800 cjad slogan when montreal needs an answer . when montreal needs to talk . frequency 800 khz am first air date 1945 format news talk power 50 000 watts daytime 10 000 watts nighttime class b transmitter coordinates 45 14 49.92 n 73 31 23.16 w 45.2472000 n 73.5231000 w 45.2472000 ; 73.5231000 callsign meaning joseph arthur dupont founder owner bell media bell media radio sister stations cfcf dt chom cjfm ckgm website www.cjad.com cjad is an am radio station owned by bell media operating in montreal quebec canada . the station has an english language news talk format and identifies itself on air as cjad 800 . owned and operated by bell media it broadcasts on 800 khz . it has a daytime power of 50 000 watts and a nighttime power of 10 000 watts as a class b station using a very directional antenna with different patterns day and night to protect various other stations on the same frequency including cjbq in belleville ontario ; a vacant allocation in quebec city formerly chrc ; cklw in windsor ontario ; and class a clear channel station xerok am in ciudad ju rez mexico . the antenna is a four tower array and is located near saint edouard while its studios are located on rene levesque boulevard east in montreal . contents 1 history 1.1 1998 ice storm 2 news 3 sports 4 transmitter 5 current hosts 5.1 former 6 references 7 external links history edit the cjad studios in 1948 cjad was founded by j. arthur dupont in 1945 on whose name the call letters were based . it is often called montreal s heritage anglophone station particularly since the demise of the city s oldest anglophone station cinw successor to cfcf canada s first radio station . it signed on the air on december 8 1945 . 1 in its first years cjad was based on de la montagne street in montreal now the site of o sullivan college . in 1961 cjad was purchased by standard broadcasting . in 1978 control of standard broadcasting was purchased by conrad black via hollinger inc. . in 1985 standard was purchased by slaight communications a privately held company owned by j. allan slaight . in 1962 a sister station cjfm was launched . always separately programmed cjfm s programming became totally different from cjad only from about 1976 . for much of its life cjad had a full service format . the music was mainly adult contemporary plus two specialized shows on weekends the bandstand with dick irvin and starlight concert with rod dewar . in 1995 cjad shifted its format to full time news talk dropping all music and entertainment save for the sunday morning trivia show and the cjad comedy show . starting in 1992 almost all of cjad s programming was simulcast on corus entertainment owned ckts 900 in sherbrooke . on november 19 2006 ckts ceased broadcasting and its licence was surrendered to the canadian radio television and telecommunications commission crtc . this according to corus was because of high ongoing maintenance costs that neither they nor standard were willing to cover . 2 in april 2007 astral media and standard broadcasting announced that standard had agreed to a purchase offer by astral . on labour day weekend 2012 cjad as well as its sister stations in the montreal astral cluster moved from 1411 fort street to new facilities in the bell media radio building at rene levesque east and papineau . 1998 ice storm edit in 1998 all four of cjad s broadcast towers toppled during the ice storm . cjad s first attempt to get back on the air was to use ckgm s former 980 transmitter re tuned to the 800 frequency . this however turned out to be impossible as the 980 site was damaged by ice as well . the radio station then made arrangements to broadcast on cfmb s former 1410 transmitter but the signal was poor to the west . they then reached an agreement with chum limited to use their ckgm transmitter on 990 khz until new towers were erected . news edit a large part of cjad s daily programs are talk shows discussing local and international news as well as various other subjects . cjad broadcasts a news report every 30 minutes on local and major international news . this excludes certain overnight hours where newscasts are delivered every hour on the hour . traffic updates are delivered every 15 minutes . cjad newscasters are andrew peplowski and trudie mason in the mornings jason mayoff and richard deschamps in the afternoons kelly lapare and luciano pipia in the evenings with pipia also acting as weekend daytime anchor james foster overnight and richard dagenais andrew brennan and sean mckeogh on weekends . margoe edwards is also a frequent fill in at the anchor desk . longtime anchor and reporter tom armour retired in 2015 . 3 cjad reporters include shuyee lee andrew brennan and emily campbell . former reporters include patrick lejtenyi angelica montgomery tina tenneriello michel boyer natalie nanowski and taylor c. noakes . 4 sports edit cjad is the exclusive english radio broadcaster of the cfl s montreal alouettes . some game broadcasts are simulcast on sister station chom 97.7 fm . cjad was the longtime english radio home of the montreal canadiens until the 2010 11 season . in june 2010 it was announced that then sports talk rival ckgm will be the new english broadcaster through the 2017 18 season . in july 2012 bell media owners of ckgm announced that english language rights to the canadiens could return to cjad following its proposed acquisition of astral media if its conversion of ckgm to a french language sports station which would have been done to satisfy ownership limits preventing the merged company from owning both cjad and ckgm if they both broadcast in english were approved by the crtc . 5 6 on october 18 2012 the crtc rejected bell s proposal to acquire astral media ; since the application to convert ckgm into a french station was contingent on the approval of the astral merger it too was rejected . 7 on march 5 2012 it was announced that cjad will be the exclusive english language radio broadcaster of montreal impact for the next two years . 8 as of september 2013 ckgm provides the sports updates for cjad . rick moffat does the weekday morning sports mitch gallo does the weekday afternoon sports and amanda stein does the weekend morning sports all for cjad and tsn . transmitter edit cjad broadcasts with 50 000 watts in the daytime and 10 000 watts at night to avoid interfering with other stations using the 800 frequency such as the country formatted cjbq in belleville ontario the moribund chrc in quebec city which is approximately 250 miles 160 km away and has shut down in september 2012 and cklw in windsor ontario . current hosts edit the previous logo of cjad from 2007 2011 used until aaron rand returned to the station . during the standard radio era from 2002 2007 the words inside the red rectangles were in black . andrew carter tommy schnurmacher aaron rand barry morgan dave fisher dan delmar dave kaufman joey elias richard crouse marc saltzman dan laxer former edit gord martineau peter anthony holder references edit http www.cjad.com halloffame.aspx ckts to stop rebroadcasting cjad corus press release november 17 2006 http www.cjad.com cjad news 2015 05 02 long time cjad broadcaster tom armour retires http montrealgazette.com business local business tsn 690s elliott price abe hefter among bell media cuts in montreal canadian radio television and telecommunications commission 2012 07 10 . broadcasting notice of consultation crtc 2012 370 item 2 . retrieved 2012 07 10 . tsn radio 990 to become a francophone station . canadian press . retrieved 10 july 2012 . broadcasting decision crtc 2012 574 . crtc . retrieved 18 october 2012 . http www.impactmontreal.com en news 2012 03 montreal impact returns cjad 800 external links edit official website from mountain to the city a brief history of cjad cjad history canadian communications foundation cjad timeline of announcers query the rec s canadian station database for cjad query the fcc s am station database for cjad radio locator 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