The day before the sad announcement last week about the closure of CHML Radio, I was a guest on Rick Zamperin’s morning show. The program featured a segment called “Do You Know?” and the topic we talked about was “ ” drinking fountains that were found on city sidewalks and in parks from 1914 until the early 2000s. The continuously gurgling fountains — the subject of a — were uniquely Hamilton.
There was a time when everyone in Hamilton knew what a Shorty Green was, while outsiders would have no idea. We also talked about Shorty Green (Wilfred Thomas Green), the captain of the 1920s Hamilton Tigers of the National Hockey League. He led a players’ strike because they were expected to play extra games without extra pay and the team in 1925 ended up moving to the U.
S. to become the New York Americans. A Hamilton NHL team never returned to the city.
CHML has gone off the air after nearly a century of broadcasting. It’s just the latest bit of local cultural identity to be lost, Mark McNeil writes. Thinking back to the phone conversation with Rick, it seems so ironic.
There we were talking about history on a radio station that was about to become history. Just over 24 hours later, the CHML signal, at 900 on the dial, dissolved into static. Nearly a century of local broadcasting history vanished from the air.
“After decades of service to our remarkable community, we are announcing the closure of the 900 CHML Radio station,” the Wednesday announcement said. “Th.