CKTS was an English language Canadian radio station located in Sherbrooke, Quebec. It broadcast on 900 kHz with a power of 10,000 watts as a class B station, using a directional antenna which had a slightly directional pattern during the day and a much tighter pattern at night, to protect Class-A clear-channel station XEW-AM in Mexico City at night.
The station was shut down in 2006 by its owner, Corus Entertainment.
CKTS went on the air on July 1, 1946. The station originally broadcast on 1240 kHz, and was operated by Telegram Printing & Publishing, the owner of the local weekly Sherbrooke Telegram-Observer. It was an affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Trans-Canada Network by 1957. The station moved to 900 AM in 1959, and was sold to Telemedia in the late 1960s.
During the 1970s, it also aired programming produced by Radio Bishop's, the campus radio club of Bishop's University, which would later become CJMQ-FM.
CKTS-AM 900 had its antenna farm located close to 1643 Dion Road in St-Elie d'Orford (which has since become part of Sherbrooke). The four radio towers has since been taken down and dismantled.
My Friends They Told Me Straight Into My Face
They Saw Her Coming Out From Some Old Dirty Place
Staring Right Ahead Never Said Hello
This Rotten World Is Cruel You Know
Knowing That He’s Taking My Baby Right To Hell
The Dealer’s Simply Smiling, He’s Doing Very Well
I Never Thought She’d Sell Her Soul This Way
I Warned Her Many Times But She Wants Him To Stay
If I Had Known This All Before
I’d Not Have Left Her Side That’s For Sure
Knowing That He’s Taking My Baby Right To Hell
The Dealer’s Simply Smiling, He’s Doing Very Well
Annabell Oh Annabell You’re Throwing Yourself Right
Into Hell
I Try To Help You, You’ve Lost Control Completely
Annebell Oh Annabell, I Help You Climb Out From This
Well
Just Drop The Dope I Care For You Believe Me
I Never Thought She’d Sell Her Soul This Way
I Warned Her Many Times But She Wants Him To Stay
If I Had Known This All Before
I’d Not Have Left Her Side That’s For Sure
Knowing That He’s Taking My Baby Right To Hell
The Dealer’s Simply Smiling, He’s Doing Very Well
Annabell Oh Annabell You’re Throwing Yourself Right
Into Hell
I Try To Help You, You’ve Lost Control Completely
Annebell Oh Annabell, I Help You Climb Out From This
Well
Just Drop The Dope I Care For You Believe Me
Annabell Oh Annabell You’re Throwing Yourself Right
Into Hell
I Try To Help You, You’ve Lost Control Completely
Annebell Oh Annabell, I Help You Climb Out From This
Well