CKAC is a radio station based in Montreal, Quebec. It is famous for being the first French language radio station in the world. It broadcasts at 730 on the AM dial. 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. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ...

In recent years, the station's future has been uncertain due to the constant decline of AM radio. Astral Media, CKAC's owner, had been looking for prospective buyers of its AM network since shortly after becoming its full proprietor in 2002.

A bid by the media arm of Quebecor was blocked by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada's broadcasting regulatory body, over concentration issues in 2003. A consortium later offered to buy the station but withdrew its offer. Quebecor (written without an accent on the first e, even in French) is a Quebec-based company with two main spheres of activity: Quebecor World is the largest commercial printing company in the world, with 39 000 employees around the world. ... 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. ...

In 2004, Corus Entertainment offered to buy CKAC and other Astral AM stations for $11 million and a string of FM stations. Corus, which already owns a talk radio station on the FM dial, planned to turn CKAC into a sports and health station and dismantle the station's highly regarded newsroom.

The CRTC approved the transaction in January 2005 on the condition that Corus provide more local programming than it had first planned. The purchase went ahead despite criticism by media watchdogs who said the Corus takeover meant condemning CKAC to irrelevance and to a slow death.

An appeal to the Canadian government to stop the deal in April 2005 proved unsuccessful.

The station's newsroom officially closed at noon, May 30, 2005.

CKAK first broadcasted in conjuntion with McGill university in 1920's and used it as an umbrella organization