Will a new station use the 900 khz frequency?

The KSPS Public Television came from Spokane.

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Lopez Patricia Jones Barbara Hernandez Daniel

Final Sign-Off Announcement 11:42: “We have some important news to share with you. Today, after decades of serving the great city of Hamilton, we want to inform you that we will be closing 900 CHML. We want to express our gratitude to each and everyone of you in the community, and most importantly our advertisers and our listeners. You are the cornerstone of our station’s legacy. Thank you.” -Station Manager for 900 CHML. 12:08, the radio became silent and now transmitters were shut down.

Hopefully you'll have the Paris one.

0:16 💀🚨🚨🚨🚨

Brian Curtis, Meredith Land

5:03 possibly a reference to Sabrina Carpenter’s new album?

Who’s left now. Linda is gone

Kristi Nelson, Bianca Castro

15 Years Later, Red Deer is still without CHCA to this day.

I wonder gaby riaos ended up going into communications or Public relations like a alot of other reporters did over the years and we dont see her there anymore now also?

ffs corus is becoming hell media…

How long until they pull a CKX and abandon television in Lethbridge?

Good evening. Any updates regarding the future of kyw and Wpht in Philadelphia that you can share?

At least it's not an MMC bulletin.

The broadcast just ended with a very short thank you message and closing off air. how sad.

I am a fan of CHML 900 and absolutely devastated. I am from Doha, Qatar and thru RADIO GARDEN I can link with CHML too bad as I am one of an avid fan. I noticed that many institutions are closing regardless of its contribution to the history of a nation. Please reconsider or please guide us where to hear similar stations from locals in Canada. Thank you

What is the global news Lethbridge channel on Rogers I can't find it

Politically motivated.

So sad that this station is gone. Every night I got this station on my radio.

This was a 50kw Canadian clear station that had served Hamilton and much of Canada for some 97 years. It's an outright insult that this station didn't get a chance to say more, pull out some archival material, and note the great men and women who had been at CHML over those 97 years. Bad on you, Corus, for such a poor move.

Western Edition is in California

Not the first time Corus has done this. In Montreal in 2010 they abruptly shut down CINW 940, the direct descendant of CFCF 600 from one day to the next for similar reasons. CFCF's roots went back to 1919 and was the first ever station with continuous programming.

Probably aired on August 17, 2007 aka the night of the premiere of Disney Channel's _High School Musical 2_ (which, in Canada, was simulcast on both Family Channel and Global TV)

No O Canada, and transmitter information? No goodbye?

Classy move GloBULL

I almost felt sick listening to this. What a dark day for Hamilton and beyond.

As a native Montréaler who was just in that area 2 weeks ago, I can honestly say that the water main break is HUGE. I often passed in front of the CTV Montréal (formerly CFCF 12) studios to peek in. I'm not mad that the studio is flooded. Maybe now they can get a new set! CTV stopped investing in set changes and graphics package changes 10 years ago. So, if this is what it takes to get some new digs, then so be it!

I remember Beat the Clock being taped here. I wrote for tickets. I often wonder whatever happened to the clock. It would be cool to have.

Ouch.

Oh hey, that's another unexpected appearance of a piece of the 1999-era ITV News theme in the identifiers (along with the "Look at my suit!" bit of Hannibal's in The Eric Andre Show). A better shutdown than how Bell handled all of the TSN Radio stations they shut a few years back, but only just barely.

Those automated news beds with no announcer... creepy and apocalyptic.

AM radio stations are slowly fading away from the Canadian airwaves...at least one major city in Atlantic Canada, Halifax, shut down their last AM radio station back in 2009; now all the radio stations there are only on the FM dial!

Global is dying. People don't want to listen to constant negativity. I miss real, local news stations.

I am fairly sure at 7:10 Myles Marcus knew something was up, he sounded a little off balance.

The shareholders are calling this "brave and heroic," no doubt.

If the Hamilton market could have supported CHML's revenue needs, this would have been yet another flamethrower AM repurposed on a FM freq. But the costs of doing a news and talk format obviously overwhelmed whatever top line the station might garner. The AM band, in many households, is now drowned out by USB chargers and many other RF emitting devices. No longer viable when a cell phone can deliver news and vital info.

Now, that was cold!

It's not just a huge corporation ran a great radio station into the ground. What about all the advertisers who plugged their stuff - especially non profits like Mission Services and the Salvation Army ... where are they going to go to raise funds or make pitches? If they've prepaid ad time do they get their money back? It's ironic, but when they moved their studios from the east end to Westdale 40 years ago, the song they played when the signal flipped studios was "The Sounds of Silence." Now all we have is silence. The personalities deserved a chance to say goodbye.

I wonder if the hosts/employee knew in advance or was announced in a last minutes meeting, maybe that why there was no host for 2 hours before the final on air annoucement. Similar to how SunNews Network shutdown, the emplyee only got a email memo when they arrive at work that day. At least they can sell the equipment or transfer them to there other stations.

11:36 Oh… it was an iHeartMedia Canada station… there’s the problem

That final announcement sounded like it was recorded on a cheap computer microphone from someone who worked at corporate.

I wish they had time to play clips of former legendary broadcasters or memorable stories through the years.

I used to listen until it was inundated with Rob Golfi commercials, once that happened I was done listening, that was few years ago now

What a shame. Contact Jon Pole at My Broadcasting Corporation, and he will buy a revive CHML. He will keep it local, and he knows how to run a station.

I wonder if the people the that shut it down were network executives maybe?

Just bizarre. No indication that they were going dark aside from that final sign off announcement.

45:34 (Rachel Notley) is someone they assume will be going into government. What an amazing foreshadowing lol