CJXY-FM

CJXY-FM

City of license	Burlington, Ontario
Broadcast area	Hamilton-Niagara Greater Toronto Area
Branding	Y108
Slogan	Y108 Rocks! (primary) Hamilton's Rock Station (secondary)
Frequency	107.9 MHz (FM)
First air date	1948
Format	mainstream rock
ERP	26,100 watts
Website	www.y108.ca

CJXY-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 107.9 FM and serving the Hamilton, Ontario market, but licensed to the nearby city of Burlington. The station broadcasts an active rock format as Y108. CJXY's studios are located on Main Street West (next to Highway 403) in Hamilton, while its transmitter is located atop the Niagara Escarpment near Burlington.

History

The station was originally launched in 1948 as FM 94.1 CHML, a simulcast of AM station CHML. The simulcast was subsequently dropped in the 1950s, leaving the station silent. The owners relaunched the FM signal on the 95.3 frequency in 1964, with distinct programming from its AM sister station. In 1967 the station adopted the new callsign CKDS, in honour of company founder Kenneth D. Soble who had died in 1966.

In 1974, CHML and CKDS were purchased by ML Radio, a division of what was to become Western International Communications. On September 1, 1991, CKDS dropped its adult contemporary/easy listening format, and adopted the CJXY callsign and a rock music format as Y95.3.

In 2000, CHML and CJXY were acquired by Corus Entertainment. The following year, CJXY swapped frequencies with Corus' CING, taking over CING's former 107.9 frequency; at the same time, it changed its moniker to Y108.

Y108 had old-time CFNY host Alan Cross as program director until 2004, when he returned to CFNY. Jim McCourtie is currently CJXY's program director. Recently, CJXY has changed to a more active rock format under the slogan 'Y108 Rocks!' with a substantial increase in current music in its playlist.

References

External links

Radio stations in Hamilton-Niagara, Ontario

Hamilton	CHAM 820 CHML 900 CKOC 1150 CFMU 93.3 CHKX 94.7 CING 95.3 CIOI 101.5 CKLH 102.9

Niagara Region	CKTB 610 CKYY 89.1 CRNC 90.1 CHQI 90.7 CIXL 91.7 CHTZ 97.7 CFLZ 101.1 CFBU 103.7 CJED 105.1 CHRE 105.7 Defunct: CJRN 710 - CHSC 1220¹

Others	CJXY 107.9 (Burlington) CKJN 92.9 (Caledonia)

HD Digital radio	94.7-1 94.7-2 95.3-1 95.3-2 95.3-3

Internet radio stations	Wave.FM

Ontario radio markets Cornwall & Eastern Ontario Hamilton-Niagara Kenora District First Nations Radio Kingston-Brockville Kitchener-Waterloo London Midwestern Ontario North Bay Ottawa Parry Sound-Muskoka-Haliburton Pembroke/Ottawa Valley Peterborough Quinte/Belleville-Trenton Rainy River Simcoe County/Barrie/Orillia Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay Timiskaming Timmins Toronto Windsor-Chatham-Sarnia See also List of radio stations in Ontario Buffalo Radio ¹ Currently internet only

Corus Entertainment

TV stations

TV
divisions

Corus Kids	Disney Channel Disney Junior Disney XD Nickelodeon Treehouse TV YTV Teletoon Canada Teletoon Cartoon Network Nelvana

Corus Média	Disney La Chaîne Historia Séries+ Télétoon

Women & Family	ABC Spark CMT Cosmopolitan TV Oprah Winfrey Network Sundance Channel W Movies W Network

Content Distribution and Pay TV	Encore Avenue HBO Canada (Western Canada and Territories) Movie Central

Corus Radio
(by call sign)

AM	CFMJ CFPL CHED CHMJ CHML CHQR CHQT CJOB CJOY CKNW

FM	CFGQ CFHK CFLG CFMI CFMK CFNY CFOX CFPL CHAY CILQ CIMJ CING CIQB CISN CJDV CJGV CJKR CJOT CJSS CJXY CKBT CKCB CKDK CKNG CKQB CKRU CKRY CKWF CKWS

Other assets

Telelatino Network

Historical brands and predecessors

Some of the assets listed above are majority-owned, wholly-owned, by Corus Entertainment, or are under license. Refer to full asset list for detailed information.

Coordinates: 43°23′12″N 79°52′33″W / 43.38667°N 79.87583°W / 43.38667; -79.87583

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, February 05, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.