CJOS-FM (''Bounce 92.3'') is a Canadian

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

, that broadcasts an adult hits format at 92.3 FM in

Owen Sound, Ontario Owen Sound ( 2021 Census population 21,612) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The county seat of Grey County, it is located at the mouths of the Pottawatomi and Sydenham Rivers on an inlet of Georgian Bay. The primary tourist attractio ...

. The station is owned by

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History

On May 9, 2008,

Larche Communications Larche Communications was a Canadian media company, which operated four radio stations in the province of Ontario. The company was named for its president, Paul Larche. Based in Midland, Ontario, Midland, the company began in 1997 when it acquired ...

received approval from the

CRTC The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; french: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes, links=) is a public organization in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasti ...

to operate a new FM radio station at 92.3 MHz in Owen Sound. The CJOS call sign formerly belonged to a religious station in Caronport,

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...

, which ceased broadcasting in 2006. On June 9, 2010, CJOS received CRTC approval to decrease their

effective radiated power Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter. It is the total power in watts that would h ...

from 20,000 watts to 9,400 watts. The station officially signed on the air with a mix of rock music and

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980 ...

as ''92.3 The Dock'' - ''The Greatest Hits of All Time'' on July 26, 2010. On August 9, 2017,

announced that it would acquire CJOS from

. Bell Media received approval from the CRTC on February 14, 2018. As part of a mass format reorganization by Bell Media, on May 18, 2021, CJOS dropped its ''92.3 The Dock'' branding, shifted to adult hits, and adopted the ''Bounce'' branding.Bell Media Bounces 25 Stations Across Canada to New Variety Hits Brand
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References

External links

Bounce 92.3
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