250 Richmond Street West

Coordinates: 43°38′59″N 79°23′22″W / 43.6496°N 79.3894°W / 43.6496; -79.3894
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The CHUM neon sign at 250 Richmond Street West

250 Richmond Street West is a studio complex in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The building now serves as the headquarters of iHeartRadio Canada's national radio operations of Bell Media, and as the studios of the company's Toronto radio stations, CHUM-FM (CHUM 104.5), CFRB (Newstalk 1010) and CKFM-FM (99.9 Virgin Radio).

The building previously served as the home of the Go Gos, Whiskey Saigon and Joe nightclubs.

The building is located at the corner of Richmond and Duncan Streets and is connected with

Space are based as well as select CTV
programming.

CHUM and CHUM-FM's previous headquarters were located at

1331 Yonge Street until CTV announced it would sell the building to developer Aspen Ridge Homes for $21.5 million in July 2008.[2] CTV also announced it would move the CHUM neon sign to the new complex, the sign was unveiled at its new location on June 15, 2009, and the company's Toronto radio stations officially moved into the new complex on August 19, 2009.[3][4][5]

The building also briefly served as home to

Newcap Radio on March 31, 2014. When Bell Canada acquired Astral Media they were required by the Competition Bureau to divest a number of certain assets. As a media company in Canada cannot own more than two FM and two AM English radio stations in any one market, Flow 93.5 was subsequently sold while NewsTalk 1010 and Virgin 99.9
were kept through the purchase of Astral. The studios for CFRB and CKFM-FM were previously located at 2 St. Clair Avenue at Yonge and St. Clair until these stations moved to the complex on May 10, 2014.

Until 2010, the building was also home to

's television network.

References

  1. ^ Heritage Property details
  2. ^ Scott Fybush, Northeast Radio Watch Archived 2002-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, July 28, 2008.
  3. eye weekly
    , August 5, 2008
  4. ^ "The CHUM sign's new home". Toronto Star, June 12, 2009.
  5. ^ Theresa Boyle, "CHUM site slated for luxury condos", Toronto Star, July 29, 2008.

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