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CHED (880 kHz) is a radio station licensed to Edmonton, Alberta. Owned by Corus Entertainment , it broadcasts a news / talk format, and first signed on in 1954. Its studios are located on 84th Street and Roper Road in Edmonton, while its transmitters are located southeast of Edmonton.
Ed Mason (July 1946 – September 28, 2021), nicknamed Uncle Eddie or Uncle Ed, was a Canadian newscaster who worked for 630 CHED in Edmonton, Alberta as a morning drive news and police beat presenter. Mason began his radio career in 1963 with CFAR in Flin Flon, Manitoba, hosting Club 590, a teen show, where his father, Eric worked. [1]
After attending the Columbia School of Broadcasting, he started his broadcasting career at CKNL in Fort St. John, British Columbia [3] in 1970, but left one year later to work for 630 CHED in Edmonton, Alberta, where he eventually became news director of the Corus radio stations in Edmonton, including CHED, iNews 880, 925 Fresh FM and CISN ...
Rod Phillips (born September 9, 1941) is a retired Canadian radio broadcaster for 630 CHED in Edmonton, Alberta.Phillips is best known as the play-by-play man of the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers from 1973 to 2011, succeeding longtime Edmonton Eskimos broadcaster Bryan Hall despite having no experience in the field.
At the suggestion of a columnist for the Edmonton Journal, Hall also took up a vacant sportscaster job at CHED, which he held from 1955 to 1962. In 1962, Hall moved to Toronto to take up a job covering sports with CHUM , but moved back to Edmonton 3 years later, this time, back to CJCA, where he did play-by-play for the CFL 's Edmonton Eskimos ...
CHQT was an AM radio station in Edmonton, Alberta.Owned by Corus Entertainment, the station first launched in August 1965.In June 2008, after having broadcast various music-based formats, CHQT flipped to an all-news format as a counterpart to sister news/talk station CHED.
From 1996 to 2008 Christopher worked as a news reporter for CHED, an Edmonton-based talk radio station. [1] In 2001 he taught a course in journalism at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, [6] and in the same year wrote a story for the Pakistan News Service about how the War in Afghanistan was perceived by the Canadian news community ...
That month, Corus had also begun cuts at Global News, [86] and shut down the all-news/all-traffic formats at its Edmonton and Vancouver AM stations 880 CHQT and 730 CKGO (with the stations becoming interim simulcasts of their parent news/talk stations 630 CHED and 980 CKNW pending further developments).