CKOT is an AM radio station licenced to Tillsonburg, Ontario. The station was licenced on April 26, 1955 and aired four days later. The station was owned by John B. Lamers, Sr., Ken Orton, and four other shareholders under the name of Tillsonburg Broadcasting Company, Limited. The transmitter and two 160-foot (49 m) high towers were located in Lot 16, Concession 2, of Middleton Township in Norfolk County. The station has been a daytimer (operatin...
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CKOT is an AM radio station licenced to Tillsonburg, Ontario. The station was licenced on April 26, 1955 and aired four days later. The station was owned by John B. Lamers, Sr., Ken Orton, and four other shareholders under the name of Tillsonburg Broadcasting Company, Limited. The transmitter and two 160-foot (49 m) high towers were located in Lot 16, Concession 2, of Middleton Township in Norfolk County. The station has been a daytimer (operating only during the day) for much of its existence. It is also the last remaining Canadian daytime-only station still in operation.
In 1958, the station was granted permission to increase to 1,000 watts of power (in the daytime only), usine one 165-foot (50 m) tower. John B. Lamers would become the sole owner of CKOT-AM when he bought out his partners four years later.
CKOT-AM gained a sister station in 1965, when CKOT-FM signed on. The FM station originally served as a simulcast/rebroadcast transmitter of CKOT-AM. CKOT-FM would eventually...
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