page_title: CINW
section_title: CFCF (1922-1991)
hierarchical_section_title: CINW / History / CFCF (1922-1991)
caption_attribution_description: English: Advertisement for CFCF radio in Montreal, Quebec. Includes the station slogan "Canada's First Station".
context_page_description: CINW was the final call sign used by an English language AM radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, which, along with French-language sister station CINF, ceased operations at 7:00 p.m. ET on January 29, 2010. Owned and operated by Corus Quebec, it broadcast on 940 kHz with a full-time power of 50,000 watts as a clear channel station, using a slightly directional antenna designed to improve reception in downtown Montreal.
  CINW traced its origin to an experimental facility, with the call letters XWA, which began test radiotelephone transmissions in 1919, and whose first documented entertainment broadcast was made on the evening of May 20, 1920. Due to its heritage, the station was generally considered to be Canada's first and oldest broadcasting station, as well as one of the first in the world.
context_section_description: In April 1922 the Canadian government began issuing the first licences specifically for "radio-telephone broadcasting stations". Initially all these stations received four-letter call signs starting with "CF", "CH", "CJ" or "CK", plus one additional "C" as the third or fourth letter. Included in the first group of twenty-three stations was a Montreal grant for Canadian Marconi, assigned a transmitting wavelength of 440 metres (682 kHz) and the call letters CFCF. The slogan "Canada's First, Canada's Finest" was later adopted based on the new call sign.
  After numerous frequency changes, followed by a three-year period from 1925 to 1928 when it shared time with CKAC on 730 kHz, CFCF began operating full-time at 600 kHz in 1933, which would remain the station's transmitting frequency until 1999. CFCF was an affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Dominion Network from 1944 to 1962; and also carried some programs from the U.S. NBC-Blue Network, at least as of 1939.
  Some notable personalities during the CFCF era included newsman Gordon Sinclair, morning hosts Ted Blackman and Al Boliska, sportscasters John Robertson and Dick Irvin, Jr., and 1960s rock 'n' roll disk jockey Dave Boxer. In 1986, CFCF changed its format from full service to adult standards.
caption: Station advertisements included the slogan "Canada's First Station".[25]
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