CKBZ-FM is a

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. Broadcasting at 100.1 FM, the station airs a

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format (per reporting status on

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) branded as ''B-100''. The station is currently owned by the

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. The station was first launched in 1926 as CFJC 1120 AM, owned by the local N. S. Dalgliesh & Son department store. It was acquired by the ''Kamloops Sentinel'' in 1932, and changed frequency the following year to 1310. The station became an affiliate of the

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, a corporate precursor to the

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, and retained an affiliation with CBC Radio's main network afterward. Its frequency subsequently changed to 800 AM in 1934, 880 in 1935 and 910 in 1941. The ''Sentinel'' finally sold the station to Inland Broadcasters in 1957. Sister station CFJC-FM was launched in 1962. CFJC dropped its CBC affiliation in 1977 when the CBC launched

CBYK-FM CBYK-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network in Kamloops, British Columbia. The station airs at 94.1 FM in Kamloops. History The station was established in 1977 as a local rebroadcaster of V ...

, then a local rebroadcaster of

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's CBU. The station then moved to its final AM frequency, 550, in 1979. CFJC and its FM sister station were acquired by the Jim Pattison Group, their current owner, in 1987. Pattison converted CFJC to its current FM frequency,

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format and call sign in 2001. By December

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, the station switched formats to

, dropping most classic hits from the playlist, and going head-to-head up against

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-leaning CHR/Top 40 station

CKRV-FM CKRV-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 97.5 FM in Kamloops, British Columbia. The station broadcasts a classic rock format branded as ''K 97.5'', and prior to 2010, it had a hot adult contemporary format. Even though as a top 40 st ...

(which had been

hot AC 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, ...

up until 2010). CKBZ-FM had been a reporter on the

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Canadian hot adult contemporary panels before the switch to hot AC. CKBZ-FM was the last

station reporter on the Mediabase Canadian hot AC panels, while the only non-hot AC stations on those panels such as CKRV-FM,

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and

CICF-FM CICF-FM (105.7 MHz) is a Canadian radio station in Vernon, British Columbia with a country format branded on-air as ''105.7 The Ranch''. The station is owned by Vista Radio. The station began broadcasting on October 23, 1978 at 1050 kHz as CKAL. ...

were CHR instead.

Rebroadcasters

The Logan Lake TV Society also rebroadcasts CKBZ at 91.1 FM in their area.

References

External links

B-100

CKBZ-FM
at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the

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