A little station history.

Ontario
CING-FM Burlington, Shaw Radio Ltd.

1976
CING-FM began broadcasting on September 23. The station was owned by
Burlington Broadcasting Inc. Studios were at 4144 South Service Road. CING
operated on 107.9 MHz with 100,000 (50,000 horizontal & 50,000 vertical)
watts effective radiated power. Antenna height - 500 feet or 152.4 metres.

1978
September - FM 108 begins playing oldies, on the all-night show.

1980
CING-FM adopts an oldies and nostalgia format as FM 108.

1981
FM 108 began playing The Music of Your Life from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with
oldies through the rest of the day.

1989
March 3 - CING-FM began using the CRN satellite service overnight.

1991
September 1 - CING-FM changed to a dance format, as DANCE 108.

1997
On April 9, the CRTC approved a power decrease for CING-FM, from 50,000 to
26,100 watts, and a relocation of the transmitting facilities to a new site
approximately eight kilometres northwest of Burlington and to increase the
antenna height.
On June 10, the CRTC approved an application by Shaw Radio Ltd., and a group
of individual shareholders to purchase Burlington Broadcasting Inc
(CING-FM).

Later in the year, Shaw acquired 100% of CING-FM.

"Tony Meloche" wrote in message
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grumpus wrote:

Hi all. This past Spring I put my Cambridge Soundworks Model 88 table
radio, designed by the late Henry Kloss, through its paces on the FM
broadcast band. For the duration of the test, the radio sat in one
place in a ground floor room. The only antenna used was a cheap $2
plastic dipole tacked haphazardly to the wall; it too remained in one
place throughout the test. Here are my results


(4 part log snipped).



Good post, Grumpus. It appears that the radio has excellent
sensitivity with a very conventional antenna, and that your maximum
distance reception was about 120 miles - that would be top-end for any
good FM receiver with a dipole.


It also appears that CING, Burlington (Hamilton) is the old CKDS
that I used to listen to all day when I was working in Western New York
during the summers of 1970, '71 and '72.


I would be more interested in how many of those stations past the 90
mile range you were getting in good, listenable stereo. In "the old
days", any good, two-channel stereo image at a distance of 100 miles was
considered to be top-flight FM DX.

Tony


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