Editing CKAC (section)

===Telemedia/Radiomutuel merger===
CKAC ran into ratings difficulties in the early 1990s, mostly because of a resurgence from CJMS. These difficulties had a disproportionate economic impact on CKAC because of the [[recession]] that was particularly difficult in Montreal, and Quebec in general. In addition, radio in Quebec was generally suffering from the appearance of the new [[TQS]] TV network, which provoked a severe advertising [[price war]].

Because of these factors, Telemedia merged its Quebec AM radio operations with [[Radiomutuel]] on September 30, 1994, to form the new [[Radiomédia]] network, and six AM stations across Quebec closed that very same day at 6 pm, including competitor CJMS 1280. Radiomutuel acquired 50% of CKAC, with the remainder still being owned by Telemedia (both companies continued to compete on the FM side). While CKAC survived thanks to its superior signal (compared to CJMS), most of the new programming included hosts from CJMS, and the merged newsroom was dominated by former Radiomutuel journalists.

The merger did help CKAC to regain many of its lost listeners and market shares, but still CKAC did not dominate in ratings as it used to do. Even the format switch of competitor CKVL to [[all-news radio]] in late 1999, did not prop up CKAC in any significant manner. CKAC actually started to lose significant numbers of listeners to [[Première Chaîne]] ([[CBF-FM]] 95.1) in the early 2000s.