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According to the 1976 B.B.M. Weekly Reach survey, CFRN was the 4th-most-listened-to radio station in Edmonton. [ 19 ] The CFRN stations were sold in 1988 to Kitchener, Ontario -based Electrohome Limited for $51.2 million; [ 20 ] a 91-year-old Rice rejected offers from several western groups and selected Electrohome as the purchaser. [ 21 ]
For many years the CJCA broadcast studios were located on the 4th floor of the Birks building in downtown Edmonton. On top of the Birks building was a huge billboard of a tiger wearing sunglasses—CJCA was also known as Tiger Radio. CJCA was also home for the Edmonton Eskimos and Edmonton Trappers. Their games were broadcast live on CJCA for ...
The 42nd Grey Cup football game was played on November 27, 1954, before a full house (27,321 in attendance) at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1]The underdog Edmonton Eskimos won a contest over the Montreal Alouettes 26–25.
Rod Phillips (born September 9, 1941) is a retired Canadian radio broadcaster for 630 CHED in Edmonton, Alberta.Phillips is best known as the play-by-play man of the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers from 1973 to 2011, succeeding longtime Edmonton Eskimos broadcaster Bryan Hall despite having no experience in the field.
After 45 years of play-by-play for Edmonton Eskimos games, Hall retired in 2009. [7] During his play-by-play career, he also did play-by-play for the Edmonton Oilers, Edmonton Oil Kings, and Edmonton Flyers. [8] The media centre, The Bryan Hall Media Centre, in Commonwealth Stadium was named after Hall when he retired in 2009. [9]
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The 84th Grey Cup, also known as The Snow Bowl, was the 1996 Grey Cup Canadian Football League championship game played between the Toronto Argonauts and the Edmonton Eskimos at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario. The Argonauts won the game by a score of 43–37 in controversial fashion. [1]
Following the collapse of the Aboriginal Voices Radio Network (which broadcast on 89.3 MHz in Edmonton as CKAV-FM-4), the CRTC pursued new applicants for indigenous radio stations to fill its frequencies. The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society, owner of the Edmonton-based CFWE radio network, was granted licenses in Calgary and Edmonton. [1]