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Overview
Slaight Communications is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 broadcasting company. The company was first formed as Slaight Broadcasting in 1971, when owner J. Allan Slaight acquired CFGM
CFMJ (AM)
CFMJ is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 640 khz on the AM dial. Officially licensed to Richmond Hill, Ontario, but the studio and mailing address is at 1 Dundas Street West in Toronto. The station airs a talk radio and sports format targeted to the entire Greater Toronto Area.- Early...

 in Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Richmond Hill is a town located in Southern Ontario in the central portion of York Region, Ontario, located about halfway between Toronto and Lake Simcoe. It is the third most populous municipality in York Region and the 28th most populous municipality in Canada. It is part of the Greater Toronto...

. Slaight later also acquired CFOX
CFOX (AM)
CFOX was an English language Canadian AM radio station located in Pointe-Claire, Quebec from 1960 to 1977. It later operated as CKO, the Montreal station of the news network of the same name, until 1989.-History:With studios based at 203 Hymus Blvd...

 in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec. Originally called Ville-Marie , the city takes its present name from Mont-Royal, the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the...

 and CHOK
CHOK (AM)
CHOK is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 1070 AM in Sarnia, Ontario. The station broadcasts a country music format with the brand name Country CHOK.The station was launched in 1946 by Sarnia Broadcasting...

 in Sarnia
Sarnia, Ontario
Sarnia is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the upper Great Lakes empty into the St. Clair River....

, and launched CILQ
CILQ-FM
CILQ-FM is a radio station, broadcasting at 107.1 FM in Toronto, Ontario. The station broadcasts a classic rock format branded as Q107, and is also available through streaming audio.The station is owned by Corus Entertainment.-History:...

 in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America...

.

The company later sold off all of its original assets, and continued to operate its radio holdings through the Standard Broadcasting division after Slaight bought out that company in 1985.
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Slaight Communications is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 broadcasting company. The company was first formed as Slaight Broadcasting in 1971, when owner J. Allan Slaight acquired CFGM
CFMJ (AM)
CFMJ is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 640 khz on the AM dial. Officially licensed to Richmond Hill, Ontario, but the studio and mailing address is at 1 Dundas Street West in Toronto. The station airs a talk radio and sports format targeted to the entire Greater Toronto Area.- Early...

 in Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Richmond Hill is a town located in Southern Ontario in the central portion of York Region, Ontario, located about halfway between Toronto and Lake Simcoe. It is the third most populous municipality in York Region and the 28th most populous municipality in Canada. It is part of the Greater Toronto...

. Slaight later also acquired CFOX
CFOX (AM)
CFOX was an English language Canadian AM radio station located in Pointe-Claire, Quebec from 1960 to 1977. It later operated as CKO, the Montreal station of the news network of the same name, until 1989.-History:With studios based at 203 Hymus Blvd...

 in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec. Originally called Ville-Marie , the city takes its present name from Mont-Royal, the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the...

 and CHOK
CHOK (AM)
CHOK is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 1070 AM in Sarnia, Ontario. The station broadcasts a country music format with the brand name Country CHOK.The station was launched in 1946 by Sarnia Broadcasting...

 in Sarnia
Sarnia, Ontario
Sarnia is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the upper Great Lakes empty into the St. Clair River....

, and launched CILQ
CILQ-FM
CILQ-FM is a radio station, broadcasting at 107.1 FM in Toronto, Ontario. The station broadcasts a classic rock format branded as Q107, and is also available through streaming audio.The station is owned by Corus Entertainment.-History:...

 in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America...

.

The company later sold off all of its original assets, and continued to operate its radio holdings through the Standard Broadcasting division after Slaight bought out that company in 1985. As Standard, it remained the largest privately-owned multimedia company in Canada until it sold its radio and TV broadcasting assets to Astral Media
Astral Media
Astral Media Inc. is a Canadian media corporation. It is Canada's largest radio broadcaster with radio stations in eight provinces, and is a major player in premium and specialty television in Canada, including The Movie Network, Super Écran, Family, Teletoon, Canal D, Canal Vie, VRAK.TV, Séries+,...

 in 2007.

The company continues to operate holdings in non-traditional broadcast platforms such as satellite radio
Satellite radio
A satellite radio or subscription radio is a digital radio signal that is broadcast by a communications satellite, which covers a much wider geographical range than terrestrial radio signals....

 and Internet radio
Internet radio
Internet radio is an audio broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly through wireless means...

