CHED is a talk radio

Talk radio

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 station in Edmonton

Edmonton

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, Alberta

Alberta

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, Canada

Canada

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, broadcasting at 630 kHz on the AM

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 dial and is owned by Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment

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The station originally began broadcasting at 1080 AM in 1954, until it moved to its current frequency in 1965.

Although primarily concerned with talk and news programming, CHED is also the voice of the NHL Edmonton Oilers

Edmonton Oilers

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 and CFL

Canadian Football League

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 Edmonton Eskimos

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. In the late evenings it re-broadcasts older radio drama

Radio drama

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Some of the shows include:

• The Charles Adler Show with Charles Adler
  Charles Adler (broadcaster)
  Charles Adler is a Hungarian-born Canadian broadcaster who, when he was a child, was smuggled in a backpack out of Hungary by his father during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Charles grew up in Montreal, where he started his broadcast career while attending McGill University...
  
   - weekdays 1:00 p.m. (Mountain Standard Time)
• Rutherford with Dave Rutherford
  Dave Rutherford
  Dave Rutherford is a Canadian conservative political talk show host. His daily radio show, Rutherford, was previously nationally syndicated in Canada and was the first Canadian radio talk program to be simulcast on television, but now airs from 9am-12pm daily only in Alberta on AM770 CHQR and 630...
  
   - weekdays 9:00 a.m. (MT)
• The 630 CHED Afternoon News with Andrew Grose & Lesley Primeau weekdays - 3 p.m. (MT)
• Inside Sports with Dan Tencer - weeknights 6:00 p.m. (MT)
• The Rob Breakenridge Show - weeknights 9:00PM – 11:00PM
• Those Old Radio Shows hosted by Dan Gavin - weeknights 11:00 p.m. (MT)
• The Inside Story with Michelle Boden - Mondays 1:00 p.m. (MT)
• Cop Talk hosted by 2 members of the Edmonton Police Service - Saturday afternoon 4:00 p.m. (MT)

For a significant portion of its history, CHED was Edmonton's (and North America's) most successful Top 40 station having a staggering 40% share of the local listening audience, but with the arrival of FM radio, it lost its listenership and moved to an all-talk format.

CHED is currently the most listened to radio station in Edmonton.

External links

• AM 630 CHED
• CHED history at Canadian Communications Foundation
  Canadian Communications Foundation
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