| City of license | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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| Branding | CKJS 810 AM |
| Frequency | 810 kHz (AM) |
| First air date | 1974 |
| Format | multilingual |
| Power | 10,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Owner | Evanov Communications |
| Sister stations | CFJL-FM, CHWE-FM |
| Website | CKJS 810 AM |
CKJS is a radio station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It broadcasts at 810 kHz on the AM band. The station was founded in 1974 as multilingual radio station catering to various groups within the city. In the '80's it also boasted, for a very short time, a cutting edge alternative music program (well before such programs existed on AM radio in particular) called Nightbeat, featuring its hosts and developers Mike Paci [Pacey] and Joe Miles. This program was responsible for promoting local talent and giving airplay to music that wasn't being played on mainstream radio.
The station is owned by Evanov Communications and is the only multilingual radio station in Manitoba serving more than twenty different ethnic groups. It presently has broadcasts in 19 languages.
It is housed at 520 Corydon Avenue in Winnipeg, with sister stations CFJL-FM and Energy 106.
In May 2011, Newcap announced that it was selling CKJS and CHNK-FM to Evanov Communications, pending CRTC approval.[1] On October 24, 2011, the CRTC approved Duffern Communications (aka: Evanov Communications) to acquire CKJS and its sister station CHNK-FM. [2]
CKJS airs programming in the following languages: Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. It also airs a block of Christian programming daily and on Sundays.
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