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Newstalk 1010

CFRB
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City Toronto, Ontario
Branding Newstalk 1010
Slogan Toronto's breaking news, traffic, and weather.
Frequency 1010 kHz (AM)
6.07 MHz (Shortwave)
Repeater(s) 99.9 CKFM-FM-HD2
First air date February 19, 1927
Format News/Talk
Power 50,000 watts
Class A
Transmitter coordinates 43°30′39.67″N 79°37′48.07″W / 43.5110194°N 79.6300194°W / 43.5110194; -79.6300194
Callsign meaning Canada's First Rogers Batteryless
Former frequencies 1030 kHz (1927)
960 kHz (1927-1931)
690 kHz (1931-1941)
860 kHz (1941-1947)
Affiliations CBS Radio News
Owner Bell Media
(Bell Media Radio G.P.)
Sister stations TV: CFTO-DT, CP24, CKVR-DT (Barrie)
Radio: CHUM (AM), CHUM-FM, CKFM-FM
Website www.newstalk1010.com

CFRB is an AM radio clear-channel station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, broadcasting a news/talk at 1010 kHz, with a shortwave radio simulcast on CFRX at 6.07 MHz on the 49m band. CFRB's studios are located in the Entertainment District at 250 Richmond Street West, a building which is adjacent to 299 Queen Street West, while its 4-tower transmitter array is located in the Clarkson neighbourhood of Mississauga.

Founded in 1927, CFRB was not Toronto's very first broadcaster, but it is the city's oldest broadcaster still operating today. It has also retained its original call letters from 1927 to the present. (CKYC was on the air from to 1925 to 1996, but only adopted these call letters in 1991 having previously used CKCL and CKEY; its frequency is now occupied by a completely different station, CHKT.)

CFRB was founded by the Rogers Vacuum Tube Company (the precursor of Rogers Communications) to promote Edward S. Rogers, Sr.'s invention of a batteryless radio receiver that could be operated using alternating current and therefore did not need the cumbersome battery that had previously been required. The station itself was a demonstration of Rogers' application of his invention to radio transmitters as well as receivers, a development that allowed for a signal that reproduced voices and music more clearly. The new type of transmitter also made CFRB the world's first all-electric radio station. The letters "RB" in the station's callsign stand for "Rogers' Batteryless". The station began transmitting on an experimental basis in January 1927 as 9RB, before being converted to commercial operation a few weeks later, on February 19, with the transmission of a live symphony orchestra concert conducted by Jack Arthur.


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