Today marks 60 years of community service radio in Steinbach and the southeast. AM 1250 or CHSM hit the airwaves on April 16, 1964, at 7 pm.
Elmer Hildebrand is Chief Executive Officer for Golden West. Hildebrand says there were a couple of reasons, six decades ago, why they decided to try and launch a radio station in Steinbach.
For starters, he says the radio signal from CFAM in Altona, born in 1957, was not very strong in Steinbach. Not only that, but Hildebrand says the commission had already turned down an application for a radio station by a group of businesspeople from Steinbach. Golden West then applied and included several businessmen from Steinbach in its application. The commission then said yes.
“That then covered the Steinbach and southeast area with a great signal,” he says.
Hildebrand says a few years later, Golden West was able to provide…
