CIOC-FM (98.5 MHz), is a

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. It is owned by

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and it broadcasts an

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, switching to

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for much of November and December. Its

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s are located at 817 Fort Street in

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. CIOC-FM has an

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(ERP) of 100,000

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s, the maximum for most Canadian FM stations. The

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is off Fulton Road in Victoria.

History

In 1955, the station

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as CKDA-FM. It

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the signal of then-AM

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CKDA using 370 watts of power, with both stations owned by Capital Broadcasting System Ltd. The original transmitter was located in the "rack-room" of CKDA's studios. The FM transmitter was the studio transmitter link to the AM transmitter site on Chatham Island. In compliance with revised government regulations discouraging simulcasting, CKDA-FM became CFMS-FM at 6:00 PM on March 21, 1965. It began broadcasting separate programming, an

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format between noon and midnight seven days a week before later going to an 18-hour-a-day schedule (7:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.) in May 1966. It later switched to a 24-hour-a-day broadcasting schedule. It aired quarter hour sweeps of mostly soft instrumental

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s of popular songs. In later years, CFMS switched to a mixed format of

music (from 6:00 AM–7:00 PM weekdays and 6:00 AM–6:00 PM weekends) and

instrumentals (in the evenings and overnight). On September 1, 1995, Capital Broadcasting sold CKDA and CFMS, with CKDA going to OK Radio Group, the owners of

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, and CFMS picked up by CJVI (owned by Rogers Communications). On December 11, CFMS changed to its current full-time adult contemporary format and switched its

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to the current CIOC. On March 25, 2010, CIOC was denied by the

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to add a new FM transmitter at

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. If the application was approved, the new transmitter at Saltspring Island would have broadcast on 98.5 MHz, the same frequency as CIOC's main transmitter in Victoria. On September 13, 2010, the station reapplied to add a repeater at Saltspring Island and received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approval on February 23, 2011.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-123
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References

External links

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