Talk:CFTR (AM)

Recent changes
The page was moved to "680 News/CFTR", which is not an encyclopedic title. A Google search finds nobody in the world referring to the station as "680 News/CFTR," and every other broadcast station in Canada is referred to by call signs. (See a previous debate at Talk:CIVT, which I'll admit was a much more borderline case than CFTR.)

The inline disambiguation to cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator is great; if there was a sentiment that this wasn't enough, and CFTR should either redirect there directly with an inline disambig on the other side, or that CFTR should be a disambiguation page itself, then the page should go to CFTR (radio); see CHUM (radio).

Five external links entirely about CFTR and relevant to the subject of the article – a station history from the Canadian Communications Foundation at Ryerson with some details not included in the article, a tribute site shedding light on its Top 40 heyday, coverage maps showing the extent of the station's signal historically and today, and photos of the transmitter (of great interest to the tower-hunting subculture) – were deleted without explanation, and replaced with a link to the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement. The BBM doesn't say a single thing about CFTR on the public portions of its site. I've reverted the changes to the external links. Samaritan 01:56, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Too long a list
Recommend paring the list down to current employees and only notable past employees. --Janus Shadowsong (talk)/ (contribs) 19:58, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Agree and someone has recently added several dozen more people to the list ... i will go about reverting it. eja2k 21:14, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

CFTR = Canada's First Ted Rogers
I'm not a regular Wiki editor, so perhaps someone else can do the appropriate citation coding.

The callsign meaning here on the CFTR page says it's still looking for a citation. Here's one:

"On June 21, 1971, the anniversary of my father's birth, we had a huge party at Casa Loma to celebrate the rebranding of CHFI-AM to CFTR (one of the top stations in the market). The name was a play on my dad's CFRB -- Canada's First Ted Rogers."

-- Page 106 from Ted's new book, "Relentless: The true story of the man behind Rogers Communications" by Ted Rogers with Robert Brehl. Published by HarperCollins, 2008.

24.235.112.42 (talk) 20:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Transmitter Location
The infobox should contain the location of the transmitter, as its handy information for the curious. In this case, CFTR's transmitter is located at 43°12'50.00"N, 79°36'29.99"W (Grimsby, ON). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geebee75 (talk • contribs) 23:18, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Logo for CFTR AM
The current logo on this page for CFTR, is an outdated logo of the CityNews brand, and doesn't reflect the recent brand change of the radio station to CityNews 680. 7C-Rad7 (talk) 01:41, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

680 News logo - station renamed again?
What happened to the old 680 News logo? Shouldn't it be retained in the history section along with other old logos?

Incidentally, it appears that the station has just dropped the CityNews moniker and is now identifying itself on air as 680 News Radio Toronto and the app/listen live player has also been renamed and can be found here

Wellington Bay (talk) 16:18, 25 March 2024 (UTC)