CKSN

CKSN (1470 AM, Sportsnet 1470 The Fan) is a Canadian sports radio station in,. Owned and operated by ; CKSN's studios are located in the Rogers Building at the corner of and Cathcart Street in, while its transmitters are located in.

History
With studios based at 203 Hymus Blvd. in Pointe-Claire, the station went on air on March 15, 1960 as CFOX with an adult contemporary format with 1,000 watts of power, but was changed on February 5, 1963 to 10,000 watts. In 1964 the station format changed to country, and in 1965 to a Top 40 station.

The station was originally operated by Lakeshore Broadcasting, which was owned by noted Montreal radio journalist Gord Sinclair Jr. (the son of Toronto radio/TV journalist Gordon Sinclair). It was sold to Allan Slaight in 1972, and he converted it to a country format. In 1975, the station went back to a Top 40 format until September 1977.

Later that year it was purchased by the CKO news network, changing the call sign to CKO accordingly and converting it from Top 40 to an all-news format. The CFOX call sign would later resurface in January 1979 at an FM station in Vancouver, British Columbia.

In 1986, CKO applied to convert from the AM dial to the FM dial at 95.1 MHz; that application was denied on March 19, 1987. (95.1 FM has since been occupied by CBF-FM, after that station's relocation from 690 kHz in 1998.) On June 20, 1989, the commission approved an application by changing the frequency from 1470 kHz to 650 kHz, as a way to improve reception in areas of Montreal Island; CKO's frequency change proposal was never implemented.

The station went off air when the network ceased broadcasting during a noon newscast on November 10, 1989. The news was produced, but never aired.

In 1990, CKO was sold back to Slaight (this time under his company), reallocated to, and flipped to a country format as CHGY, aka Country 1470. CHGY broadcast some local sports programming in addition to it's country format. In 2002, CHGY and sister station CIMQ-FM were sold to Rogers. Under Rogers, the country format was removed in favor of an all-sports lineup as The Fan 1470.

In January 2011, CHGY changed it's callsign to CKSN and became known as Sportsnet Radio The Fan 1470, the move coming as part of a co-branding initiative with its television counterpart Sportsnet, amid indications that rival TSN was preparing to launch a competing sports radio station,. The station's on air identity was then changed to Sportsnet 1470 The Fan in October 2011.

Current

 * Roger Reneau
 * Alex Thirdkill
 * Hank May (Expos)
 * Paul Levick (Expos)
 * Fred Westra
 * David O'Trohy
 * Jeannie Bagarella (The Jeannie & Dale Show)
 * Dale Loving (The Jeannie & Dale Show)
 * Norbert Lacedelli
 * Adarsh Sawhney (Sawhney's Scores)
 * Danton Sadoul