CJNR (AM)

CJNR was a former radio station which operated at AM 730 kHz in Blind River, Ontario, Canada.

History

In late 1957 Thomas C. Nash (owner of Nash Radio & TV Broadcasting Co.) received a licence for an AM station at Blind River, which began operating at 730 kHz on March 1, 1958. CJNR would have its transmitter in Blind River, along with studios located in Elliot Lake, Ontario.

In the 1960s or early 1970s the owner of CKNR Elliot Lake purchased CJNR. It would become a semi-satellite of CKNR which began broadcasting in 1967. The owner was or would be known as Algonquin Radio-TV Ltd. (CKCY Sault Ste. Marie).

In the mid-1980s Mid-Canada Communications was approved by the CRTC to acquire CJNR from Huron Broadcasting Limited.[1]

In 1986 CJNR received approval to disaffiliate from the CBC radio network, which is now served by CBCE-FM out of Little Current.[2] In 1990, the Pelmorex Radio Network received approval to acquire CJNR from Mid-Canada Communications.[3] In 1996, the station was sold to North Channel Broadcasters Incorporated and converted CJNR to the FM dial at 94.1 MHz,[4] which became "CKNR FM 94.1" serving Elliot Lake, Manitoulin and the North Shore on March 3, 1997. Due to the signal strength of the new 94.1 FM frequency, the former CJNR (730) Blind River, CKNS (930) Espanola and CKNR (1340) Elliot Lake AM transmitters all ceased operation thereafter.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Decision CRTC 85-146
  2. ↑ Decision CRTC 86-205
  3. ↑ Decision CRTC 90-676
  4. ↑ Decision CRTC 96-396

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, December 15, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.