City of license | Windsor, Ontario |
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Branding | Country 95-9 |
Slogan | The Motor Cities Country |
Frequency | 95.9 (MHz) |
First air date | November 16, 2009 |
Format | Country |
Power | 14kW (ERP) |
Owner | Blackburn Radio |
Website | Country 95-9 |
CJWF-FM, branded as Country 95-9, is a Windsor, Ontario radio station. The station broadcasts a country music format at 95.9 FM.
The radio station can be heard in the northern Detroit suburbs as far north as Lapeer County into Michigan.
Owned by Blackburn Radio, the station was licenced on May 9, 2008.[1] The station began test broadcasts on the night of September 22, 2009 in the wake of WDTW-FM flipping from country to rhythmic adult contemporary , along with appeals for the reporting of technical problems with reception.
The station officially launched on the morning of November 16, 2009 at 8am as "Windsor's FM 95-9". The first song played was "Welcome to the Future" by Brad Paisley.
On September 7, 2010 the station rebranded itself as "Country 95-9, The Motor Cities Country". Later that month on September 22, 2010, the state began broadcasting station information, which can be seen on Radio Data System-enabled radios. From November 26-December 26, 2010, The Station switched to an all Christmas Country format for the holidays.
On December 13, 2011, an application by Neeti P. Ray, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated (OBCI) to change CJNR-FM's (CJWF-FM) frequency from 95.9 MHz to 102.3 MHz. [2]
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