. Slaight also continues to hold minority investments in three other small radio station groups.

Standard Broadcasting


Standard Broadcasting was founded as Standard Radio Manufacturing in 1925 by Edward S. Rogers, Sr.
Edward S. Rogers, Sr.
Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers is regarded as the founder of Rogers Communications although it was established in 1967. He died at the age of 38.Ted Rogers first became interested in radio when he saw a receiver at age 11...

, but soon became known as Rogers Vacuum Tube Company
Rogers Vacuum Tube Company
Rogers Vacuum Tube Company was founded as "Standard Radio Manufacturing" in 1925 by Edward S. Rogers, Sr. to sell Rogers "Batteryless" radio using vacuum tube technology. It was later renamed Rogers Majestic Corporation Limited when Rogers merged his company with Majestic Corporation of Chicago...

 and later became the Rogers Majestic Corporation Limited.

Rogers launched what would become radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast common programming, either in syndication or simulcast or both...

 CFRB in 1927 in order to demonstrate a batteryless alternating current
Alternating current
In alternating current the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. An electric charge would for instance move forward, then backward, then forward, then backward, over and over again...

 radio transmitter he had invented. The broadcasting division of the company was renamed Standard Radio Limited in 1941 when the Rogers family sold off the assets of Rogers Magestic two years after the death of Edward Rogers. In 1945, Standard Radio was purchased by Argus Corporation and in 1966 Standard Radio Limited was renamed Standard Broadcasting.

Argus was acquired by Conrad Black
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG is a historian, columnist and publisher who was for a time the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world...

 and his brother in 1978. Argus subsequently sold Standard to Slaight in 1985.

Merged operations



As Standard, the company under Slaight operated 82 radio stations in English Canada and two television stations in northern British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . In 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada...

. It also owned a significant minority interest in the radio station operators Milestone Radio
Milestone Radio
Milestone Radio Incorporated is a Canadian radio broadcasting company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. They are also the only broadcasting company in Canada that is owned and operated by Black Canadians. The company's president is Denham Jolly....

, Haliburton Broadcasting Group
Haliburton Broadcasting Group
Haliburton Broadcasting Group is a Canadian group of FM radio stations, located primarily in smaller markets in Ontario.-History:The company is named for the Haliburton region in Central Ontario, where majority owner and president Christopher Grossman, a longtime radio sales manager, trainer and...

 and 3937844 Canada Inc. in Canada, and Martz Communications Group
Martz Communications Group
Martz Communications Group is a American radio broadcasting company, which operates three radio stations in the St. Lawrence River area of New York....

 in the US. The company also operated divisions in e-commerce, videotape
Videotape
Videotape is a means of recording images and sound on to magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. Videotapes are also used for storing scientific or medical data, such as the data produced by an electrocardiogram...

 and DVD
DVD
DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc,is an optical disc storage media format, and was founded in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage...

 distribution, retail marketing and audio and video post-production.

In 2006, the company announced an initial public offering
Initial public offering
An initial public stock offering referred to simply as an "offering" or "flotation," is when a company issues common stock or shares to the public for the first time...

 via an income trust
Income trust
An income trust is an investment trust that holds income-producing assets. The term also designates a legal entity, capital structure and ownership vehicle for certain assets or businesses. Its shares or "trust units" are traded on securities exchanges just like stocks. The income is passed on to...

; these plans were later cancelled due to "market conditions". On February 23, 2007, Astral Media
Astral Media
Astral Media Inc. is a Canadian media corporation. It is Canada's largest radio broadcaster with radio stations in eight provinces, and is a major player in premium and specialty television in Canada, including The Movie Network, Super Écran, Family, Teletoon, Canal D, Canal Vie, VRAK.TV, Séries+,...

 announced that it had signed a letter of intent and had entered into exclusive negotiations regarding the acquisition of "substantially all of the assets" of Standard. A formal agreement was later announced, with the proposed transaction being approved by the CRTC on September 28, 2007.

Astral did not acquire Standard's Internet and satellite radio assets, nor its minority interests in various other radio stations. The transaction was finalized on October 29, 2007, and Standard changed its name to Slaight Communications the following day.

