CHML

CHML (900 AM) was a commercial radio station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, owned by Corus Entertainment.

Its signal was oriented largely west-northwest to east-southeast, covering the Niagara Peninsula and Western New York.

Some of Canada's best-known broadcasters held the mic at CHML, including Tom Cherington, Paul Hanover, Roy Green, Bill Kelly and Scott Thompson.

James Hughson was preaching a sermon on Prohibition, a controversial plan to end sales of liquor.

[2] The original owner of CHML was the Maple Leaf Radio Company, operated by George H. Lees.

[8] The station aired a middle of the road (MOR) format of popular adult music, news and information.

Hamilton's mayor gave a brief talk, and then a series of local artists performed live from the new station's studios.

[3] Throughout CHML's early years, the station's programming was a combination of music, news, sports and stock market reports, and religious sermons from area clergy.

[16] One of CHML's best-known sportscasters was Norm Marshall, who began doing play-by-play on radio in the mid-1940s, and later expanded his role to cover sports on local television station CHCH-TV; he also did some work for the CBC.

[20] Allen, who also wrote and broadcast editorials about current issues, later became a news and traffic reporter, and spent several decades as a sportscaster for CHML.

He spent a total of 37 years on air at CHML, before being reassigned to an off-air position as Director of Public Relations in 1982.

He had formerly worked in radio in Toronto, and subsequently spent a total of 20 years at CHML, doing a popular morning show called the "Brat Pack".

CHML continued to air its long-running Tiger-Cats postgame show, The 5th Quarter, as an unofficial production; it also joined the Buffalo Bills Radio Network in 2016.

[32] At noon, an unidentified male Corus executive interrupted the automated feed to issue a 25-second statement announcing the station's shutdown and thanking its advertisers and listeners.

[32] Corus cited "years of financial loss" and "the shift of advertising revenues to unregulated foreign platforms" as primary reasons for closing CHML, which came as part of a broader cost-cutting effort at the company.

[2][33] Corus moved the Tiger-Cats broadcasts to sister station CJXY-FM, as well as airing on affiliates CJOY in Guelph and Rogers Media-owned CKGL in Kitchener.