850 AM Montreal

850 AM was a proposed radio station to be launched in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station would have been owned by Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy Media (TTP), a company controlled by business partners Rajiv Pancholy, Paul Tietolman and Nicolas Tétrault.
The French-language sports/talk radio format was to broadcast with a power of 50,000 watts daytime and 22,000 watts nighttime, on 850 kHz as a class B station. The station would have also broadcast with a directional signal to the northeast, to protect Class-A clear-channel station KOA in Denver at night, and other stations broadcasting on, or close to, 850 AM, during the day, such as WEEI in Boston; WYLF in Penn Yan, New York; and WAXB in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
TTP was awarded a license by the CRTC on June 19, 2013. In the initial application, the station planned on broadcasting from facilities on Île Perrot; The CRTC approved the extension, now giving TTP until June 19, 2016 to open the station.
Until 1999, the 850 kHz AM frequency was formerly occupied by station CKVL, which moved to 690 AM as CINF later that year. CINF would cease operations in 2010.

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