‘Lead the charge:’ 980 CFPL celebrates 100-year milestone
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Corus Radio 980 CFPL is thrilled to celebrate its centennial anniversary on Sept. 30, 2022, at the London Knight’s home opening game.
For years and years, Corus Radio 980 CFPL has been informing, entertaining and supporting London, Ont., listeners. The news talk radio station says they’re thrilled to celebrate their centennial anniversary on Friday.
Dan Brock, president of the London and Middlesex Historical Society, tells Global News that with 100 years on air, 980 CFPL is one of the oldest radio stations across the country.
“It’s said to be the second radio station to be licensed in Canada and it started officially broadcasting on Sept. 30, 1922,” he said.
Known at that time as CJGC, it was initially owned by the London Free Press.
Referencing the death of Sir Adam Beck, a hydroelectricity advocate who founded the Electric Power Commission of Ontario and former mayor and MPP of London, Brock said the radio station had some important ties to the funeral following Beck’s death on Aug. 15, 1925.
“What is notable … is the funeral service, which was on Aug. 17, was the first non-studio radio broadcast in London and possibly in all of Canada,” Brock explained, calling Beck “one of the most important people in London” at the time.
“If it were not for the work that he did, it would have been a long time before we had the whole hydro system in Ontario and to make it a public for all of Ontario is a tremendous contribution to the province,” he said of Beck’s accomplishments.
Brock said that CJGC was sold to the Essex Broadcasters Limited in Windsor, Ont., in 1933.
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