CKPC (AM)
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| City | Brantford, Ontario |
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| Branding | "AM 1380" |
| Slogan | "Hometown Radio" |
| Frequency | 1380 kHz (AM) |
| First air date | 1923 |
| Format | country / news / religious |
| Power | 25,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°03′20.2″N 80°18′54″W / 43.055611°N 80.31500°W |
| Callsign meaning | CK Preston, Canada |
| Owner | Evanov Communications |
| Sister stations | CKPC-FM |
| Webcast | [2] |
| Website | www.am1380.ca |
CKPC is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 1380 kHz in Brantford, Ontario, with its transmitter in the nearby township of Oakland. Owned and operated by Evanov Communications, the station airs country music, some folk music, a Christian religious program and the John Tesh syndicated Radio Show interspersed with country music. Other programming, on weekends, includes Casey Clarke Country Countdown and Just Us Folk.
CKPC went on the air in 1923. Its original city of licence was Preston, Ontario (now part of the city of Cambridge, Ontario). The station first started out as an amateur radio station, but the founder (Wallace Russ) quickly applied for a broadcast licence after a few trial broadcasts. His licence was granted, and he started broadcasting from his home in Preston at a power of just 5 watts. After Russ sold the station to his friend Cyrus Dolph, he still remained active with the station, and watched it grow throughout its early years. Its power would later increase to 25 watts in 1927, doubling in power and moving to 1010 kHz at 50 watts in 1930, and to 880 kHz. The station's main content was local news, and local artists and talents from Kitchener, Hamilton, and Brantford. In 1933 Cyrus Dolph purchased the station, which was soon moved from Preston to Brantford, Ontario.
In 1934, the station moved to Brantford and to 930 kHz on the AM dial; it would move to 1380 kHz, also its current location on the band, in 1947. The company added an FM station in 1949, CKPC-FM, operating at 250 watts and simulcasting the AM signal. (The FM station would not start 100% independent programming until 1976, when its power increased to 50,000 watts.) In 1951, Florence Buchanan became assumed full control of Telephone City Broadcast Limited, including CKPC-FM and CKPC-AM, from her father Cyrus. The AM station then had a 1,000 watt signal. She became the first woman in Canada to own and/or operate a radio station.
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