CJYQ (AM)

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**CJYQ**

Broadcast area	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Branding	Radio Newfoundland
Slogan	Our Music, Our Heritage
First air date	October 25, 1950 as CJON
Frequency	930 kHz (AM)
Format	Newfoundland Music
Owner	Newcap Broadcasting
Website	http://www.radionewfoundland.net/

CJYQ, branded as Radio Newfoundland, is an AM radio station broadcasting at 930 kHz in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is owned by Newcap Broadcasting and plays predominantly Newfoundland music.

The station launched in 1950 as CJON and was owned by the Newfoundland Broadcasting Company (Geoff Stirling and Don Jamieson), which would go on to launch CJON-TV in 1955. The company would later launch additional AM stations throughout the province.

In 1977 Jamieson transferred his interest in Newfoundland Broadcasting to Stirling in exchange for the AM stations. As part of the deal, the stations changed call signs, in CJON's case to CJYQ. All the new call signs ended in "Q", so the group became known as the "Q Radio Network".

In 1983, Jamieson sold the stations to CHUM Limited. During CHUM's ownership, the Q Radio stations became oldies stations, while a new co-owned country music FM station, CKIX, was launched. In 1990, the stations were sold again to Newcap Broadcasting, which quickly converted the AM stations outside St. John's to country music (fed from CKIX). Two of the stations were closed soon after, while the others eventually converted to FM.

CJYQ, or "Classic Hits Q93" as it was known under Newcap, continued to be an apparently viable station until the late 1990s, when the station quietly dropped all but a bare minimum of announcers to read weather forecasts and the like. In 2000, when Newcap proposed to purchase the VOCM group, the longtime rival of CJYQ, it proposed to keep the latter station, which it would not have normally been entitled to do in a market the size of St. John's (where the maximum number of stations per ownership group is three). In exchange the station would air a greater amount of Canadian content than required (40% instead of 35%), of which at least half (or 20% overall) would have to be Newfoundland music.

The CRTC permitted this, and at noon on September 8, 2000, the station became "Radio Newfoundland". This may have caused some minor confusion as VOCM's AM stations had occasionally used that name for group branding in prior years. Since the changeover, CJYQ has in fact even exceeded its higher requirements, with almost 80% Newfoundland content.

Despite the recent change to the province's legal name, and although some Newfoundland musicians have recorded station IDs that seem to indicate otherwise, the station brand is not "Radio Newfoundland and Labrador". The station's signal does not reach Labrador, while there is in fact a group of Newcap-owned stations in that part of the province that are branded "Radio Labrador", which are closer in style to the VOCM/CFCB stations.