Current assets


After selling its Standard Radio assets to Astral Media
Astral Media
Astral Media Inc. is a Canadian media corporation. It is Canada's largest radio broadcaster with radio stations in eight provinces, and is a major player in premium and specialty television in Canada, including The Movie Network, Super Écran, Family, Teletoon, Canal D, Canal Vie, VRAK.TV, Séries+,...

 in October 2007, Slaight Communications is the owner and operator of Internet radio
Internet radio
Internet radio is an audio broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly through wireless means...

 portal Iceberg Radio
Iceberg Radio
Iceberg Radio is a Canadian Internet radio service, which provides more than 100 channels of streaming audio. Founded in 1997 by the late John Walters and DJ Hedley Jones as the Virtual Canadian Broadcast Network, it was one of the first major ventures into large-scale Internet audio broadcasting...

 and is also partnered with Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in the United States and Canada, owned by Sirius XM Radio. Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and...

 and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Société Radio-Canada...

 in Sirius Canada
Sirius Canada
Sirius Canada is a Canadian partnership between Slaight Communications, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Sirius Satellite Radio, which was one of three services licensed by the CRTC on June 16, 2005 to introduce satellite radio service to Canada....

.

The company also retains its minority shares in the Haliburton
Haliburton Broadcasting Group
Haliburton Broadcasting Group is a Canadian group of FM radio stations, located primarily in smaller markets in Ontario.-History:The company is named for the Haliburton region in Central Ontario, where majority owner and president Christopher Grossman, a longtime radio sales manager, trainer and...

, Milestone
Milestone Radio
Milestone Radio Incorporated is a Canadian radio broadcasting company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. They are also the only broadcasting company in Canada that is owned and operated by Black Canadians. The company's president is Denham Jolly....

 and Martz
Martz Communications Group
Martz Communications Group is a American radio broadcasting company, which operates three radio stations in the St. Lawrence River area of New York....

 radio groups, although both Haliburton and Martz have sold off many of their assets in 2008 as well.

Standard's minority share in 3937844 Canada was also not transferred to Astral, but was wholly acquired by its majority owner, Newcap Broadcasting
Newcap Broadcasting
Newfoundland Capital Corporation Limited , doing business as Newcap Broadcasting, is a major Canadian broadcasting company. Harold R. Steele is the majority shareholder...

, in a separate transaction which also took place in 2007.

British Columbia

  • Dawson Creek - CJDC
    CJDC (AM)
    CJDC is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 890 AM in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. The station, owned by Astral Media, airs a country music format....

  • Fort Nelson
    Fort Nelson, British Columbia
    Fort Nelson is a town of approximately 5000 residents in British Columbia's northeastern corner. It is the administrative centre of the newly-formed Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, a first for BC. The majority of Fort Nelson's economic activities have historically been concentrated in the...

     - CKRX
    CKRX-FM
    CKRX-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 102.3 FM in Fort Nelson, British Columbia. The station is branded as Energy 102.3 and is owned by Astral Media....

  • Fort St. John
    Fort St. John, British Columbia
    The City of Fort St. John is a small city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. A member municipality of the Peace River Regional District, the city covers an area of about 22 km² with 17,402 residents . Located at Mile 47, it is the second largest city along the Alaska Highway, after...

     - CHRX
    CHRX-FM
    CHRX-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 98.5 FM in Fort St. John, British Columbia, with a rebroadcaster at 95.1 FM in Dawson Creek with the callsign CHRX-FM-1. The station is branded as Energy 98.5 and owned by Astral Media.The station began...

    , CKNL
    CKNL-FM
    CKNL-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a mainstream rock format at 101.5 FM in Fort St. John, British Columbia. The station is branded as 101.5 The Bear and is owned by Astral Media...

  • Golden
    Golden, British Columbia
    Golden is a town in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located 262 kilometres of highway west from Calgary, Alberta and 713 kilometres east of Vancouver.-History:...

     - CKGR
  • Kelowna
    Kelowna
    Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a native term for "grizzly bear"...

     - CHSU
    CHSU-FM
    CHSU-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 99.9 FM in Kelowna, British Columbia. The station, owned by Astral Media, broadcasts a hot adult contemporary / CHR format branded as 99.9 Sun FM....

    , CILK
    CILK-FM
    CILK-FM is a Canadian radio station located in Kelowna, British Columbia. Broadcasting at 101.5 FM, the station airs an adult contemporary format branded as 101.5 Silk FM.-History:...

