Flames games are moving to 770 AM.
Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation and Corus Entertainment announced an exclusive five-year partnership Wednesday morning covering all Calgary Flames radio broadcasts. Every home and road game will air on QR Calgary 770 AM.
Why the team needed a station
Rogers Sports and Media took Sportsnet 960 The Fan off the air on July 7, along with Calgary sister station 660 NewsRadio.
Sportsnet 960, call letters CFAC, had been the Flames' radio home since 2001. Its closure left the broadcasts without a station weeks before the season.
"We're excited to share this news with our fans and, most importantly, to let them know we heard them loud and clear as we now have a new home for the future of Calgary Flames radio broadcasts," CSEC president and CEO Robert Hayes said.
"Corus has stepped up as a tremendous partner, working closely with us over recent weeks to ensure Flames games remain accessible to our fans throughout the season. Their commitment and collaboration have been invaluable in preserving an important connection with the C of Red, whether they're listening at home, in their vehicles or wherever the game may take them."
We reported in July that nobody had picked it up
The July 7 closures took out six stations across four markets: Sportsnet 960 and 660 NewsRadio in Calgary, Sportsnet 650 and News 1130 in Vancouver, 95.7 NewsRadio in Halifax and 570 NewsRadio in Kitchener. The cuts hit 230 positions company-wide, 80 of them in radio.
"After a thorough review of our radio stations, we have made the difficult but necessary decision to close six radio stations in four markets due to declining audience and revenue trends," Rogers spokesperson Zac Carreiro said at the time.
Vancouver had somewhere to go. Canucks radio production moved to another Rogers station in that market. Calgary had no other Rogers station, which is why Flames radio ended rather than relocated.
At the time we wrote that no broadcaster had announced plans to pick it up. That answer took five weeks.
Corus is calling it a full circle
"We are thrilled to welcome the Calgary Flames back home," said Tammy Cole, vice-president of audio at Corus Entertainment. According to Corus, QR Calgary 770 AM broadcast the Stanley Cup-winning team's games in 1989.
"This partnership represents a full circle moment, and we're proud to build on our shared history while creating a new chapter for fans as they continue to follow and support their team for years to come."
A new daily show
CSEC says further announcements about the on-air team and additional programming will follow.
One is already named. Flames Now, a daily sports talk show, is in development at QR Calgary, giving fans game analysis and team news.
The announcement doesn't identify a single on-air name. Several people from the Sportsnet 960 broadcast team are expected to move over, according to Postmedia, but neither company has confirmed anyone.
The part that matters most
Radio stays free.
The cost of following an NHL team in Canada keeps climbing. Sportsnet's streaming platform has raised its monthly price, and Wednesday games are being sublicensed to Amazon Prime. Sportsnet remains the Flames' regional television rights partner, and in 2024 Rogers and the team extended that exclusive deal by 11 seasons.
None of that touches the radio call. Anyone in range of 770 AM hears every game without paying anything, in a car, in a shop, on a tractor.
That matters more outside Calgary than in it. AM signals carry further at night than FM, which is why a Calgary station has always been audible well beyond the city after dark.
One scheduling wrinkle
QR Calgary is now the radio home of both the Flames and the Stampeders, whose longstanding deal with the station was extended earlier this year. Both teams are owned by CSEC.
Which raises the obvious question about nights when both play. It happens once this season, on October 10, when the Flames face the Anaheim Ducks and the Stampeders play the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Corus handles this elsewhere already. It carries both the NHL and CFL clubs in Winnipeg and in Edmonton.
Five years spans two buildings
The deal runs through a change of address.
CSEC operates the Scotiabank Saddledome, home to the Flames, Wranglers, Hitmen and Roughnecks, and is developing Scotia Place with the City of Calgary. That building is scheduled to open in 2027.
So the first season of this partnership is the last full one at the Saddledome, and the remaining four are at the new arena.
What still hasn't been replaced
Wednesday's announcement solves the sports problem. It doesn't touch the other one.
660 NewsRadio was Calgary's only all-news radio station, carrying breaking news, traffic, weather and civic affairs around the clock. Nobody has picked that up.
A city of 1.7 million has no dedicated news radio, in a summer that has already produced tornado warnings, red-alert hail warnings and flood advisories across southern Alberta. Radio is the medium that still works when the power is out and the cell network is congested.
The Flames got their station back. Calgary didn't get its newsroom back.
Sources
CSEC, Corus Entertainment Announce Five Year Radio Broadcast Partnership — Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation and Corus Entertainment, August 12, 2026
Rogers Sports and Media, statement from spokesperson Zac Carreiro, July 7, 2026
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