OBSOLETE CONTEST DAY 4 WINNER: AM Radio

From Craig Poirier of Halifax:

“It first happened in 1989 when CBC Radio One’s Halifax, Nova Scotia’s station 860 CBH shut their AM transmitter off for good and adopted the new call letters CBHA on it’s new permanent home on the FM dial at 90.5 MHz.  It next happened in 2006 when Nova Scotia’s oldest commercial radio station 960 CHNS shut off their AM transmitter and switched to the FM band at 89.9 MHz.  Then in 2008, my personal favorite, 920 CJCH shut off their AM transmitter in favor of a new home on the FM band at 101.3 MHz.  Finally, in a day that I never thought I’d see, after almost 47 years of broadcasting the very last AM station in existence in Halifax, 780 CFDR [aka 780 Kixx Classic Country], shut their 50,000 watt transmitter off for good on Monday, July 27, 2009 at 10:00 Atlantic Time, changed ownership and their format and moved to a new home on the FM band at 92.9 MHz.  As a lifelong fan of AM radio listening, it really is hard to believe that there are no longer any local AM stations left to listen to in Halifax.  Unless you are a fan of DX’ing (i.e., distant reception listening, done primarily at night), AM radios have sadly become a combination of both useless and electrical paperweights in this part of the world.”