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CKLW
CKLW is a 50,000-watt, Class B, AM radio station broadcasting on the clear-channel frequency of 800 kHz (AM) and located in Windsor, Ontario, serving Windsor and Detroit. CKLW uses a five-tower directional antenna with differing patterns day and night, to protect Class-A clear-channel station XEROK-AM in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and other neighbouring stations on the same frequency. The transmitter is located in southern Essex County near Harrow only a few miles from the Lake Erie shoreline
Commission (CRTC)) decreed that broadcast stations licensed within Canada must be at least 80 percent owned by Canadians. With this ordinance in effect, RKO General was forced to put the CKLW stations up for sale. Western Ontario Broadcasting's licence to operate the stations was renewed for only one year, and in 1969, General Tire decided to get out altogether rather than accept a 20 percent share.
Two Canadian broadcasting firms, Maclean Hunter (which owned CTV station CFCN-TV in Calgary), and Baton Broadcasting (