CKDV-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 ...

broadcasting at 99.3 FM in

Prince George, British Columbia Prince George is the largest city in northern British Columbia, Canada, with a population of 74,004 in the metropolitan area. It is often called the province's "northern capital" or sometimes the "spruce capital" because it is the hub city for ...

. The station plays a

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 198 ...

format branded as ''99.3 Rewind Radio''. The station is owned by

Jim Pattison Group The Jim Pattison Group is a Canadian Conglomerate (company), conglomerate based in Vancouver. In a recent survey by the Financial Post, the firm was ranked as Canada's 62nd largest company. Jim Pattison, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur, is the ch ...

History

The station was originally launched in 1946 as CKPG 1230 AM, and moved to 550 the following year. The station, owned by CKPG Radio Ltd., was an affiliate of the CBC's

Trans-Canada Network The Trans-Canada Network was the name assigned to the main English-language radio network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to distinguish it from the CBC's second network, the Dominion Network. Today, it is known as CBC Radio One. The Tra ...

. In 1961, CKPG Radio also launched the city's first television station,

CKPG-TV CKPG-TV ( analogue channel 2) is a television station in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, affiliated with Citytv. The station is owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, and maintains studios on 3rd Avenue (near Winnipeg Street) in Pri ...

. The stations were acquired by Q Broadcasting in 1969. In 1981, a sister FM station, CIOI, was launched. The three stations were sold to

Monarch Broadcasting Monarch Cablesystems, LTD. is a now-defunct cable television and internet service provider in British Columbia and portions of Alberta in Western Canada, and also operates Monarch TV-10, a community channel on Cable 10. Monarch was founded in the ...

in 1990, and then to the

in 2000. Pattison converted CKPG to its current call sign, frequency and format in 2003. Also in 2003, CKDV-FM added a rebroadcaster at Mackenzie on 1240 AM. The transmitter in Mackenzie was formerly a separate radio station, CKMK. Its license as a separate station was revoked when it became a rebroadcaster of CKDV-FM, although the transmitter still uses the CKMK call sign. By March 7, 2011 at 6:00 a.m., the station flipped to

from

classic rock Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, prim ...

(the format that debuted on the station after the station converted to FM), leaving

mainstream rock Mainstream rock (also known as heritage rock) is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations in the United States and Canada. Format background Mainstream rock stations represent the middle ground between classic rock and active rock ...

station CIRX-FM as Prince George's only rock station again. Although

songs are generally also played by

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 ...

and adult hits stations, this brings gold-based pop back to Prince George when

CKKN-FM CKKN-FM, branded as ''101.3 The River'', is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 101.3 FM in Prince George, British Columbia. The station is owned by the Jim Pattison Group, which also owns sister station ...

flipped to

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 ...

as ''The River'' from its old ''Hits FM''

format. In September 2021, CKDV-FM rebranded to ''99.3 Rewind Radio'' retaining the classic hits format.

Former Logo

References

External links

99.3 Rewind Radio
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