CKJN-FM

CKJN-FM
City of license Haldimand, Ontario
Branding Country 92.9
Slogan Caledonia's local radio station
Frequency 92.9 MHz (FM)
First air date 2005
Format Country music
Power 2,500 Watts average
10,000 watts peak
HAAT 109.4 meters
Class B1
Owner Vista Broadcast Group
Website www.myhaldimandnow.com

CKJN-FM is a Canadian commercial radio station, licensed to Haldimand, Ontario in 2005. Since May 2014, the station is branded on-air as Country 92.9. The station originally launched with the call sign CKNS, and adopted its current call sign and format in June 2007. Concurrently with those changes, the station adopted the brand name Jayne FM, but was rebranded again in September.

The application proposed a unique multi-genre Canadian format including a minimum 60% fully qualified Canadian content as defined by CRTC regulations. The balance of music would contain Canadian elements. This percentage was selected to enable the station to play popular music by Canadian artists that does not qualify under present rules as Canadian content.

The proposed format was inspired by Internet radio station LG73,[1] which is in turn inspired by, and an unofficial tribute to, the former Vancouver broadcast station CKLG, when it was an AM station under that brand. CKLG was never exclusively or overwhelmingly devoted to Canadian content as the Internet station or the proposed Haldimand station.

Bel-Roc suggested that they would eventually apply to rebroadcast the station on available frequencies in many other Canadian cities.

After several weeks of "test" broadcasting, CKNS 92.9 FM "officially" went on the air at 6:00 a.m. on May 15, 2006. Former CKOC 1150 on-air DJ Bob Sherwin launched the station's morning show and hosted the morning show until his death on May 16, 2007 of a heart attack. Former FM 108 on-air DJ Burt Thombs launched the station's afternoon drive show. The station broadcasts from its offices and studios on Argyle Street South in Caledonia. Some of the station's content is also broadcast by live feed directly into the Caledonia studio from remote locations across the country, formerly including Phil Kushnir's show out of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Haliburton Broadcasting Group became the controlling shareholder of Bel-Roc Communications in April 2007, and in September the company flipped CKJN's branding to Moose FM.

On April 23, 2012 Vista Broadcast Group, which owns a number of radio stations in western Canada, announced a deal to acquire Haliburton Broadcasting, in cooperation with Westerkirk Capital.[2] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on October 19, 2012.[3]

On May 26th, 2014, CKJN flipped to Country as "Country 92.9".

Application for 92.9

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the application for a station serving Haldimand, but assigned the frequency for which the station initially applied, 106.7 FM, to another station in a nearby market (CIKZ).[4] Bel-Roc Communications then applied for 92.9, from a transmitter location approximately 20 kilometers east of the original, at lower effective radiated power, but from a higher tower. A contemporaneous competing application from CHCD in nearby Simcoe, Ontario sought the adjacent frequency, 93.1, for a CHCD repeater in Haldimand.

CHCD alleged that while the parameters proposed for 106.7 would have put a signal into Hamilton, Ontario sufficient to stay with Haldimand-to-Hamilton commuters and let the station to draw on revenues from the Hamilton radio market, those now proposed for 92.9 would put inadequate signals not only into Hamilton, but into much of Haldimand itself. CHCD contested the station could only survive on advertising revenue from Simcoe and Norfolk County, even in spite a condition of license barring it from soliciting local advertising in Simcoe (and also nearby Brantford).

Individually, CHKX in Hamilton and Standard Broadcasting, owners of CKLH, CKOC and CHAM in Hamilton, also opposed the application. They contended that the proposed signal into Haldimand was indeed impaired, but that the signal into the Hamilton area was actually significantly increased. Standard argued that CKNS would no longer focus uniquely on the Haldimand community; for a time in 2005, the proposed station's own website branded it a "Haldimand/Hamilton" station. CIWV – originally co-founded by Rae Roe, who had since sold his stake and gone on to co-found CKNS – suggested that CKNS perhaps be barred from soliciting advertising in Hamilton as well.

In response to these interventions, Bel-Roc agreed that they planned to solicit advertising in Hamilton, but insisted they would focus on Haldimand listeners; they disputed other details of the opposing interventions, and argued that the new parameters were necessary to meet Industry Canada requirements regulating the use of the broadcast spectrum.

The CRTC approved CKNS' application for 92.9, and denied CHCD's for 93.1 FM.[5] This caused significant signal degradation for WBUF, the nearest station on 92.9, across the border in Buffalo, New York.

References

  1. ↑ LG73 Internet radio station from Vancouver
  2. ↑ "Westerkirk Capital Acquires Vista and Haliburton Broadcast Groups". Broadcaster, April 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-577 Various radio programming undertakings – Acquisition of assets, CRTC, October 19, 2012
  4. ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005-169
  5. ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005-596

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Coordinates: 42°56′29″N 79°50′44″W / 42.94139°N 79.84556°W / 42.94139; -79.84556

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