CIWW (AM)
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| City | Ottawa, Ontario |
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| Broadcast area | National Capital Region |
| Branding | 1310 News |
| Slogan | Ottawa's News. Sports. Talk. |
| Frequency | 1310 kHz (AM) |
| First air date | 1922 |
| Format | News/Talk/Sports |
| Power | 50 kW |
| Class | B (Regional) |
| Facility ID | 104808 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°15′27.1″N 75°47′03.2″W / 45.257528°N 75.784222°W |
| Former callsigns | CKCO, CKOY |
| Affiliations | Toronto Blue Jays Radio Network |
| Owner |
Rogers Media, a division of Rogers Communications (Rogers Radio) |
| Sister stations | CHEZ-FM, CISS-FM, CJET-FM, CKBY-FM |
| Website | www.1310news.com |
Coordinates: 45°15′27.1″N 75°47′03.2″W / 45.257528°N 75.784222°W
CIWW is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 1310 kHz in Ottawa, Ontario. Owned by Rogers Communications, CIWW is one of several Rogers-owned stations with a news/talk/sports format, in this case branded as 1310 News. The station broadcasts with 50,000 watts from a transmitter site located at McKenna Casey Drive and Highway 416, with studios located at Thurston Drive and Conroy Road in Ottawa. CIWW is not a clear-channel station, but is the only station in Canada broadcasting on 1310 AM; it uses a daytime 2-tower directional antenna, and a nighttime 5-tower directional antenna. The nighttime signal is beamed mainly into Canada.
The station was launched in 1922 by Dr. George Geldert, with the call sign CKCO. After changing frequencies a number of times (as most early AM radio stations in North America did), the station permanently adopted its current 1310 AM frequency in 1941. In 1945, CKCO became Ottawa's affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Dominion Network.
In 1949, the station was purchased by Southam, and changed its callsign to CKOY. The use of the CKCO call sign was in no way related to CKCO-TV in Kitchener, which signed on five years later.
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