Lists of radio stations in North America
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Canada

Canada has approximately 2,000 originating radio stations, not including rebroadcast transmitters. National radio networks include CBC Radio One
CBC Radio One
CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial free and offers both local and national programming...

, CBC Radio 2, Première Chaîne, Espace musique
Espace musique
Espace musique is the French-language music radio service of Canada's national public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...

 and Aboriginal Voices
Aboriginal Voices
Aboriginal Voices Radio Network is a Canadian national radio network with licensed radio stations in nine Canadian metropolitan areas, all which are licensed under the calls of Toronto flagship station CKAV-FM...

. Major ownership groups include Standard(Astral)
Standard Broadcasting
Slaight Communications is a Canadian radio broadcasting company. The company was first formed as Slaight Broadcasting in 1971, when owner J. Allan Slaight acquired CFGM in Richmond Hill...

, Astral
Astral Media
Astral Media Inc. is a Canadian media corporation. It is Canada's largest radio broadcaster with 83 radio stations in eight provinces, and is a major player in premium and specialty television in Canada, including The Movie Network, Super Écran, Family, Teletoon, Canal D, Canal Vie, VRAK.TV,...

, CHUM(CTV Globe)
CHUM Limited
CHUM Limited was a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1945 to 2007. Immediately prior to its acquisition, it held full or joint control of two Canadian television systems — Citytv and A-Channel  — comprising 11 local stations, and one CBC Television affiliate, one...

, Corus
Corus Entertainment
Corus Entertainment Inc. is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment conglomerate.Corus is a leading Canadian specialty television and radio producer, with additional assets in pay television, advertising services, television broadcasting, children's book publishing and children's...

, Rogers
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, home phone and internet with additional telecommunications and mass media assets...

, Rawlco
Rawlco Communications
Rawlco Radio Ltd. is a Canadian media company. The company is the sole proprietor of thirteen radio stations in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the majority partner in Northwestern Radio Partnership, which owns four other stations in Saskatchewan...

, CTV Globe,and Newcap
Newcap Broadcasting
Newfoundland Capital Corporation Limited is a major Canadian broadcasting company, majority-owned by Harold R. Steele. Newfoundland Capital is the parent company of Newcap Inc. . It is currently the number two private-sector radio broadcaster in Canada, just behind Astral Media...

.

See also List of radio stations in Canada.

United States

As of August 2007, the FCC
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...

 had licensed 4779 AM
AM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. AM was the first method of impressing sound on a radio signal and is still widely used today. Commercial and public AM broadcasting is carried out in the medium wave band world wide, and on long wave and short wave...

 stations and 9159 FM
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...

 stations (6279 commercial and 2880 educational).
  • Sortable list of sports radio stations in the United States

Mexico


Central America


The Caribbean


See also


External links

  • FMLIST is a non-commercial Online database of FM stations, including bandscan and logbook tool (FMINFO/myFM)
  • FMSCAN reception prediction of FM, TV, MW, SW stations (also use the expert options for better results)
  • CoolPanama.com An extended list of more than 75 online streaming radio stations from Panama
  • MWLIST worldwide database of MW and LW stations
  • Online Radio Stations - A Web Radio Tuner containing a comprehensive list of over 50.000 radio stations
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