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On May 14, 1963, at 6:30 am, CHED switched to 630 kHz. Beginning in 1959, CHED aired a Top 40/CHR format. [1] Jerry Forbes ran the first 630 CHED Santas Anonymous in 1955. The charity provided 600 toys to children in its first year and is still run annually as of 2020. In the latest edition, the toy drive provided toys to over 20,000 children. [2]
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 630 kHz: 630 AM is a regional U.S. broadcast frequency. [ 1 ] 630 kHz is a Philippine clear-channel frequency used by NTC. DZMM share Class A status at 630 kHz and being defunctional because of legislative franchise lapsed
In August 2024, Corus announced that CHQT would close, and that CHED's branding and programming would move permanently to the 880 signal. Corus stated that CHQT's signal had better coverage than that of CHED; while both stations operated at a power of 50 kilowatts, the 880 AM transmitter is non-directional during the day whereas 630 was ...
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]
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.
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 ...
From 1 April 2005 until 2 January 2013, the program of Voice of Russia was transmitted from Cremlingen on 630 kHz. [5] [6] Switch-off was planned for 31 December 2012, but a technical fault caused transmissions to continue until 2 January 2013. [7] The last programme to be transmitted from this station was that of Deutschlandradio.
The 630 kHz frequency is perhaps best known as the longtime home of KDWB from 1959 until 1986. For almost two decades, KDWB was a heated rival of the original WDGY , located at 1130 kHz. When WDGY dropped its call letters in 1991 to become KFAN, KDWB's owner adopted the abandoned WDGY call sign for 630 kHz, where it remained until 2008.