CJEZ-FM
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| Broadcast area | Toronto, Ontario |
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| Branding | EZRock |
| Slogan | A Better Variety of Yesterday and Today Toronto's Soft Rock with less talk |
| Frequency | 97.3 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | 1987 |
| Format | adult contemporary |
| ERP | 28.9 kW |
| Owner | Astral Media |
| Website | http://www.ezrock.com |
CJEZ-FM is a radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It broadcasts an adult contemporary format at 97.3 FM, and it identifies itself on-air as EZ Rock.
The station was launched in 1987 by Redmond Broadcasting as an easy listening station. It was acquired by Telemedia in 1995, and subsequently adopted its current format and branding. Several other Telemedia-owned stations broadcasting a similar format in other cities were later branded EZ Rock as well.
When Standard Broadcasting acquired Telemedia in 2002, CJEZ was one of the stations retained by Standard, although some of the other EZ Rock stations were sold to Rogers Communications or Astral Media. Many of them continued to use the EZ Rock brand.
CJEZ competes most closely with fellow adult contemporary station CHFI at 98.1. In the mid-2000s, it picked up veteran CHFI morning show host Erin Davis after that station cancelled her show with Bob Magee in favour of Mad-Dog and Billie, later known as Jay and Billie, younger morning hosts who had previously worked in contemporary hit and urban radio at KISS 92 FM. In 2005, CHFI rehired Davis for mornings, also hiring her co-host, longtime CJEZ morning host Mike Cooper.
CJEZ along with the rest of the Standard Broadcasting assets were sold to Astral Media on October 29 2007.
For its new morning show, CJEZ hired Stu Jeffries and Colleen Rusholme away from Country 95.3.
"My Music at Work", then a slogan for the station, inspired the title of The Tragically Hip's 2000 album Music At Work.
[edit] Hosts
- Stu Jeffries and Colleen Rusholme, weekday morning show from 2005
- Darryl Henry, weekday middays
- Kris James (as KJ), weekday afternoon drive time and Saturday 70s
- Troy McCallum, weekend afternoons and swing shifts
- Hailey Bryant, weekend mornings
- Delilah, syndicated weekday/Sunday evenings 9 p.m.-2 a.m.
- John Tesh, syndicated early evening/overnight show.
[edit] Former hosts
- Mike Cooper, former weekday morning co-host (with Cardoso) and (Davis); left October 2005 to join Erin Davis @ CHFI 98.1
- Erin Davis, maternity leave substitute for Christine Cardoso as weekday morning co-host with (Cooper), 2004–2005 and returned to CHFI
- Jay Nelson (Frank Coxe), late weekday morning co-host
- Christine Cardoso, weekday morning co-host with (Cooper); left Summer 2005
- Ron Young, weekends and swing shifts, and Studio 97 - now with Mix 99.9 FM
- John Majhor - late weekday morning host
- Trevor Biggs - weekend morning host 2000-2002
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