Given that AI just hacked into the Australian healthcare system during a data search, I'm willing to bet it's on track to eventually push the nuclear button...

The a.i was right about only 2 things.
Its owned by bell and it has a long history.
You realy have to teach it correct info.
What about trying to coppy and paste info from iheart?
That seems to somewhat work to teach CHATGPT and google's a.i gemini.
I've also saved info about radio stations in the personal info.
Still, it makes to many mistakes.
A.i's only good for a few things.
1: Music creation.
2: Fictional world building.
And 3: trying to teach it small things.

Just to correct the record, I'm told Dean Blundell did, in fact, do some occasional fill-in shows on 1010, over the course of several years. But he was far from a regular! How the bot came up with that fact while leaving out people who were on the air there for years is totally beyond me. 

Having said that, like anything else there are good AIs and bad ones.

Here’s what Chat GPT says, with a personalized final paragraph





**CFRB 1010** is one of the foundational stations in Toronto radio — and, in a sense, one of the stations on which the Canadian commercial-radio industry was built.

It signed on **February 19, 1927**, founded by Edward S. “Ted” Rogers Sr. The calls are traditionally expanded as **“Canada’s First Rogers Batteryless.”** Rogers had developed radio technology that could operate directly from household AC power rather than relying on batteries, and CFRB served partly as a showcase for that technology. Its transmitter was itself an important innovation: the station is described in Canadian broadcasting histories as the first broadcasting station powered entirely from AC mains. ([Broadcasting History][1])

### How it became a Toronto institution

CFRB wasn't originally at 1010. It moved through several frequencies — 1030, 960, 690 and 860 — before landing on **1010 kHz in 1948**. Today it operates at **50,000 watts**, the maximum AM power permitted in Canada, with its transmitter site in Clarkson, Mississauga. ([Broadcasting History][1])

For decades, CFRB was essentially **Toronto's full-service commercial radio station**: news, personalities, information, entertainment and talk. One extraordinary example of its stability was **Wally Crouter**, who joined CFRB in 1946 and hosted mornings until 1996 — exactly **50 years at the station**. ([Wikipedia][2])

That's important to understanding the CFRB brand. Long before "news/talk" became a narrowly defined format, CFRB's proposition was closer to *Toronto wakes up, works and drives home with us*. The personalities were at least as important as the information.

### The ownership story is interesting

CFRB also sits at the beginning of the Rogers story, although it **isn't a Rogers station today**.

After Edward Rogers Sr. died in 1939, control eventually passed through **Standard Radio/Standard Broadcasting** and Argus. The Black interests acquired Argus in 1978; **Slaight Broadcasting bought Standard in 1985**; **Astral acquired Standard in 2007**; and **Bell acquired CFRB through its purchase of Astral in 2013**. ([Broadcasting History][1])

There's a great historical irony there: Ted Rogers Jr. reportedly wanted badly to buy back the station his father had founded, but never managed to do it. ([Wikipedia][2])

### CFRB today

The station is now owned by [Bell Media](https://www.bellmedia.ca/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) and branded **Newstalk 1010**, with a news/talk format. ([Wikipedia][2])

From a radio-programming perspective, what's particularly interesting about CFRB is its evolution. It went from a **mass-appeal personality/full-service station** to a much more explicitly **spoken-word news/talk product**. Yet the heritage value of "CFRB" is enormous: the calls have existed for almost a century and connect modern Newstalk 1010 directly to the earliest days of commercial broadcasting in Toronto.

Given your radio background, there's an even more interesting way to look at it: **CFRB as a case study in how a dominant heritage AM brand survived the transition from full-service radio → personality talk → modern news/talk.** I can walk you through its major programming eras, personalities, ratings/competitive position and how the station changed under Standard, Astral and Bell.

[1]: https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-city-of-toronto/cfrb-am/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "CFRB-AM – The History of Canadian Broadcasting"
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFRB?utm_source=chatgpt.com "CFRB"

The note about contradictory broadcast times would be because Bell’s websites display schedules based on the visitor’s location rather than local broadcast times.

RadioActive wrote:

=12px“CFRB is a commercial radio station based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It currently broadcasts on 97.7 FM and is owned by Bell Media. 

Maybe your AI just likes listening to CHOM.