CHQR is a radio station

Radio station

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 owned by Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment

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 operating in Calgary, Alberta

Alberta

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. Broadcasting at AM 770, it airs talk radio

Talk radio

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 programming. With the exception of one show, all of CHQR's weekday programming is produced in-house. CHQR is also the exclusive radio voice of the Calgary Stampeders

Calgary Stampeders

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.

History

The station originally began broadcasting at 810 AM in 1964 and received approval to move to its current frequency in 1985.

On November 9, 2011, Corus Entertainment Inc., on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary CKIK-FM Limited applied to the CRTC to add an FM transmitter to serve Calgary on the frequency 106.9 MHz to rebroadcast the programming of CHQR 770.

Programs and Hosts

• The Morning News with Bruce Kenyon (weekdays 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM)
• Rutherford (hosted by 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...
  
   and simulcast to CHED Edmonton, weekdays 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM)
• Today So Far with Wayne Nelson (weekdays 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM)
• Adler Online (hosted by 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...
  
   and CHQR's only non-locally based weekday show, weekdays 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM)
• Calgary Today with Angela Kokott (weekdays 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM)
• CHQR Sportstalk with Mark Stephen and Jock Wilson (weekdays 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM )
• The Rob Breakenridge Show (Simulcast to CHED
  CHED (AM)
  CHED is a talk radio station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, broadcasting at 630 kHz on the AM dial and is owned by Corus Entertainment.The station originally began broadcasting at 1080 AM in 1954, until it moved to its current frequency in 1965....
  
   Edmonton 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM)
• Those Old Radio Shows (hosted by Dan Gavin, daily from 11:00 PM to 1:00 AM)
• Coast to Coast AM
  Coast to Coast AM
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   (daily from 1:00 AM to 5:00 AM)

External links

• AM 770 CHQR
• CHQR history at Canadian Communications Foundation
  Canadian Communications Foundation
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