CJAQ-FM (96.9

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) is a Canadian

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. The station uses the on-air brand name ''

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96.9''. It is the second "Jack" station in

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and the world, after its sister

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. CJAQ's studios are located on 7th Avenue Southwest in

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, while its transmitter is located on Patina Hill Drive Southwest in the Prominence Point neighbourhood in west Calgary. As of Winter 2020, CJAQ is the 8th-most-listened-to radio station in the Calgary market according to a PPM data report released by

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History

The station originally signed on in 1927 as CJCJ, an

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station located on 1230 AM. In the 1941 great frequency shuffle of most North American AM stations it moved to its longtime frequency of 1140. In 1950, it adopted the call letters that it would become most historically identified with by most Calgary radio listeners, CKXL (or simply "XL" for short). It adopted a

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format in 1964. On September 4, 1987, the station dropped Top 40 for

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as ''Kiss AM 1140'' with the CISS call letters. A year later, it went oldies full-time. Two talk shows ( Charles Adler and

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) were also added briefly in 1990. On August 1, 1991, the station flipped to

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as ''The Fox'' with the CFXX, and, later on, CFXL call letters. On June 3, 1996, at 1 p.m., the station moved to the FM band and changed formats to

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as ''Kiss FM'', with the CKIS calls (previously, they were used by

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-owned

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Montreal). "Pirate Radio with Chris Sheppard" was a featured show on the station at the time. The station changed calls to CHRK on October 1, 1999, and returned to

as ''Rock 97'' when Rogers acquired the station. CHRK was one of three rock stations in Calgary at the time, alongsid
Rock 107
and CJAY 92; the latter rock station still uses this brand today. The station changed to

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on July 19, 2002, and returned the "Kiss" branding to the station. On April 1, 2003, at midnight, the station returned to its CKIS calls and flipped to its current format. The station flipped call signs with CJAQ in

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in June 2009, after the Toronto station was rebranded from "Jack FM" to "Kiss".

Previous Jack FM logos

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Rebroadcasters

CJAQ-FM has repeaters in Alberta and

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: ¹ In 1997, rebroadcaster CJAQ-FM-1 received

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approval to operate at 94.3 FM,Decision CRTC 97-605
/ref> until it moved to its current frequency at 94.1 FM in 2004.

References

External links

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CJAQ-FM history
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