TSN 690 Montreal (CKGM) is an English-language AM radio station broadcasting from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On December 7, 1959, CKGM opened and started official transmission on September 4, 2012, on 690 kHz frequency. Bell Media owned and managed the station as well as its sister stations, CFCF DT, CJAD, CJFM FM, CHOM FM, CITE FM, CKMF FM, and CFJP DT. Formerly, it was affiliated with the sports radio network “The Team.”
It was one of three stations to continue airing sports programming after the network ceased operations in 2002 until it changed its name to TSN Radio in October 2011. Since May 2001, CKGM has been an all-sports station. Radio’s offices and studios are on René Lévesque Boulevard East in Downtown Montreal. Its transmitter is near Mercier. AM station is a non-directional clear-channel Class A station. It broadcasts at maximum power for Canadian AM stations, 50,000 watts.
It can be heard from Ottawa to Sherbrooke and across the border into New York State and Vermont in the daytime. At night, its signal reaches much of Eastern North America. Its transmission is also available on the HD3 subchannel of CITE-FM. Channel 985 of Bell Satellite TV carries CKGM nationwide. From 1970 until 1986, it was renowned as a legendary and significant Top 40/CHR radio station. The CBC’s flagship station in French, CBF, currently known as Ici Radio-Canada Première, was broadcast from Montreal’s AM 690 from 1941 until 1999.
Contact Details
Address: 1310 Greene Ave, Westmount, QC H3Z 2B2 Canada
Phone: (514) 931-4487
Email: live@tsn690.ca
Official Website: https://www.tsn.ca/radio/montreal-690
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TSN690Montreal
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TSN690
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