CJNI-FM (95.7 MHz) is a Canadian

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. CJNI has a

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/ Talk/

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branded as ''

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95.7''. The station is owned by

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which also owns

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CFLT-FM. CJNI-FM is currently the only

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News/Talk/Sports station in

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. Studios and offices are on Young Street in Halifax, while the

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is located on Washmill Lake Drive in Clayton Park.

Programming

On weekdays, CJNI has an all-news block during morning

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s. Middays and afternoons, two talk shows are heard, hosted by Todd Veinotte and Jeff Marek. Overnight and early weekend mornings, CJNI carries the national Rogers all-news service, shared with CFTR

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CKWX CKWX (1130 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Owned by Rogers Sports & Media, it broadcasts an news/ talk radio format branded as ''CityNews 1130''. CKWX's studios and offices are located at 2440 Ash ...

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and

CIWW CIWW (1310 kHz, ''CityNews Ottawa'') is a commercial AM radio station in Ottawa, Ontario, owned by Rogers Sports & Media, and branded as ''CityNews Ottawa''. It simulcasts a News/ Talk radio format, along with co-owned 101.1 CJET-FM. The r ...

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. "An Hour To Give" with Sam Laprade and "The Big Story" podcast run on the weekend mornings, along with "The Weekend Gardener" with Niki Jabbour during the noon hours. In the evening and weekend afternoons, CJNI carries

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. The station features play-by-play from three teams:

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, and the

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in the

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History

On November 26, 2004,

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received approval from the

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(CRTC) for a new English-language News/Talk commercial FM radio station in Halifax to operate at 95.7 MHz. The station officially

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the air on October 11, 2005, at 5:30a.m. The station was networked with

CKNI-FM CKNI-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 91.9 FM in Moncton, New Brunswick. Owned by Acadia Broadcasting, the station broadcasts an adult contemporary format branded as ''91.9 The Bend''. CKNI's studios and offices are located at Jon ...

Moncton Moncton (; ) is the most populous city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the geographic centre of the Maritime Provinces. The city has earned the nickname "Hub City" because of ...

, and

CHNI-FM CHNI-FM (88.9 MHz) is a Canadian FM radio station in Saint John, New Brunswick. The station airs an classic/active rock format branded as ''Q88.9''. It is owned by the Stingray Group. History On November 26, 2004, Rogers Media received CRTC ...

in Saint John, until August 2014, when those two stations were sold to separate owners and flipped to music formats. In June 2021, Rogers announced that it would rebrand CJNI and its other all-news and

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/ talk radio stations under the ''

'' brand beginning October 18, 2021. This was despite the fact that

Citytv Citytv is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The licence of the original Citytv station, granted the callsign of CITY-TV by the CRTC on November 25, 1971 to Cable Television ...

does not operate in the region, only being available in Atlantic Canada on cable and satellite as an out-of-market distant signal.

Former Logos

References

External links

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