The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / The new CFCO-FM Chatham-Kent signal on 91.3 FM

**Posted by Marc1178** June 11, 2025 5:35 pm

It sounds like it will begin shortly. Right now the 89.3 / 94.3 / 95.1 transmission is temporarily shut off. The online stream is still on, and 630 AM could stay on for up to three more months. CFCO also will no longer need to use 92.9 FM in Chatham anymore.

**Posted by turkeytop** June 11, 2025 9:20 pm

=12px"CFCO also will no longer need to use 92.9 FM in Chatham anymore."

Why woulds they have needed to anyway. Their antenna array was only about 5 miles from town and the terrain there is flat. Not many tall structures in the town.

**Posted by RadioAaron** June 11, 2025 9:31 pm

turkeytop wrote:
=12px"CFCO also will no longer need to use 92.9 FM in Chatham anymore."

Why woulds they have needed to anyway. Their antenna array was only about 5 miles from town and the terrain there is flat. Not many tall structures in the town.

Because otherwise they were only on AM, and nobody under 60 is going to listen to music on AM radio.

Last edited by RadioAaron (June 11, 2025 9:39 pm)

**Posted by Marc1178** June 11, 2025 10:41 pm

The cheaper cost of using a four in one master antenna is the main reason for this decision. Blackburn also has Country music listeners covered to the west with CJWF on both 95.9 & 92.7, and to the north with CHOK. This means that using 630 AM for too much longer would not be serving them well.

I cannot verify if the new 91.3 has begun yet in my location. That's because WRSX from Port Huron is also on
91.3 FM.

**Posted by gch** June 12, 2025 8:25 am

I will miss 630. I have listened to it since about 1963, having lived in Michigan and then in Chatham for 12 years from 1973-1985.

They have served the community well over all the years.........Last summer I heard them quite clearly in Dayton OH
They have had many personalities on the air, including Dave Hodge (of Hockey Night in Canada)..and Pete McGarvey (later of CKEY)

When driving west from TO, it is easy to pick them up by Kitchener (they were listenable in To before 640 came on)

The crowded FM band is hard to find a spot on but was there not something better than 91.3? I guess not, but will it be much better than their present 92.9

(things are so crowded on the FM band for example 92.7 is used in Leamington, Port Huron, Ann Arbor, and one Detroit station WQLV used it as a repeater but since has switched to another frequency)

They will be interfered with, from Port Huron, and so the range is so limited.

Another example of these unusual new frequencies is long time AM CJCS Stratford, which now at 107.1 is
pretty well limited by Q107.
It's hard to pick it up on the 401 going west.

As I say, I'll miss 630, but I guess this is the new reality....I see some of the big AMs in US such as WBBM and WFAN have FM repeaters, but have not abandoned AM As a relatively new member (but long time reader) I really enjoy SOWNY

**Posted by RadioActive** June 12, 2025 8:28 am

Glad you found us gch. Hope to hear from you more often!