CFNY-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102.1 FM. While the station's official city of license is Brampton, Ontario, it targets the entire Greater Toronto Area, with studios located at 228 Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, and its transmitter in the CN Tower. As of December 2007, the station holds a 3.8% share of its market area.
For some time in the 1980s, the station was free-format. This rarely translated into profits, however, an...
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CFNY-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102.1 FM. While the station's official city of license is Brampton, Ontario, it targets the entire Greater Toronto Area, with studios located at 228 Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, and its transmitter in the CN Tower. As of December 2007, the station holds a 3.8% share of its market area.
For some time in the 1980s, the station was free-format. This rarely translated into profits, however, and after being sold and re-sold several times to larger and larger media companies, the station now plays a conventional modern rock format with the branding 102.1 The Edge. The radio station is currently owned by Corus Entertainment.
The station's current program director is Ross Winters, who succeeded Alan Cross in September 2008 after Cross transferred to Corus' interactive media division, Splice Media.
CFNY originally started operating in 1961, as an FM rebroadcast of an AM station, CHIC. When two brothers named Leslie and Harry Allen Jr...
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