CKOO-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 103.9 FM in Kelowna, British Columbia. The station broadcasts an oldies format branded as Okanagan Oldies 103.9 and is owned by Avenue Radio Ltd., which itself is a sister company of local digital news organization Castanet Media Ltd. Both are beneficially by Nick Frost and share office spaces.
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History
On March 14, 2008 the CRTC approved in part an application by Vista Radio Ltd. for a new FM station to serve Kelowna with an Adult Hits format. However, the applied for frequency of 96.1 MHz, with an average effective radiated power of 19,900 watts was rejected by the Commission as unacceptable, due to approval of another FM station application by Sun Country Cablevision to use 96.3 MHz.
Vista subsequently re-filed its application for a new frequency and on August 7 of the same year, the Commission approved the use of 103.9 MHz with an average ERP of 5,200 watts.
Call letters were assigned and Vista began testing CJUI-FM during the second week of September, asking for interference reports and identifying as "CJUI, The Juice, playing whatever". It officially signed on September 29, 2008 with morning hosts Liz McKinney, formerly of cross-town competitor CKLZ-FM, and "Moose" Trevor Stoyko, Natalee Taylor middays and Jay Stone on afternoon drive. Vista Radio's VP of Programming, Jason Mann, was quoted as saying, "The station is designed specifically for men and women 25-54 years of age. The format is really meant to super serve those aged 30-49 who grew up listening to Top 40 and rock music of the 80s, but the format is kept 'fresh' by including compatible music from the 90s and 2000s."
103.9 The Juice signed on air September 9 at 10:39AM with the song, "Juicy" by Better Than Ezra.
On January 31, 2013, the CRTC approved Vista's application to increase CJUI-FM's effective radiated power (ERP) from 5,200 to 17,300 watts (maximum ERP from 10,000 to 36,800 watts), by decreasing the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 506 to -90 metres, by relocating the transmitter site and by changing the class from C1 to C.
In October 2017, the CRTC approved a deal to sell CJUI to Avenue Radio, a company owned by J. Nicholas Frost--founder of the Okanagan news website Castanet. Avenue plans to move the station to a new facility shared with the website on Lawrence Avenue in Kelowna, and plans to increase the station's coverage of local news in the Okanagan region.
On November 1, 2017, CJUI-FM flipped to an oldies format branded as "Okanagan Oldies 103.9". Following that, on January 19, 2018, the CRTC administratively approved the callsign change from the former CJUI-FM to CKOO-FM.
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References
External links
- Official website
- CJUI-FM history - Canadian Communications Foundation
- CKOO-FM history - Canadian Communications Foundation
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CKOO-FM
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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