This is a list of defunct radio stations in Canada. Note: These stations have ceased operations. Stations which have changed frequencies, such as moving from the AM to the FM band, are not listed.
| Call sign | City of License | Frequency | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alberta | ||||
| 1060 AM | Ceased operations on June 14, 2023 | |||
| 1260 AM | Ceased operations on June 14, 2023 | |||
| 93.1 FM | 2000-2012. Semi-repeater of CHIM-FM Timmins, Ontario; license revoked due to regulatory non-compliance of originating station in 2012. | |||
| CJMH | 1460 AM | Formerly owned by Monarch Broadcasting Ltd., an affiliate with the CBC, the station ceased operation in the 1990s and was replaced by an FM repeater for CBC-owned CBR Calgary. | ||
British Columbia | ||||
| 103.5 FM | Licence revoked in 2014. | |||
| CIFJ | 1480 AM | Former simulcast of CIVH Vanderhoof | ||
| CIFL | 1450 AM | Former simulcast of CIVH Vanderhoof | ||
| CHLD | 1480 AM | Former simulcast of CFBV Smithers | ||
| CKBV | 1490 AM | Former simulcast of CFBV Smithers | ||
| 98.7 FM | On February 28, 2020, the CRTC denied renewal to CKPM's license after March 30, 2020 | |||
| 101.7 FM | ||||
| 1040 AM | 1986-1992. CKST would move to 1040 after its owners acquired CIMA. CIMA closed in February 1992, with CKST relocating from 800 to 1040 the following month. Its old 800 frequency remains vacant. | |||
| 1040 AM | Ceased operations on June 14, 2023 | |||
| 1410 AM | Ceased operations on June 14, 2023 | |||
| 750 AM | ||||
| 900 AM | 1993-2012. Continuing as an internet radio station. | |||
Manitoba | ||||
| 1290 AM | Ceased operations on June 14, 2023 | |||
| 107.9 FM | ||||
| 92.9 FM | 2004-2012. Closed due to new regulations prohibiting students from being employed as DJs. Continuing as an internet radio station.[1] | |||
New Brunswick | ||||
| CIRC-FM | 93.3 FM | 2004-2010. Continuing as an internet radio station. | ||
| 1380 AM | 1981-85. CHLR went dark on Jan. 2, 1985 due to bankruptcy.[2] | |||
| 9625 kHz | Station operated on shortwave. Left the air in 2012. | |||
| 103.5 FM | 2003-2013. CJRP-FM went dark on April 19, 2013, due to continual monetary losses.[3] | |||
Newfoundland and Labrador | ||||
Northwest Territories | ||||
Nova Scotia | ||||
| 107.3 FM | 2010-2012. Closed by owner due to economic troubles. | |||
Nunavut | ||||
Ontario | ||||
| 94.7 FM | Bankruptcy in 2010. | |||
| 1490 AM | Superseded by FM conversion of sister station CHVR. | |||
| CFAK | ||||
| 101.5 FM | The CRTC approved the Voice of Aurora Community Radio's application to operate an FM community radio station in 2016. [4] The group applied for a one-year extension in March 2018 to get the CHRA-FM on the air. The revised construction permit expired in 2019 and the station was never launched. Future plans to reapply and launch the station are uncertain. | |||
| 730 AM | Superseded by FM conversion of sister station CKNR. | |||
| CKPC | Brantford | 1380 AM | Station left the air in 2023. | |
| CIBI-FM | 102.5 FM | In 2003, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), on behalf of the Department of the Environment received approval by the CRTC to operate a new low-power FM radio station which would provide weather and environmental information. [5] Its unknown if the station was ever launched. | ||
| CIIB-FM | 94.5 FM | Was a tourist information station owned by Instant Information Services | ||
| 105.5 FM | ||||
| CFYI | 790 AM | Was a 30 watt tourist information station [6] [7] | ||
| 530 AM | ||||
| 1170 AM | 1959-83. CFIX went dark in Dec. 1983 due to technical and financial problems. | |||
| 1220 AM | ||||
| CIRG-FM | 107.7 FM | Was a tourist information station owned by Instant Information Services | ||
| 97.3 FM | Was a Christian radio station that operated from 2003-2013. Station left the air on August 31, 2013 due to lack of support. | |||
| CFCD-FM | 98.5 FM | Approved to operate in 2002 [8] Licence revoked in 2013. [9] | ||
| CKEF | 1450 AM | See CKDR-FM Dryden. | ||
