CJMJ-FM (100.3 FM) is a commercial radio station in

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, Canada. The station uses its on-air brand name ''

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100'', and airs an

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format. CJMJ is owned by

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, along with three other Ottawa radio stations and two TV stations. CJMJ's studios and offices are located in the Bell Media Building on George Street in

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, while its

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is located on the Ryan Tower in Camp Fortune, Quebec, within

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. CJMJ broadcasts in the

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format. Its HD2 subchannel carries the

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programming of

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CFRA, while co-owned

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station CFGO is heard on an HD3 subchannel.

History

On November 9, 1989,

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, owner of CFGO, was granted a license for a new FM station. Rawlco proposed to use the frequency 92.1 MHz, but that conflicted with CBO-FM, located on 91.5 MHz. On April 5, 1991, Rawlco's application to use the 100.3 MHz frequency was granted. The station's

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(ERP) would be 80,000 watts. On August 12, 1991, at 6:25pm, the station signed on for the first time, with the official launch the following morning at 6 am. The first song on "Majic" was " Do You Believe in Magic" by

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. On March 11, 1992, the station increased its power to 100,000 watts, with a transmitter on the Ryan Tower in Camp Fortune. CJMJ was acquired by

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in 1999. CHUM Ltd. was, in turn, acquired by

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in 2007, and

in 2011. Despite the ownership changes, CJMJ's

soft 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 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

format helped it become one of the top stations in Ottawa for most of the 1990s. In the early 2000s, CJMJ, like most AC stations, moved to a more upbeat direction. Around 2005, CJMJ was overtaken in the ratings by

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outlet

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. CJMJ usually is ranked in the Top 5 Anglophone ratings for the Ottawa/Gatineau market according to BBM. As of 2010, due to increased competition from

station CJWL-FM (which leans towards soft adult contemporary content), CJMJ ended its longtime

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show airing on Sunday mornings and added more upbeat

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songs to the

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. All 1960s music and most 1970s titles have been dropped as of mid-2013.

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and Nielsen BDS report the station on the Canadian AC panel. On December 27, 2020, as part of a mass format reorganization by Bell Media, CJMJ rebranded as ''

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References

External links

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