Radio / Television News

CJMS keeps broadcasting without a licence as it tries to appeal CRTC decision


By Steve Faguy MONTREAL — In the last six hours of its licence, CJMS 1040 AM program director Jocelyn Benoit hosted a special show reminiscing about the station's 21-year history, interviewing various guests and playing country music hits. Though he promised the station, based in the Montreal suburb of St-Constant, would live on as an online-only stream run personally by him, it was clear this would be more of a death than a rebirth. A few seconds after midnight on Sept. 1, Benoit was cut off mid-sentence, and the station went dead on schedule. Except the next morning, it was...