    , CKFR
    CKFR (AM)
    CKFR is a radio station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Broadcasting at 1150 AM, the station airs news/talk and sports formats, and identifies on air as AM 1150 News, Talk, Sports. It is owned by Astral Media....

  • Kitimat
    Kitimat, British Columbia
    Kitimat is a coastal city in northwestern British Columbia, in the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine . The Kitimat Valley, which includes the adjacent community of Terrace, is the most populous urban district in Northwest British Columbia...

     - CKTK
    CKTK-FM
    CKTK-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 97.7 FM in Kitimat, British Columbia. The station is branded as The Mix, with “The Best of the 80’s, 90’s and Now”...

  • Nelson
    Nelson, British Columbia
    Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme west arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada...

     - CKKC-FM
    CKKC-FM
    CKKC-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 106.9 FM in Nelson, British Columbia. The station is owned by Astral Media. The station's programming is produced partly from its own studios, and partly from its sister station CJAT in Trail.The station was...

  • Osoyoos
    Osoyoos, British Columbia
    Osoyoos Osoyoos Osoyoos (officially , but also historically is a town in the southern part of the Okanagan Valley near British Columbia's border with Washington state, and neighbouring the Indian Reserve of the Osoyoos Indian Band...

     - CJOR
  • Penticton - CJMG
    CJMG-FM
    CJMG-FM is a Canadian radio station located in Penticton, British Columbia. The station, owned by Astral Media and operating at 97.1 FM with 1800 watts of power, is branded as Sun FM and has a hot adult contemporary format.-External links:**...

    , CKOR
  • Prince Rupert
    Prince Rupert, British Columbia
    Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and home to some 12,815 people .-History:...

     - CHTK
  • Princeton
    Princeton, British Columbia
    Princeton is a small town in the Similkameen region of British Columbia, Canada. It lies just east of the Cascade Mountains, which continue south into Washington, Oregon and California. The Tulameen and Similkameen Rivers converge here...

     - CIOR
  • Revelstoke
    Revelstoke, British Columbia
    Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located 641 kilometers east of Vancouver, and 415 kilometers west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...

     - CKCR
  • Richmond
    Richmond, British Columbia
    Richmond is a coastal city, incorporated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver, its neighbouring communities are Vancouver and Burnaby to the north, New Westminster to the east, and Delta to the south, while the Strait of Georgia forms its western border...

     - CISL
    CISL (AM)
    CISL is a Canadian adult standards radio station, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The station broadcasts on the AM band at 650 kilohertz. It is one of Canada's few remaining successful music stations on the AM dial. The calls in its moniker are generally pronounced "C-Isle".-History:CISL...

    , CKZZ
    CKZZ-FM
    CKZZ-FM is a Canadian radio station in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia. It broadcasts at 95.3 MHz on the FM band with an effective radiated power of 71,300 watts from a transmitter on Mount Seymour, and its studios are located in Richmond...

  • Salmon Arm
    Salmon Arm, British Columbia
    Salmon Arm is a city in the Southern Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia that has a population of 16,205 . It is on the shores of Shuswap Lake, where the Salmon River empties into the Salmon Arm reach of the Lake. It is a tourist town in the summer, with many beaches, as well as...

     - CKXR
    CKXR-FM
    CKXR-FM is a Canadian radio station in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. The station, operating at 91.5 MHz with 640 watts of power, is owned by Astral Media and airs an adult contemporary format under the EZ Rock on-air brand.-History:...

  • Summerland
    Summerland, British Columbia
    Summerland is a community on the west side of Okanagan Lake in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. The town is between Peachland to the north and Penticton to the south...

     - CHOR
    CHOR (AM)
    CHOR is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a soft adult contemporary format at 1450 AM in Summerland, British Columbia. The station is owned by Astral Media....

  • Terrace
    Terrace, British Columbia
    Terrace is a service community on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada. Tsimshian people have lived in the area for thousands of years. The community population fell between 2001 and 2006 from 12,109 with a regional population of 19,980 to 11,320 and regional of 18,581 . The community...

     - CFTK
    CFTK (AM)
    CFTK is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 590 AM in Terrace, British Columbia. The station is branded as Mix FM “The Best of the 80’s, 90’s and Now”. The station is owned by Astral Media....

