I believe CKCY was at 1400, but then moved to 920 in the early 60s,  out of "salt" ste marie.  The station operated until pelmorex shut it down '92-ish

Also, the Barrie station is CFJB, not CJFB as listed.

Here's what I found about CFJB AM 1090 onbroadcasting-history.ca It's now CIAO

Fenwick Job applied for an AM licence at Brampton, operating on 1090 kHz with power of 250 watts. The application was approved by the CBC. Job said his station would be a strictly local operation with news and music, running seven days a week - to be operational in mid-December. Fen Job was the former national sales manager of Toronto's CKEY and had recently taken over the weekly newspaper - The Peel Gazette. In the past, he had also worked for WHLS in Port Huron, Michigan, and Montreal's CJAD. Job would be station manager (managing director) and the majority shareholder. Deryk Upton was named commercial manager and Ross Millard, program director. Announcers would include Paul Delaney and Stan Larke.CFJB began broadcasting on December 23. It operated on a frequency of 1090 kHz with a daytime power of 250 watts (non-directional). CFJB was a daytime only station, the second one in Canada after CHUM Toronto. The single 146 foot tower was located on a site on part of the east half of Lot 10, Concession 2, west of Hurontario Street, Chingacousy Township, Peel County. CFJB was an independent station with no network affiliation. The licensee name was Broadcasting Station CFJB Ltd. The "FJ" in the call sign was for Fen Job, and the B was for Brampton.

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Hey RA. Here are a few more details to fill in the blanks. CKEY moved to 590 in Jan 1964. I have a Silver Dollar Survey for proof. CJBC went all French sometime in 1964 as well. CKFH moved to 1430 in 1960. CKGR at 1110 was in Galt. In 1956, they became CFTJ and moved to 1320 in the mid 70's then to 960 as CIAM. Now they are at 107.5 as CJDV DaveFM.  There was a CKCR at 1490 in Kitchener from 1941-76. Then the move to 570 and call letter flips. CKTB went to 610 in 1959 and CJRN went from 1600 to 710 in 1971. I remember getting two radios side by side to listen to the switch

The only thing I can figure about WJR-FM is that in those days, while the Star was a Toronto paper, it was sold in places like London, Ont. (although they don't list CFPL, which first went on air in 1922.) So maybe they were catering to fringe listeners who could pull in the signal. But you're right. I can see why they might have included WJR-AM but listing their FM signal on the guide is kind of odd.   

What this also reminds us is that the Star - and other papers - used to have a large section with daily radio listings. These days, if radio even gets mentioned in a story, it's a noteworthy event.

Ahhhh...Those were the days.  Still a few steam locomotives and more level crossings than one might imagine.  A huge break of undeveloped green space between Toronto and Thornhill...let alone further up Highway 11 to Richmond Hill...Uncle Byng on CJBC...Walter Bowles too.  The Everly Brothers and Elvis. Perry Como and Tommy Edwards.  The Champs, Conway Twitty, Ricky Nelson, Jimmy Clanton Bobby Day and Chuck Berry were all big then...but really?  Only On CHUM.  That would be See, Aytch, You, Emm by the way.  And I was doin' 'time' gettin' bored to death in school.

Radio was a dream then.  It all came true.  Then there's now.  Never had THIS specific nightmare.  Who knew?  [that nobody would know.]

Don wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

-What was CKGR at 1110?

Oshawa. What's now CKDO, I think.
 

Oshawa was never CKGR.  It was in fact CKDO; which it has returned to today.  My old boss the late Gord Garrison changed it to CKLB.  LB for Lakeland Broadcasting.  George Grant then bought it and changed the call letters to CKAR. The POWER group; then bought it and changed it back to CKDO; which lives on today.  Then Corus bought it and finally Durham Radio; with owner Doug Kirk.  He now has three stations in Oshawa and I understand the country station KX96 does really, really well.

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I knew.  I had to deliver them.  Add that on to the load of daily papers and it made for a VERY heavy day...PLUS there was also the collecting for them.  Then came the Canadian Weekly insert on Saturdays...for free...and the Star Weekly became redundant and disappeared.  I guess that was the Star 'localizing'.  I think I delivered the Star for 3 1/2 years before switching over to the Globe and Mail when I started high school.  I played football.  Couldn't do that AND deliver afternoon papers.