1010 CFRB first broadcast in AM Stereo - July 30th, 1984

A recording of when 1010 CFRB in Toronto, Ontario, Canada officially began broadcasting in AM Stereo full-time, at 10:10 AM on July 30th, 1984. They previously had been testing the Magnavox AM Stereo system during overnight hours, using three prototype Sansui CX-990 multi-system AM Stereo car radios, but decided to go with the Motorola C-Quam system, which became the standard for AM Stereo broadcasting in 1988 in Canada and 1993 in the USA.

This recording unfortunately was not made in stereo, and is actually from an .AU file (remember those?) that someone uploaded to the Internet many years ago. I no longer have a copy of that file, nor does it exist anymore online, but I luckily dubbed the majority of it to cassette (skipping over the commercials and most of the weather report). There is one MP3 copy of it online, but that's just an incomplete, lower-quality transfer of this cassette recording.

CFRB mentioned that there were five different systems for AM Stereo, but actually only four were in use at the time (C-Quam, Kahn, Harris, and Magnavox); the fifth system, Belar, dropped out in 1982 when the FCC announced they were going to leave it up to the marketplace to decide which system would become the standard for AM Stereo broadcasting.

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