Talk:CFPL (AM)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

AM 980 on-air ID change? (Nov / 2017)
There is something different about the way that AM 980 (CFPL) announces it's station id or affiliation that seemed to start Nov 1 / 2017 but I can't quite put my finger on it. Is it that they are including "Global" now?

And can someone explain how a TV station (London Channel 10) and a radio station (AM 980) can have the same call sign (CFPL)? Why would the CRTC allow or assign the same call sign to a radio station and tv station? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.2.94.117 (talk) 13:07, 3 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Sharing of call signs is not unusual. Detroit, for example, had WWJ radio, WWJ-FM, and WWJ-TV.  WJBK radio, WJBK-FM, WJBK-TV.  I suppose that if Colonial Broadcasting System in St. John's, Nfld., owner of VOCM Radio, had acquired the TV licence for that city in the 1950s, VOCM-TV would exist as the only TV station in Canada with a call sign that started with VO. Stations often used the same call sign when owned by the same broadcaster.


 * For whatever reason, the feds now allow stations to have the same call sign even if they're no longer formally associated. Perhaps it is because call signs are so rarely used nowadays. CFPL-AM was launched in 1922 as CJGC, owned by the London Free Press. When relaunched in the fall of 1933, it had the CFPL (Free Press London) call sign. In 1948, they added the FM sister station.  Five years later, they obtained a TV licence and launched CFPL-TV.  In the 1980s-1990s, the corporate family of newspaper and three broadcast stations began to break up, with the newspaper family no longer owning the broadcasting assets, but the call sign carried on, and the TV station, unsustainable as a stand-alone independent station, was sold to a group of TV stations.  But the call signs were left the same. GBC (talk) 16:04, 23 September 2018 (UTC)