CFLY-FM
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| City of license | Kingston, Ontario |
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| Broadcast area | Kingston, Ontario |
| Branding | 98-3 Fly FM |
| Slogan | "Today's Best Music" |
| Frequency | 98.3 MHz |
| First air date | 1953 |
| Format | hot adult contemporary |
| ERP | 100,000 W |
| Owner | CTVglobemedia |
| Website | flyfmkingston.com |
CFLY is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 98.3 FM in Kingston, Ontario. The station broadcasts a hot adult contemporary radio format branded as 98.3 FLY-FM. The station broadcasts with 100,000 watts of power from its trasmitter located in Harrowsmith Ontario.
The station was launched in 1953 as CKLC-FM, by St. Lawrence Broadcasting. AM sister station CKLC was launched at the same time. The station's original frequency was 99.5, and it was an affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Dominion Network. CKLC-FM 99.5's original purpose back in 1953 was to provide a reliable audio link for CKLC-AM 1380, which broadcast from a 4 tower array on Wolfe Island Ontario. Equalized Bell Telephone broadcast lines were not reliable out to Wolfe Island back in 1953, and the FM signal carried the program feed of CKLC-AM, which was received at the AM transmitter site over the air, and re-broadcast on the 1380 AM signal. Eventually, the Bell line problem was resolved, and the programming on CKLC-FM gradually became its own.
CKLC-FM moved to 98.3 in 1973, and adopted its current callsign (CFLY) in 1978.
The stations were acquired by CHUM Limited in 1998. Since the 1980's, FLY-FM has programmed some variety of Adult Contemporary. In 1998 the station moved to a Hot Adult-Contemporary format, and in 2001 moved back to a regular Adult Contemporary format. In 2007, the station moved back to a Hot Adult Contemporary format.
With the change back to a Hot Adult Contemporary format, 98.3 FLY-FM has seen an upward trend in the ratings in Kingston, and re-gained the #1 ranking of listeners 12+ in the Kingston CMA with a 16.8% share during the S4-2007 BMM ratings survey.
The on-air lineup as of February 2008 is:
Brian Scott & Shauna Cunningham - Mornings 5:30am - 9:00am
Carl Richards - Middays - 9a-Noon
Dan Mellon - Middays - Noon-3pm
Candace Drover - Afternoons 3pm-7pm
Sound Lounge with Chris Biggs - Evenings 7pm-11pm
On June 22, 2007 the stations were handed over to CTVglobemedia.
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