Editing CFNY-FM (section)

===From CHIC to CFNY===
The station commenced operations on August 8, 1960, as an [[FM broadcasting|FM]] rebroadcast of an [[AM broadcasting|AM]] station, [[CIAO (AM)|CHIC]]. On September 21, 1962, two brothers, Leslie and Harry Allen Jr., agreed to purchase all shares of CHIC Radio Ltd. from [[Spence Caldwell|S.W. Caldwell]], Frank M. Early, F.J. Shouldice, John Fox, W.S. Martin, Frank W. Richardson, Garth H. Ketemer, G. Clare Burt, J.R. Jenkins and Gordon F. Keeble. The sale occurred on October 15 later that year and was subject to government approval. They began playing album rock music in the evenings while simulcasting the AM programming during the day. The nearby [[Humber College]] provided a steady stream of young employees, who were encouraged to play their own selections. Noted Canadian radio and television personality [[Vicki Gabereau]] was one of such employees. At this point in the station's existence, it operated under the call letters CHIC-FM, broadcasting about 30 hours per week, with a transmitter power of 857 watts ERP mono.<ref>{{cite web |title=CFNY-FM |url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cfny-fm |website=Canadian Communication Foundation |access-date=22 October 2018 |archive-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028061345/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cfny-fm |url-status=dead }}</ref> This was enough to just service the town of Brampton.

Until approximately 1975, the AM control room operator spun LPs from the third turntable in AM master control. Nonstop full play of each side of the LP was the norm - with just a break by the AM operator for ID and to flip the LP over. The music was picked by the AM operator prior to their shift. Some of those on air people were Dave Gordon, Mike Lynch, Steve Martak, Rich Elwood, [[Ted Woloshyn]], Scott Cameron; any genre of music was open to airtime.

The style of the station was well received by listeners. In 1976, a new FM studio was built just up the road from the old studio in Brampton on a very limited budget. Engineers Mike Hargrave Pawson and Steve Martak built the new studio and a new transmitter site in Georgetown to increase the coverage from 857 watts to 100&nbsp;kW ERP, thus able to cover much of the Greater Toronto Area.{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}
[[File:Chic-cfny.png|thumb|CHIC & CFNY billed side by side]]
In 1976,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A//www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/radio/histories.php%3Fid%3D397%26historyID%3D179|title=Canadian Communications Foundation &#124; Fondation des Communications Canadiennes|publisher=Broadcasting-history.ca|access-date=2015-07-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226214312/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadcasting-history.ca%2Flistings_and_histories%2Fradio%2Fhistories.php%3Fid%3D397%26historyID%3D179|archive-date=2015-02-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> CHIC-FM officially became CFNY-FM. The phrases "Canada's First New Youth", "Canada Finds New Youth", and "Canada's Fresh New Youth" have often been cited as [[backronym]]s for the call sign. Staff employed to that point were fired in favour of hiring a new team and David Pritchard joined the station as CFNY's first program director. He had previously been a DJ at [[CHUM-FM]], and under his guidance the station became more structured. It also began hosting specialty programs of reggae and blues music, and a popular, nationally syndicated Beatles show.

[[David Marsden]], who had started as an announcer at the station, was selected as Pritchard's successor in 1978.