for the next 7 seasons. Live sports TSN Radio 690 is the flagship station for the following teams' radio broadcasts: Montreal Alouettes (CFL) Montreal Canadiens (NHL) CF Montréal (MLS) TSN Radio 690 also features live coverage of the following: MLB Baseball (select games, including some from the Toronto Blue Jays and Washington Nationals) NFL Football (select games) Indycar (auto racing) NHL Playoffs hockey Notable staff Elliott Price Mitch Melnick Chris Nilan ("Knuckles" Nilan) Sergio Momesso History Early days CKGM was founded by Geoff Stirling and opened on December 7, 1959. The station was then on 980 kHz with a power of 10,000 watts full-time as a class B station, using a directional antenna with different patterns day and night (the nighttime pattern being somewhat tighter). The 980 frequency had been previously occupied by CKVL, before it moved to 850. While most of the station's programming was devoted to music (playing Top 40 hits), the station also had a number of open-line talk shows. CKGM 980 was very well listened to in its heyday of Top 40 hits in the Northern Vermont and Northern New York areas due to their proximity to Montreal. On July 16, 1963, an FM sister station, CKGM-FM, later known as CHOM-FM starting in 1970. After a few weeks of simulcasting CKGM, the FM station adopted a beautiful music format on September 1. In 1963, a Molotov cocktail was thrown through a window, but was faulty and did not ignite inside the studios. Only three people were in the studios at the late night hour, including Jim Turner, on the air in the control room just a few metres away. In 1965, CKGM hired open-line host Pat Burns, famous for his controversial opinions, especially on language issues. Known in particular for featuring prominently on his show Francophones who were proud of being bilingual or of being assimilated to the Anglophone community (again, depending on the point of view), Burns would remain on the air until early 1969, resigning after a boycott campaign targeting the station's advertisers was launched. Burns was sufficiently controversial to be publicly denounced by Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson Sr., and the station received several bomb threats during the late 1960s. In 1968, CKGM moved from 1455 Drummond in downtown Montreal to 1310 Greene in Westmount. CKGM became the Montreal Expos' flagship for the baseball team's first season in Montreal in 1969. (Baseball would move