CJCL

CJCL

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Toronto, Ontario
Broadcast area	Toronto, Ontario
Frequency	590 kHz (AM)
Branding	The Fan 590
Programming
Format	sports
Ownership
Owner	Rogers Communications
History
First air date	1951
Former call signs	CKFH
Links
Website	The Fan 590

CJCL is a Canadian sports radio station in Toronto, Ontario. Airing at 590 on the AM radio dial, the station uses the on-air brand The Fan 590. Programming on the station includes Toronto Blue Jays baseball, Toronto Raptors basketball, Toronto Argonauts football and various sports talk shows during the day and ESPN Radio overnight. This station is owned and operated by Rogers Communications.

Regular Weekday Lineup

• Morning Scoreboard, with Rick Ralph, 5:30-6 a.m.
• The Morning Show, with Gord Stellick and Don Landry, 6-9 a.m.
• The Bullpen, with Mike Hogan, 9 a.m. - noon
• Hockey Central (simulcast on Rogers Sportsnet), 12-1 p.m.
• The Chuck Swirsky Show, with Chuck Swirsky, 1-4 p.m.
• Prime Time Sports, with Bob McCown (simulcast on Rogers Sportsnet) , 4-7 p.m.
• Late Night, with Norm Rumack, 11 p.m. - 2 a.m.
• ESPN Radio, 2-5:30 a.m.

Sports play-by-play

• Toronto Blue Jays+
• Toronto Raptors+
• Toronto Argonauts+
• Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio (Sunday nights & Playoffs)
• NFL on Westwood One
• English Premier League (Saturday mornings)
• Buffalo Bills (when not conflicting with any other sporting event)

+-If any of these games conflicted with one another, the Fan would carry one of the games while the other would be broadcast on 610 CKTB

History

The station first aired in 1951 as AM 1400 CKFH, a news and sports station owned by legendary Canadian broadcaster Foster Hewitt. It moved to AM 1430 in 1960, and began playing Top 40 music in 1966. In 1975, the station switched to a country music format.

The station was subsequently sold to Telemedia in 1981, adopting its current callsign and switching to an adult contemporary format. In 1983, the station briefly adopted talk radio programming, but returned to its music format within a few months. The station subsequently adopted an oldies format in 1989, and switched to its current sports programming in 1992.

In 1994, Telemedia acquired CKYC from Rogers Communications. In 1995, Telemedia swapped the stations' frequencies, moving CJCL to its current 590 and giving CKYC the old 1430 frequency.

CJCL was itself acquired by Rogers Communications in 2002.

On-Air Personalities

• Don Landry
• Gord Stellick
• Mike Hogan
• Chuck Swirsky
• Bob McCown
• Stephen Brunt
• Norm Rumack
• Roger Lajoie
• Mike Wilner
• Barb DiGiulio
• Eric Smith
• Paul Jones (Raptors)
• Dan Dunleavy
• Rick Ralph
• Nigel Reed
• Dave Cadeau
• Cara Graham
• Howard Berger
• Doug Farraway
• Lindsay O'Connor
• Angelo Viola
• Reno Viola
• David Grossman
• Ben Ennis
• Jason Magder
• Alex Seixeiro
• Zack Cooper
• Sara Buchan
• Andrew Nie
• Jerry Howarth (Blue Jays)
• Alan Ashby (Blue Jays)
• Tim Langton
• Peter Irvine
• Adrion Smith (Argonauts)
• Pete Martin (Argonauts)
• Anthony Totera
• Luke Wileman

External links

• Official Site