Rogers' The Fan 590 is running beaucoup promos on Monday noting it's been 25 years to the day since they started as Toronto's first all sports station. Of course, Rogers didn't own them at the time (it was still in the hands of Telemedia, IIRC) and it wasn't at 590 either.

The Fan 1430 benefited from the Blue Jays runs to the World Series, but the best thing that ever happened to the place was switching to the vastly superior 590 frequency. How big a problem was that old signal? In a wonderful article about CJCL's attempt at a hybrid talk-music station in the early 80s, former executive Leslie Sole recalls what a detriment 1430 turned out to be.

"We couldn’t get our signal fixed on Toronto Island because it would kill exotic plants created by poor grounding and U of T botanists wouldn’t hear of us cutting down the mutant plants. Owner Foster Hewitt had given up on grounding years before because the copper kept getting stolen. So about 25,000 watts was going straight into the earth."

Anyway, the station is spending an otherwise quiet Labour Day looking back. Worth a listen if you like old radio reminiscences.