| 930 AM | Superseded by FM conversion of sister station CKNR. | |||
| 1240 AM | A low-power 40 watt AM transmitter that signed on the air as a local community radio station in 1973 [10] with some CBC programming but is uncertain of when it left the air. A CBC rebroadcaster CBCE-FM in Little Current signed on in the 1980s to cover Manitoulin Island, areas of the north shore and Espanola replacing the AM signal. | |||
| 530 AM | Owned by Fawcett Broadcasting, CFHS's last licence renewal was in 1994.[11] Its uncertain if the station is still broadcasting. | |||
| 92.3 FM | Was a community radio station owned by Couchiching Community Radio that was launched in 2004.[12] Its unknown when the station left the air; the CRTC renewed CKWO-FM's licence from 1 September 2012 to 28 February 2013, with no record of renewal from that date.[13] | |||
| CKUC-FM | 102.7 FM | On May 21, 2014, the CRTC approved an application by Justin Godin to operate a low-power FM commercial radio station to serve French River offering a music format consisting of pop, rock and dance, country and easy listening music. [14] [15] The station was never launched. | ||
| 93.7 FM | ||||
| 900 AM | The station ceased operations on August 14, 2024. [16] | |||
| CKHD | See CKDR-FM Dryden. | |||
| CKIG | See CKDR-FM Dryden. | |||
| 107.7 FM | Was a community radio station owned by Seaway Campus Community Radio Ltd. that signed on the air around 1999 and left the air in 2003. | |||
| 104.7 FM | Station left the air in 2014. | |||
| CIRJ-FM | 106.3 FM | Was a tourist information station owned by Instant Information Services | ||
| 1290 AM | Ceased operations on June 14, 2023 | |||
| 1410 AM | The station left the air at midnight August 14, 2016. | |||
| 1450 AM | Station left the air in 1977 [17] CHAP (owned by Kenomadiwin Inc.) was a radio station, which lasted from 1970-1977 and also operated a number of stations in the following locations: CHAS Aroland, CHOP Gull Bay, CHEW Lake Helen, CHIP MacDairmid, and CHOX Pays Platt. | |||
| 1280 AM | ||||
| 710 AM | Station left the air in 2012. | |||
| 104.9 FM | ||||
| VEK565 | 90.7 FM | |||
| 1310 AM | Station left the air on October 26, 2023. [18] [19] | |||
| CHYW | 1630 AM | A low-power tourist information radio station that operated from the Macdonald-Cartier International Airport which was approved by the CRTC to operate on 1630 kHz in 2001. [20] Its uncertain when the station left the air. | ||
| CIIO-FM | Station used a variety of frequencies until it left the air in 2011. [21] [22] [23] [24] | |||
| CFDT-FM | 96.5 FM | |||
| CFDK-FM | 98.5 FM | |||
| CKRE | 1340 AM | See CKDR-FM Dryden. | ||
| CFRI-FM | 95.1 FM | JR Radio (OBCI) was approved in 2000 to operate a new community FM radio station at 95.1 MHz with 50 watts. [25] JR Radio (OBCI) received approval for an extension of time limit to get the station on the air in 2001. [26] Its uncertain if the station had ever launched or when it left the air. There's no known license renewals for CFRI-FM Red Lake. | ||
| 1400 AM | Superseded by FM conversion of sister station CHVR. | |||
| 1150 AM | An English-language low-power AM travellers radio station owned by Global Communications Limited. CFOT's Last licence renewal with the CRTC was in 1990.[27] | |||
| 1220 AM | License revoked in 2010 due to regulatory non-compliance. Remains active as an Internet radio service. | |||
| 530 AM | Licensed by the CRTC in 1986; [28] Last licence renewal was in 2004 [29] and later left the air. | |||
| 1050 AM | ||||
| 920 AM | ||||
| See CKDR-FM Dryden. | ||||
| 102.9 FM | ||||
| 101.1 FM | ||||
| CIQW-FM | 99.3 FM | Forced off the air due to a nearby new radio station CJPE-FM in Prince Edward County | ||
| 800 AM | See CBQT-FM | |||
| 1510 AM | Ceased broadcasting on February 17, 2013 as Canada's last AM daytimer radio station; now continued as CJDL-FM. | |||
