CKNT


CKNT is an AM radio station that broadcasts a news/talk radio format on the frequency of 960 kHz in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

History

Elliot Kerr, owner of the Mississauga Steelheads hockey team, received an approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on November 22, 2011 to operate a new English-language news/talk AM radio station at Mississauga on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated. In his application, Kerr stated that the station would air 101 hours of local news and talk content per week. The station was assigned a frequency of 960 kHz which was previously used by a radio station out of Cambridge, Ontario, known today as CJDV-FM.
The station was intended to begin broadcasting in 2012, but Kerr had difficulty in finding an appropriate site for the station's transmitter tower. This delayed the launch of the station. The CRTC approved applications to decrease the daytime transmitter power from 2,000 to 700 watts, decrease the night-time transmitter power from 180 to 104 watts, and relocate the transmitter in 2014; and a renewal on the license for the yet to be launched station in 2018.
Kerr announced on August 31, 2018 that the station would soft launch on September 4. The station had been stunting for several months prior with filler music. The station officially launched its full programming schedule on October 29, 2018.

Programming

Among its original line-up were Mike Bullard hosting The Getaway from 4 to 7 pm with comedian Lawrence Morganstern as co-host and Comedian Glen Foster and Jodie Decker who hosted Foster & Decker from 2 – 4 pm.
The station's current schedule includes Mike Richards, who became the station's morning drive host along with David Bastl on January 7, 2019; The Marc Patrone Show, a politics and business program hosted by former CRTC commissioner and former Sun News Network and Rebel News contributor Marc Patrone; David Wojcik hosting a business show; Media Nation with former CTV News reporter Karlene Nation; The Norm with Norm Murray, among other programs. The station airs live Mississauga Steelheads hockey games; the team is also owned by Kerr.