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CHKT is a Canada|Canadian radio station, airing at 1430 AM radio|AM in Toronto, Ontario. The station, owned by the Fairchild Group|Fairchild Radio service, airs Chinese language programming.

The station first aired in 1925 as AM 840 CKCL, owned by the Dominion Battery company. As with many radio stations in the early years of radio broadcasting, the station changed frequencies a number of times in its first years of operation. It settled on the permanent 580 frequency in 1931.

In 1945, the station was sold to Jack Kent Cooke's Toronto Broadcasting Co., and adopted the callsign CKEY. It was subsequently acquired by Shoreacres Broadcasting, a consortium that included Westinghouse and The Globe and Mail, in 1961, and changed its frequency to 590 in 1964. Also that year, CKEY adopted a "middle of the road" music format. Shoreacres, in turn, was acquired by Maclean-Hunter in 1966.

From 1970 to 1983, CKEY featured Charles Templeton and Pierre Berton on the commentary show Dialogue with Templeton also reading the morning news for several years. The station also had Stephen Lewis as a commentator in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

After several format adjustments, the station adopted a country music format in 1991, changing its callsign to CKYC. The CKEY callsign was subsequently picked up by a station in Fort Erie, Ontario|Fort Erie.

After Rogers Communications acquired Maclean-Hunter in 1994, CKYC was sold to Telemedia. Telemedia subsequently swapped CKYC's frequency with that of its sports outlet CJCL. CKYC subsequently aired only syndication|syndicated programming until it was acquired by Fairchild in 1997.

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Category:Radio stations in Toronto|HKT
Category:Chinese media in Canada

Last Modified:   2005-11-07