CJAD (AM)
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| City | Montreal, Quebec |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Montreal |
| Branding | CJAD 800/Newstalk 800 CJAD |
| Slogan |
"When Montreal needs an answer." "When Montreal needs to talk." "When Montreal needs Impact soccer." |
| Frequency | 800 kHz (AM) |
| Repeater(s) | 107.3 CITE-HD2 |
| First air date | 1945 |
| Format | News/talk |
| Power | 50,000 watts (daytime) 10,000 watts (nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°14′49.92″N 73°31′23.16″W / 45.2472000°N 73.5231000°W |
| Callsign meaning | Joseph-Arthur Dupont (founder) |
| Owner |
Bell Media (Bell Media Radio) |
| Sister stations | CFCF-DT, CHOM, CJFM, CKGM, CITE, CKMF |
| Website | www.cjad.com |
CJAD is an AM radio station, owned by Bell Media, operating in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station has an English language news/talk format and identifies itself on-air as 'CJAD 800'. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it broadcasts on 800 kHz. It has a daytime power of 50,000 watts and a nighttime power of 10,000 watts, as a class B station, using a very directional antenna with different patterns day and night to protect various other stations on the same frequency, including CJBQ in Belleville, Ontario; a vacant allocation in Quebec City (formerly CHRC); CKLW in Windsor, Ontario; and Class-A clear-channel station XEROK-AM in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The antenna is a four-tower array and is located near Saint-Edouard, while its studios are located on Rene-Levesque Boulevard East in Montreal.
CJAD was founded by J. Arthur Dupont in 1945, on whose name the call letters were based. It is often called Montreal's heritage anglophone station, particularly since the demise of the city's oldest anglophone station, CINW (successor to CFCF, Canada's first radio station). It signed on the air on December 8, 1945. In its first years, CJAD was based on De La Montagne street in Montreal (now the site of O'Sullivan College).
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