CIKT-FM 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 98.9 FM in

Grande Prairie Grande Prairie is a city in northwest Alberta, Canada within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) and Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), a ...

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. The station is branded as ''98.9 Rewind Radio'' and is owned by

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History

The station was originally granted a

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 ...

license on November 15, 2006, authorizing it to broadcast on 103.3 FM. After early testing determined that its planned transmitter site was not suitable, the station applied for a license amendment to move its transmitter and to change its frequency to 98.9.Grande Prairie, Alberta Application No. 2007-0060-1 (CRTC)
/ref> The station began broadcasting on April 9, 2007 at 12:00PM as ''Q99'', airing a

hot adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet ...

format. The station was purchased by

in October 2015. In 2019, the station moved towards an adult hits format, focusing on music from the 70’s to the 2000’s. In September 2021, the station rebranded to ''98.9 Rewind Radio''.

Former logo

References

External links

98.9 Rewind Radio
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