40 station, Z103 hosted live-to-air programs from area nightclubs in the city, as well as syndicated shows such as the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, American Top 40 and Canadian Hit 30 Countdown. Positioning slogans during the Top 40 period included "Sudbury's Best Music", "Today's Best Music" and "Sudbury's #1 Hit Music Station." On November 9, 2001, Haliburton sold CHNO to Newcap Broadcasting. Despite no longer having common ownership, however, CHYC and CHNO continued to operate from the same studio facility at 493 Barrydowne Road in Sudbury until 2009. Newcap and Rogers Media soon entered into a joint sales agreement, under which Rogers held responsibility for advertising sales on CHNO as well as on its own CJRQ, CIGM and CJMX. In 2002, however, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting filed a brief with the CRTC opposing the station's license renewal — FCB took the position that in practice, the agreement was extending well beyond advertising sales and into both program production and news gathering, and thus constituted an illegal de facto local management agreement. On January 31, 2005, the CRTC disallowed the agreement, ruling in its license renewals for the four stations that the agreement must be terminated no later than May 31 of that year. Big Daddy At 12:00 AM on January 1, 2006, with little or no warning, the station flipped to a variety hits format branded as Big Daddy 103.9 with slogan "Playing Anything", ending another era of Top 40 music in the Sudbury market. The last song on "Z" was "Lose Yourself" by Eminem, while the first song on "Big Daddy" was "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones. General manager Darlene Palmer said the station wanted to offer Sudbury "music you can dance to, sing to, date to, divorce to." Some promotional bumpers for the station featured a stiff-voiced character representing "Big Daddy" himself. The stiff-voiced character was replaced by a new one around the middle of 2008. In the first quarter BBM ratings for 2006, CHNO's first ratings book under the Big Daddy format, the station regained the #1 status in the Sudbury market for the first time since 1990. However, the move was controversial with some of the station's prior listeners, and in July 2006, just seven months after flipping CHNO to the adult hits format, Newcap applied to the CRTC for a new contemporary hit radio station in the Sudbury market. In the application,