CJDJ-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102.1 FM in

Saskatoon Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway, and has served as ...

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. The station, owned by

Rawlco Communications Rawlco Radio Ltd. is a media company based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The company is the sole proprietor of seven radio stations in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Rawlco Radio Corporate Office is just south of Downtown Sa ...

, broadcasts an

active rock Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge ...

format as ''Rock 102''. It shares studio space with sister stations

CFMC CFMC-FM, known on air as ''C95'', is a Canadian radio station in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It shares studio space with sister stations CKOM and CJDJ-FM at 715 Saskatchewan Crescent West, also the home of Rawlco Radio's Corporate Office ...

and CKOM at 715 Saskatchewan Crescent West, also the home of Rawlco Radio's Corporate Offices.

History

The station received approval by the CRTC in 1989 Decision CRTC 89-389
/ref> and originally launched in 1990 as CHSN-FM, an

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 ...

station branded as ''Sun 102'' and owned by Highline Broadcasting. The station was later purchased by Elmer Hildebrand, and operated by Rawlco under a local management agreement with the name ''102.1 the River''. In 1998 the call letters were changed to CKOM, and the station changed to a format similar to the

oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as wel ...

previously played on 650 AM. The AM station became CINT, broadcasting as ''650 NTR'' with a news/ talk format that it retains to this day. CKOM FM102 was later purchased by Rawlco on December 21, 2000. Noting market demand for a dedicated

rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm an ...

station in the city, on April 18, 2001, at 6 a.m. Saskatoon time, CKOM-FM changed its format from

to rock, styling itself as CKOM ''Rock 102''. In 2002, the CKOM call letters returned to 650 AM, giving way to the current name and call letters. The CHSN-FM callsign and format were subsequently adopted by Golden West Broadcasting on a new station in Estevan.

References

External links

Rock 102 website
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