CINW is an English language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A radio station is a sound broadcasting service. ... Montreal courthouse in 1880. ... The first European explorer of what is now Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore and sailed into the St. ...

Owned and operated by Corus Entertainment, it broadcasts on 940 kHz with a power of 50,000 watts as a clear channel (class A) station, using a slightly directional antenna solely for the purpose of improving reception in downtown Montreal. Corus Entertainment (TSX: CJR.NV.B) NYSE: CJR is a Canadian entertainment company, headquarted in Calgary, Alberta, which owns television networks, digital music channels and 50 radio stations across Canada. ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... The watt (symbol: W) is the SI derived unit of power. ... Clear channel stations are AM radio stations that are designated as such so that only one or two 50,000 watt powerhouses operate at night on each designated frequency, covering a wide area via sky wave propagation. ... A directional antenna is an antenna which transmits or receives maximum power in a particular direction. ...

The station currently has a news/talk format and identifies itself as "The New 940 Montreal". Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ...

CINW started as XWA on December 1, 1919. Experimental broadcasts continued from that date until the station began regular programming on May 20, 1920. As such, it is generally believed that it is the first radio station in the entire world, although other stations, most notably KDKA and WWJ, have made similar claims. Call letters changed to CFCF on November 4, 1920. While the meaning of that call sign has never been officially confirmed, it is generally believed to be "Canada's First, Canada's Finest". KDKA AM is a U.S. class A clear channel AM radio station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that operates on 1020 kHz. ... WWJ (Newsradio 950) is Detroit, Michigans only 24-hour all-news radio station. ... In radio (including television), a callsign or call sign (also call letters) is a unique designation for amateur, broadcast, and sometimes military radio use, as well as for broadcast television. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid...

After numerous changes of frequency, and a three-year period in which it shared time with CKAC on 730 kHz from 1925 to 1928, CFCF landed on 600 kHz in 1933 and stayed on that frequency until 1999. Sine waves of various frequencies; the lower waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... CKAC is a radio station based in Montreal, Quebec. ...

CFCF changed its format from full service to Adult Standards in 1986. Call letters changed to CIQC in September 1991 as the station, and its FM sister CFQR-FM, were sold to Mount Royal Broadcasting (later Métromédia), with the TV station keeping the CFCF-TV callsign, and at the same time the station started an ill-fated country music format, which lasted only until March 1993, at which point the station switched to news/talk programming. CFQR-FM is an English language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. ... Country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music. ...

CIQC received permission from the CRTC to switch to 940 kHz and increase power from 10,000 watts (daytime) and 5,000 watts (nighttime) to 50,000 watts fulltime in June 1999; these technical changes were implemented on December 14, 1999, and call letters were changed at the same time to the current CINW, to match the new all-news format introduced that same day. Interestingly, the station initially wanted to use calls CKNN for its new format and frequency, but was denied permission after they used illegally these call letters during testing on 940 kHz in the weeks preceding the frequency change. The 600 kHz transmitter was shut down on Easter Sunday, 2000 (April 23), after four months of simulcast. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ... All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of news. ... Simulcast is a contraction of simultaneous broadcast, and refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium at the same time. ...

CINW dumped its all-news format in September 2005 to pave the way for its current news/talk programming.