Station History
CHUM AM has been broadcasting continuously since 1945, through a variety of format changes. The station's history can be broken into eight distinct eras, as follows:
| Era | Start date | Format | Brand and/or slogan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 October 1945 | "Full service"—music, news, sports. Station only on air from sun-up to sundown through most of this era. | 1050 CHUM |
| 2 | 27 May 1957 | Top 50 hits. (Later reduced to top 30 as of August, 1968) | 1050 CHUM |
| 3 | 6 June 1986 | Adult Contemporary | 1050 CHUM: Favourites Of Yesterday and Today |
| 4 | 1 Sep 1989 | Oldies. Some sports coverage, including broadcasts of Toronto Argonauts games, and from 1998 on, Toronto Blue Jays games. | 1050 CHUM: Good Times and Great Oldies |
| 5 | 7 May 2001 | Sports and sports talk. | The Team 1050 |
| 6 | 27 August 2002 | Oldies. | 1050 CHUM: Toronto's Greatest Hits |
| 7 | 26 March 2009 | Straight rebroadcast of audio feed of all-news TV station CP24. | CP24 |
| 8 | 13 April 2011 | Sports and sports talk. | TSN Radio 1050 |
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