He is associated with CKOI-FM in Montreal and famous for his phone call hoaxes.

The band's first single attracted the attention of Montreal radio station CKOI-FM, leading to a deal with Alert Records.

Unlike other North American superpower FM stations which have lowered their power since the 1990s, CKOI-FM does cherishes its signal ; as a result, when Industry Canada advised the station in 2004 that it was not compliant with updated Code 6 safety regulations ( which deal with acceptable levels of radiation ), owner Corus Entertainment invested to make the transmitter compliant, instead of taking the " easy way " out, which would have been in this specific case to reduce power to " only " 122, 800 watts.

CKOI-FM lost its longtime morningman Normand Brathwaite on March 17, 2006, following a conflict with former co-host Jean-René Dufort ; the latter became the station's morning man until June 22, 2007.

They were also the only Top 40 / CHR outlet in Montreal thru 2012, when CKOI-FM reverted to top 40 with a more youth-oriented target over CKMF-FM.

However, the 1980s hits came back in August 2012, and began leaning towards an older direction ( rival CKOI-FM switched from hot adult contemporary to youth-targeted contemporary hit radio in January 2012 ), with a more heavy emphasis on 1990s & 2000s classic hits, particularly because the CKOI radio network folded and the other NRJ stations wanted a more hot AC lean.

As such, like for rival CHQM-FM being the only adult contemporary station in Vancouver, now the largest market with only one AC station, Vancouver is the largest market in Canada with only one hot AC station ( which is CKZZ-FM ) since French-language station CKOI-FM defected to hot AC most recently in Montreal, although Montreal's existing hot AC station is English-language CJFM-FM ( also branded as Virgin Radio ).

On February 21, 2011, the station rebranded to CKOI 104. 7, picking up the hot adult contemporary format and branding similar to its Montreal sister station, CKOI-FM and CJRC-FM change its callsign to CKOF-FM.

French-language radio station CKOI-FM transmits its 307, 000 watt signal atop that building.

Formerly North America's most powerful commercial FM station ( currently it is Montreal's CKOI-FM ); in 2003 CITI-FM was granted a decrease in effective radiated power from 360, 000 ( directional ) to 140, 000 ( directional ) watts.

CKOI-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec.

For many years CKOI-FM was the most popular station in Montreal according to BBM Canada ratings using full coverage reach numbers ( as opposed to central reach numbers which only take into account listeners from the central market area ); however, full coverage reach numbers are no longer available for Montreal radio stations as BBM now relies on the Portable People Meter ( PPM ) technology to measure ratings in Montreal.

On November 24, 2011, the CRTC determined that CKOI-FM had abusively used musical montages of English-language songs in order to get around the French-language music quotas, and imposed a condition of licence on the station limiting the broadcasting of montages to 10 percent of the broadcast week.

L ' Empire des futures stars was an annual contest for new musical bands in the Canadian province of Quebec, sponsored by CKOI-FM in Montreal.

On December 6, 1976, CKVL-FM became CKOI-FM, and the station's format was changed to progressive rock.

) The station's best-ever results under the old diary system were obtained in the Spring 1995 ratings, in which CKOI-FM got 1, 341, 300 listeners ; by comparison, CKAC, which was the station's closest competitor, got only 775, 500 listeners.

CKOI-FM was never listed on the Canadian hot AC panel.

On April 30, 2010, Cogeco announced it would purchase Corus Quebec's radio stations, including CKOI-FM, for $ 80 million, as Corus's Quebec stations were less profitable than its stations in other parts of Canada.

After short stints in Ottawa and Quebec, he settled in Montreal and started to work for CKOI-FM in 1976.

CKOI-FM would get over a million listeners in 32 consecutive books ( excluding Summer ratings starting in 2001 which were only done for the central area of the market ), from Fall 1991 to Fall 2002 inclusively.

By 2010, NRJ began beating CKOI-FM again.

On December 17, 2010, the CRTC approved the sale of most of Corus ' radio stations in Quebec, including CKOI-FM, to Cogeco.

While NRJ & Rouge FM lean towards an older direction, Cogeco's Rythme FM & CKOI-FM lean towards a younger direction.

A brace of pistols, holstered on belts, hung from a peg, along with ammunition pouches.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

Probably a larger percentage of Virginians and South Carolinians remain unreconstructed than elsewhere, with Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama following along after them.

When the Revolution broke out, he, along with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar, with considerable financial sacrifice.

Dictionaries, as we have seen, still cite this government, along with the Articles of Confederation of 1781, as an example of a confederacy.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

she filled the waste spots of the yard with common things like the garden heliotrope in a corner by the woodshed, and the plantain lilies along the west side of the house.

The first sentence, with its platitudinous irony, announces an emblematic intent: `` The way to the churchyard ran along beside the highroad, ran beside it all the way to the end ; ;

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Swift, in the Dublin edition of A Preface to the Bishop of Sarum's Introduction, indicated his feelings by including Molesworth, along with Toland, Tindal, and Collins, in the group of those who, like Burnet, are engaged in attacking all Convocations of the clergy.

From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;

In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.

A horse needed twenty pounds of food a day but the infantryman got along with two pounds.

along the Danube and among the Carpathians, in alliance with the Emperor Joseph's armies ; ;

Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.

The selective and directional qualities of basic value-orientations are clearly evident in these data: the `` success-oriented '' students choose vocational preparation, the `` other-directed '' choose goals of social adjustment ( `` getting along with people '' ), the `` intellectuals '' choose a liberal arts emphasis.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.