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Canadian broadcasting company
Huron Broadcasting
was a Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, active in
Sault Ste. Marie
from 1976 to 1990.
The company first entered the broadcasting business in 1976, when it acquired the assets of the city's prior Hyland Broadcasting and Algonquin Broadcasting companies, including
CJIC-TV
and the radio stations
CJIC
,
CJIC-FM
,
CKCY
and
CKCY-FM
, as well as
CJWA
in
Wawa
,
CKNR
in
Elliot Lake
,
CJNR
in
Blind River
and
CKNS
in
Espanola
.
[1]
Due to
concentration of media ownership
rules, Huron then sold the CJIC radio stations to another new company, Gilder Broadcasting, shortly after the merger was completed. (Gilder changed those stations' call signs to CFYN and CHAS.)
Huron subsequently also opened
CKCY-TV
in 1977.
[2]
Huron sold its radio stations to other owners in the mid-1980s.
Telemedia
acquired Sault Ste. Marie's CJIC and CJIC-FM, by this time known as
CFYN
and
CHAS-FM
, in 1985, while the remaining stations were sold to
Mid-Canada Radio
in two separate transactions, in 1986 (the stations in Blind River, Elliot Lake and Espanola) and 1988 (the remaining stations in Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa).
The television stations were acquired by
Baton Broadcasting
in 1990, and were converted by Baton to the
MCTV
branding in use on the
Mid-Canada Television
stations in
Sudbury
,
Timmins
and
North Bay
, which had been acquired by Baton in the same year.
[3]
At the same time Mid-Canada sold the radio stations to
Pelmorex
, where they formed part of the
Pelmorex Radio Network
until 1998.
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