| CKTT-FM | 94.3 FM | A former tourist information station that was launched by 1311831 Ontario Limited in the early 2000s. [30] [31] The last license renewal was in 2007 to expire on August 31, 2014. [32] It is unknown when the station left the air. | ||
| 102.3 FM | 1996-2012. License revoked due to regulatory non-compliance in 2012. The Christian music format continues with a live stream on the internet at chimfm.com as well as a Broadcast Station on 1710 AM in Timmins. | |||
| 770 AM | Owned and operated by the Toronto Daily Star from 1922 to 1933, was Toronto's first regularly broadcasting radio station and was the first radio station in the world to broadcast live play-by-play hockey coverage. | |||
| 1610 AM | Dropped from an unprotected frequency in 2004; never submitted an application for a new frequency before its scheduled license renewal in 2010. | |||
| 106.5 | License for flagship station of the Aboriginal Voices Radio network revoked in 2015 due to regulatory non-compliance. Toronto flagship terminated, rebroadcasters in Ottawa (CKAV-FM-9 95.7 MHz) and Kitchener (CKAV-FM-8 102.5 MHz) also defunct as well as Vancouver (CKAV-FM-2, 106.3 MHz), Calgary (CKAV-FM-3 88.1 MHz), Edmonton (CKAV-FM-4 89.3 MHz), and Montreal (CKAV-FM-10, 106.7 MHz) also defunct. | |||
| 88.1 FM | License revoked in 2011 due to regulatory non-compliance. Succeeded as an Internet radio service by Radio Regent. Frequency assigned to CIND-FM, which began broadcasting in 2013. | |||
| 89.9 FM | Station left the air in 2010. | |||
| 99.1 FM | Flagship of a national news radio network; discontinued by owner in 1989. | |||
| 103.9 FM | Station left the air on September 1, 2023 | |||
| 98.3 FM | ||||
| CJWE-FM | 98.5 FM | On November 1, 1995, The Canadian Wildlife Experience Inc. received a licence to operate a new low-power tourist information radio station to serve Massey, Walford and Spanish, Ontario at 98.5 MHz, during the spring, summer and fall seasons.[33] Its uncertain when the station discontinued their seasonal broadcasts and left the air. The Canadian Wildlife Experience had not filed any renewals and applications with the CRTC. | ||
Prince Edward Island | ||||
| 90.3 FM | Former University of Prince Edward Island campus radio station; ceased operations in 2000. | |||
Quebec | ||||
| CKBH | 790 AM | 1980-1982. CKBH went dark in 1982 due to financial problems.[34] | ||
| 1450 AM | 1964?-1974?. English language radio station for the military community stationed at CFB Bagotville. Owned, operated and funded by CFB Bagotville's Non Public Funds. Staff were volunteers but did receive a courtesy pay of approx $2.00 per hour of air time. Programming consisted of news local on Base activities, community events and easy listening music. Hours varied but live broadcasting was generally between the hours of 8:00 AM to 10:PM 7 days a week. CBC AM English language programing was piped in by a landline from Quebec City and aired before and after CKBG local programming hours, as well as the hourly news. Ceased operations when the military Anglo community diminished substantially in the mid 70's. | |||
| 1340 AM | ||||
| 104.5 FM | 1983-1987. Later superseded on this frequency by CIGR-FM Sherbrooke in 2003, which would go dark in 2011 as CJTS-FM. | |||
| CKRV | 1400 AM | 1974-1984[35] | ||
| 1350 AM | On November 29, 2017, the CRTC approved an application by Radio Communautaire Francophone et Francophile de l’Outaouais to operate a new French-language community radio station in Gatineau, Quebec. [36] The station signed on in 2018 but left the air in 2019. | |||
| 1450 AM | CHEF left the air in 1996 due to financial problems. | |||
| 970 AM | Station left the air in 1994. | |||
| 1570 AM | 1962-1994. Frequency since occupied by CJLV. | |||
| CFRM | Moisie (CFS Moisie) | 1340 AM | 1964-? CFRM began broadcasting from the radar site in 1964 with a 10 watt output located at 1340 kHz on the AM dial. It is unknown when the station left the air. [37] [38] [39] | |
| CKBM | 1490 AM | 1954-83. CKBM went dark in Aug. 1983 due to financial problems.[40] | ||
