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3 unusual facts about CHUM


Mangrove snapper

Chum is sometimes used by anglers to attract mangrove snapper and other species to feed and eat.

Mossom Creek Hatchery

Thanks to the efforts of volunteers over the decades there is now a strong run of Chum Salmon and an increasing run of Coho Salmon.

The Marilyn Denis Show

Denis had left CityLine in 2008 following the split of the assets of CHUM Limited (Denis was primarily employed as morning co-host on CHUM-FM, which was retained by CTV, whilst her secondary employer Citytv was acquired by Rogers).


Alligator farm

In the second season of The Amazing Race Australia, teams had to visit a Cuban alligator farm and feed a wheelbarrow full of chum to a pen of alligators along with capturing an alligator with a stick and rope in order to receive their next clue.

Big Jack Armstrong

Larsh moved on, working at other 50,000 watt stations like WMEX-1510 in Boston; CHUM-1050 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; KFI-640 in Los Angeles, KTNQ-/1020 in Los Angeles and WKBW-1520 in Buffalo, New York.

CHKT

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, CKEY was the leading Top 40 music competitor to 1050 CHUM; one of its DJs was later CFNY staple David Marsden, known as Dave Mickie at CKEY (and later at CHUM as well).

Club 6

CHUM deejays Mike Darrow and Bob Willson played popular music for teens to dance to with featured performances by Tommy Ambrose, Pat Hervey, the Walter Boys and the Mickey Shannon Combo.

Colette Trudeau

Colette’s song "I Don't Wanna Know" was added to the rotation on CHUM radio stations across Canada in January 2008 with Colette winning the ‘Up and Coming Artist of the Month’.

CTV Two Atlantic

Despite the then-pending CTVglobemedia/CHUM merger, CHUM content was actually lowered during the 2006-07 season compared to previous years, with other series from the CTV library – including repeats, "shelf" series like What About Brian, programming from MTV Canada, and timeshifted CTV programming for simsub purposes – making up the balance.

DXing

By the 1950s, and continuing through the mid-1970s, many of the most powerful North American "clear channel" stations such as KDKA, WLW, CKLW, CHUM, WABC, WJR, WLS, WKBW, KFI, KAAY, KSL and a host of border blasters from Mexico pumped out Top 40 music played by popular disc jockeys.

IHeartRadio

On July 2013, iHeartRadio began adding stations from outside the United States like CHUM-FM and CFBT-FM in Canada and Virgin Radio Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

John Giorno

He graduated from Columbia University in 1958, where he was a "college chum" of physicist Hans Christian von Baeyer.

Montréal 2025

Both the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) are part of the Montréal Technopole project.

Moses Znaimer

In 1987 CHUM-City purchased a former publishing building in Toronto's downtown west end and renovated it into the CHUM-City Building, a landmark media centre.

Phyllanthus acidus

The tree is common in Guam, Indonesia (where it is called ceremai or cerama), South Vietnam (called chùm ruột), Laos, northern Malaya (called cerme and chermai), and India (called chalmeri, harpharoi, Nellikai, Harfi,Arunellikai, Abazhanga,Nellipuli, Irumban Puli, Bilimbi, Usiri, Khatamada, Arinelli, Bimbool, Arinellika, Kiru Nerle, Mara Nelli, Amla).

Reduced Shakespeare Company

When Reinertson broke her ankle three weeks into the run, Borgeson suggested that school-chum Adam Long fill in for her in drag.

Sportsnet Radio

The stations (which maintain their former "The Fan" moniker in their names) were re-branded to increase their synergy with the co-owned Sportsnet television channel, amid indications that TSN would be launching a radio network of their own (which TSN indeed did, converting CHUM in Toronto to TSN Radio 1050).

The Road to Hollywood

Dick Stewart as Jerry, Bing's Chum from Billboard Girl (archive footage)

The Sound Lounge

Chris Biggs became the program's new host on September 11, 2007, after Kimm moved to CHIQ in Winnipeg as the station's morning host, and Richie Favalaro became the host in early 2008 after Biggs left CHUM to join a competing Toronto radio station, CKFM.

Townies and Hayseeds

There is a romantic subplot where Pa Townie's daughter Adelaide (Lotus Thompson) is pursued by a returned serviceman, George, and an English "new chum" called "Choom".


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