    , CJFW
    CJFW-FM
    CJFW-FM is a Canadian radio station, airing at 103.1 FM in Terrace, British Columbia. It is currently owned by Astral Media, broadcasting a country music format to communities throughout northwestern B.C....

  • Trail
    Trail, British Columbia
    Trail is a city in the West Kootenay region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada.-Geography:Trail has an area of 34.78 km². The city is located on both banks of the Columbia River, approximately 10 km north of the United States border. This section of the Columbia River valley is located...

     - CJAT
    CJAT-FM
    CJAT-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 95.7 FM in Trail, British Columbia and is also heard in Castlegar at 90.3 FM and Grand Forks at 103.3 FM, including other rebroadcasters. The station is owned by Astral Media.-External links:**...

  • Vernon
    Vernon, British Columbia
    Vernon is a city in the south-central region of British Columbia, Canada. Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped found the famed Coldstream Ranch, the City of Vernon was incorporated on December 30, 1892. The City of Vernon has a population of 35,944 , while...

     - CICF
    CICF-FM
    CICF-FM is a radio station in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada airing a hot adult contemporary format at 105.7 FM, using the on-air branding as Sun-FM.The station began broadcasting on October 23, 1978 on the AM band at 1050 kHz as CKAL...


Alberta

  • Calgary
    Calgary
    Calgary is the largest city in the Province of Alberta, Canada.The Calgary census metropolitan area is the third most diverse in Canada in terms of visible minorities after Toronto and Vancouver when considering only CMAs with population greater than 200,000...

     - CIBK
    CIBK-FM
    CIBK-FM is a contemporary hit radio station based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Astral Media outlet operates at 98.5 MHz FM with an effective radiated power of 100 kW.-History:The station received approval by the CRTC in 2001....

    , CJAY
    CJAY-FM
    CJAY-FM is an mainstream rock radio station in Calgary, Alberta that broadcasts on 92.1 FM. Owned by Astral Media, CJAY operates repeater transmitters located in Banff, Alberta and Invermere, British Columbia . Its founder was Ralph Connor, who moved to Calgary from Sudbury, Ontario to start the...

    , CKMX
    CKMX (AM)
    CKMX is a Canadian radio station in Calgary, Alberta with a classic country music format at AM 1060 kHz and is owned by Astral Media.The station dates back to 1921 when it was founded as CFCN. It was a phantom station affiliate of the Canadian National Railway radio network and later of the...

  • Edmonton
    Edmonton
    Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. The city is located on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies...

     - CFBR
    CFBR-FM
    CFBR-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting an active rock format at 100.3 on the FM dial in Edmonton, Alberta. The station uses the brand name The Bear....

    , CFRN
    CFRN (AM)
    CFRN is a radio station in Edmonton, Alberta. Owned by Astral Media and broadcasting at 1260 AM, the station airs a sports format, branded as The Team 1260.-History:...

  • St. Albert
    St. Albert, Alberta
    St. Albert is a city in Alberta, located northwest of Edmonton, on the Sturgeon River. It was originally settled as a Metis community, and is now, other than Edmonton itself, the largest city in the Edmonton area. St...

     - CFMG
    CFMG-FM
    CFMG-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at FM 104.9 in Edmonton, Alberta. Branded as 104.9 EZ Rock, the station plays an adult contemporary format....


Manitoba

  • Brandon
    Brandon, Manitoba
    Brandon is a city in southwestern Manitoba, Canada.The surrounding area is often referred to as "Westman".The city started as a major junction on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Assiniboine River and was then incorporated in 1882....

     - CKX
    CKX-FM
    CKX-FM is the call sign of a Canadian radio station operating in Brandon, Manitoba. CKX-FM operates at 96.1 FM, broadcasting a mainstream rock format under the brand name KX96.-History:...

    , CKXA
    CKXA-FM
    CKXA-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 101.1 FM in Brandon, Manitoba. The station broadcasts country music as 101.1 The Farm.-History:...

  • Selkirk
    Selkirk, Manitoba
    Selkirk is a city in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, located about 22 km northeast of the provincial capital Winnipeg on the Red River, near . As of the 2006 census, Selkirk had a population of 9,515....

     - CFQX
    CFQX-FM
    CFQX-FM is a country music radio station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Officially licensed to Selkirk, the station currently operates out of studios in Winnipeg....

