CJAQ-FM

CJAQ-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 96.9 FM in Calgary, Alberta. The station uses the on-air brand name Jack FM. It is the second Jack FM station in Canada and the world, after its sister CKLG-FM in Vancouver.

As of Fall 2011, CJAQ is ranked #8 in the Calgary market ratings according to BBM Canada.^[1]

History

The station originally signed on back in 1927 as CJCJ, an AM radio station and has gone through various ownerships, callsigns, frequencies and formats over the years' most notably from 1964 to 1987 as CKXL 1140 then owned and operated by Moffatt Broadcasting. In 1996, the station moved to the FM band and changed formats to a country music/top 40 hybrid as Kiss FM, with the CKIS calls (previously, they were used by CHUM Radio-owned CKGM Montreal, its original calls).^[2] "Pirate Radio with Chris Sheppard" was a featured show on the station at the time. The station changed calls to CHRK in 1999 and format to classic rock as Rock 97 when Rogers acquired the station. The station changed to urban music in July 2002 and returned the Kiss branding to the station (KISS 96.9). On April 1, 2003 at midnight MT, the station returned to its CKIS calls and flipped to its current format.

The station flipped call signs with CJAQ in Toronto, Ontario in June 2009, after the Toronto station was rebranded from Jack FM to Kiss 92.5.

Rebroadcasters

CJAQ-FM has repeaters in Alberta and British Columbia:

¹ In 1997, rebroadcaster CJAQ-FM-1 received CRTC approval to operate at 94.3 FM,^[3] until it moved to its current frequency at 94.1 FM in 2004.

References

External links

• 96.9 Jack FM
• CJAQ-FM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CKIS-FM
• CKXL HISTORY-PHOTOS 1971-1972