmitter array is located on the southern edge of Lake Ontario at Oakes and Winston Road (near the QEW and Casablanca Road) in Grimsby. 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.
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 AM 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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