| 1410 AM | Frequency later occupied by CFMB, 1962-1997; slated to become new frequency for CJWI 1610.[41] | |||
| 690 AM | Ceased operations in 2010; since superseded by the relocation of CKGM from 990 AM. | |||
| 940 AM | Ceased operations in 2010; to be superseded by a newly licensed station at this frequency.[42] | |||
| 980 AM | Signed off on May 31, 2020 | |||
| 1280 AM | Ceased operations in 1994; since superseded by the relocation of CFMB from 1410 AM. | |||
| 96.7 FM | Was a pirate radio station which also broadcast on 6045 kHz on shortwave. | |||
| 98.5 FM | Frequency since occupied by CHMP-FM. | |||
| 1470 AM | 1960-89. CKO was the only AM outlet of the defunct CKO all-news network, which bought the station in late 1977. All other CKO stations across the country were FM. Before CKO was bought by the network, it was licensed as CFOX. CKO left the air at the same time the entire CKO network closed down for good, during the noon newscast (Eastern Time) on Nov. 10, 1989. The problems leading to the closing of the network were due to poor ratings and a breakdown in the negotiations concerning the ongoing sale of the operation. The network never returned to the air, and many of the original FM frequencies used by the CKO stations in major cities have since been awarded to other licensees. The Montréal AM frequency used by CKO has never been reactivated. | |||
| 1350 AM | 1949-1976. The CRTC revoked the license of CFOM in 1976 for repeated format violations. | |||
| 800 AM | 1926-2012. | |||
| Quebec City (Charlesbourg) | 103.7 FM | 2001-2008. | ||
| 1280 AM | 1926-90. CKCV was closed on September 21, 1990 in order for its owner, Telemedia, to apply to purchase CHRC, also in Quebec City. The CRTC denied the sale of CHRC to Telemedia, but CKCV remained dark. | |||
| 1060 AM | ||||
| 900 AM | ||||
| 104.5 FM | 2004-2011. Ceased operations when interim owners Cogeco was unable to find a new owner for the station.[43] | |||
Saskatchewan | ||||
| 92.7 FM | Briercrest Bible College The station launched in 1995,[44] but ceased broadcasting and revoked its license in 2006.[45] | |||
| 710 AM | Became a rebroadcaster of CBKF-FM. | |||
| 90.1 FM | Société canadienne-française de Prince Albert previously launched CKSF-FM, a community-owned rebroadcaster of CBKF-FM which had gone off the air. The new station will be launched at 90.1 MHz in Prince Albert as a full-time rebroadcaster of Ici Radio-Canada Première's CBKF-FM Regina which was approved by the CRTC on August 7, 2020[46] | |||
| 860 AM | Became a rebroadcaster of CBKF-FM. | |||
| Former University of Saskatchewan campus radio station, discontinued in 1985. Relaunched in 2005 as an Internet radio service. | ||||
| CHSK-FM | 95.7 FM | Became a rebroadcaster of CBK-FM (CBK-FM-4)[47] | ||
Yukon | ||||
| CKRW | 610 AM | Continues as CKRW-FM 96.1 | ||
| 93.5 FM | 1984-2003. Operated as a legislature broadcaster, airing proceedings of the Yukon Legislative Assembly. | |||
On March 3, 1986, the CRTC approved the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's application to add low-power English-language AM radio stations in the following communities: Carolin, Coquihalla Lakes, Haig, Hope, Hunter Creek, Kingsvale, Merritt North, Merritt South and Sowaqua, British Columbia. The stations would operate on the frequency of 1490 kHz, each with a transmitter power of 20 watts, to provide a travellers information service.[48] The CRTC also approved the CBC's application to operate a radio station at Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal, on the frequency 1260 kHz with a transmitter power of 5 watts, to provide a marine and local weather service.[49] The CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate a French-language AM radio station at Elk Island National Park, Alberta on frequency 1210 kHz with a day-time and night-time power of 20 watts [50] and an English-language radio station to operate at 1540 kHz.[51] It is currently unknown if these radio stations are still in operation.