  • Winnipeg
    Winnipeg
    Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, in south central Canada, near the eastern edge of the Canadian Prairies, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers...

     - CKMM
    CKMM-FM
    CKMM-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting a contemporary hit radio format in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is known as Hot 103. Hot 103 is owned and operated by Astral Media. It is currently the second highest-rated radio station in Winnipeg behind CJOB 680 and highest-rated FM radio station...


Ontario

  • Hamilton
    Hamilton, Ontario
    Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

     - CHAM
    Cham
    Cham may refer to:*Cham Albanians, also spelled as Çam, a people originating in northern Greece of Albanian descent*Cham people, a people living in Vietnam and Cambodia**Cham language, the language of the Cham people...

    , CKLH
    CKLH-FM
    CKLH-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102.9 FM in Hamilton, Ontario. The station broadcasts an adult contemporary format branded as K-Lite FM....

    , CKOC
  • London
    London, Ontario
    London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor with a metropolitan area population of 457,720; the city proper had a population of 352,395 in the 2006 Canadian census....

     - CIQM
    CIQM-FM
    CIQM-FM is an FM radio station broadcasting at 97.5 FM in London, Ontario, Canada, branded as 97.5FM EZ Rock. The station plays an adult contemporary format branded as EZ Rock. 97.5FM EZ Rock is owned by Astral Media and its sister stations include CJBX, CJBK and CKSL...

    , CJBK, CJBX
    CJBX-FM
    CJBX-FM is a country music radio station in London, Ontario, branded as "BX93". The station is owned by Astral Media and has studios on 743 Wellington Road South, along with CIQM, CJBK and CKSL. BX-93 broadcasts with 50,000 Watts of power from a site just south of Highway 401 near Mossley.BX93...

    , CKSL
  • Ottawa
    Ottawa
    Ottawa is the capital of Canada and a municipality within the Province of Ontario. Located in the Ottawa Valley in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, the city lies on the southern banks of the Ottawa River, a major waterway forming the local boundary between the Provinces of Ontario and...

     - CKQB
    CKQB-FM
    CKQB-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts an active rock format at 106.9 FM in Ottawa and 99.9 FM in Pembroke...

  • Pembroke
    Pembroke, Ontario
    Pembroke is a Canadian city in the Eastern portion of Southern Ontario at the confluence of the Muskrat River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley...

     - CHVR
    CHVR-FM
    CHVR-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 96.7 FM in Pembroke, Ontario. The station airs a country music format branded as Star 96....

  • St. Catharines
    St. Catharines, Ontario
    St. Catharines is the largest city in Canada's Niagara Region and the sixth largest urban area in Ontario, Canada, with 97.11 square kilometres of land...

     - CHRE
    CHRE-FM
    CHRE-FM is a radio station in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Airing at 105.7 FM, the station broadcasts an adult contemporary format with the brand name 105.7 EZ Rock.-History:...

    , CHTZ
    CHTZ-FM
    CHTZ-FM is a radio station in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The station airs at 97.7 on the FM dial, and broadcasts an active rock format with the brand name HTZ FM.-History:...

    , CKTB
  • Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America...

     - CFRB, CJEZ
    CJEZ-FM
    CJEZ-FM is a radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It broadcasts an adult contemporary format at 97.3 FM, and it identifies itself on-air as EZ Rock. It is the flagship of the EZ Rock stations owned by Astral Media...

    , CKFM
    CKFM-FM
    CKFM-FM, branded as Virgin Radio 999, is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 99.9 on the FM dial in Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned by Astral Media...


Television assets

  • Dawson Creek - CJDC
    CJDC-TV
    CJDC-TV is a television station in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. It is owned by Astral Media and is the CBC Television affiliate in that city...

  • Terrace
    Terrace, British Columbia
    Terrace is a service community on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada. Tsimshian people have lived in the area for thousands of years. The community population fell between 2001 and 2006 from 12,109 with a regional population of 19,980 to 11,320 and regional of 18,581 . The community...

     - CFTK
    CFTK-TV
    CFTK-TV is a television station in Terrace, British Columbia, broadcasting on channel 3. It is owned by Astral Media and is the CBC Television affiliate in that city. The station also has a repeater in Prince Rupert, broadcasting on Channel 6....