CKFX-FM

CKFX-FM

Infobox Radio Station
name = CKFX-FM


city = North Bay, Ontario
branding = 102 FM The Fox
slogan = North Bay's best rock.
airdate = 1922 (AM)
1996 (FM)
frequency = 101.9 MHz (FM)
format = classic rock
erp = 100 kW
class = C
owner = Rogers Communications
website = [http://www.foxradio.ca/ 102 FM The Fox]
callsign_meaning =

:"CKFX" redirects here. A now-silenced shortwave transmitter of Vancouver station CKWX also used the CKFX callsign."

CKFX-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 101.9 FM in North Bay, Ontario. The station airs a classic rock format under the brand name 102 FM The Fox. Despite being branded differently, the station uses the same general format as — and shares some programming with — its Q92 sister stations CJRQ-FM in Sudbury and CJQQ-FM in Timmins.

The station was originally launched in Iroquois Falls, Ontario in 1922, as CFCH, a corporate communications service for lumber camps owned by Abitibi Power and Paper. It was subsequently acquired by Roy Thomson in 1930, and moved to North Bay. The station originally launched in North Bay at 930 on the AM dial, moving to 1230 in 1941 and then to 600 in 1942.

In 1960, Thomson's Northern Broadcasting acquired the city's television station, CKGN, which also adopted the CFCH callsign. In 1976, Northern also acquired the FM station CKAT. Thomson subsequently sold Northern Broadcasting to a local business consortium in 1974. In 1980, the stations were sold to Telemedia.

In 1996, Telemedia swapped the stations in a move similar to its 1990 switch involving CKSO and CIGM in Sudbury. CKAT took over CFCH's AM frequency, and CFCH moved to the FM station and adopted its current callsign. (The former CFCH callsign now belongs to a radio station out in Chase, British Columbia).

In 2002, Telemedia sold the stations to Standard Broadcasting, who shortly sold them to Rogers Communications.

External links

* [http://www.foxradio.ca/ 102 FM The Fox]
* [http://www.northbayhistory.homestead.com/ItemsPhotosEtc/RadioNewspapers.html North Bay History]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/radio/histories.php?id=279&historyID=812 CKFX history at Canadian Communications Foundation]
*RecnetCanada|CKFX-FM


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