CKFX-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 101.9 FM in North Bay,

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. The station airs a

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format under the brand name ''101.9 Rock''. The station uses the same general format as, and shares some programming with,

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and

CJQQ-FM CJQQ-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 92.1 FM broadcasting, FM in Timmins, Ontario. The station broadcasts a mainstream rock format as ''92.1 Rock''. History The station was originally launched in 1948 by Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Th ...

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History

The station was originally launched in

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in 1922, as CFCH, a corporate communications service for

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s owned by

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. It was subsequently acquired by Roy Thomson in 1930, and moved to North Bay. The station originally launched in North Bay at 930 on the AM dial, moving to 1230 in 1941 and then to 600 in 1942. CFCH was on the FM dial at 106.3 MHz for a brief period in the 1940s and 1950s.CFCH-FM (1947-1956)
- Canadian Communications Foundation The 106.3 MHz frequency is now occupied by CFXN-FM. In 1960, Thomson's Northern Broadcasting acquired the city's television station, CKGN, which also adopted the CFCH callsign. In 1976, Northern also acquired the FM station CKAT. Thomson subsequently sold Northern Broadcasting to a local business consortium in 1974. In 1980, the stations were sold to

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. CFCH was an affiliate of the

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and then of

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, until 1976 when

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launched. In 1996, Telemedia swapped the stations in a move similar to its 1990 switch involving CKSO and CIGM in

. CKAT took over CFCH's AM frequency, and CFCH moved to the FM station, adopted its current CKFX-FM callsign and a new branding ''102 FM The Fox''. (The former CFCH callsign recently belonged to a

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out in

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. The heritage CFCH call sign returned in North Bay at a radio station (as CFCH-FM) that was launched by

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at 90.5 FM on June 15, 2021). In 2002, Telemedia sold the stations to

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, who shortly sold them to

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. In June 2013, Rogers Communications rebranded ''102 FM The Fox'' to ''101.9 The Fox'' and changing the slogan from "North Bay's Best Rock" to "World Class Rock." On June 7, 2016, the station was rebranded ''101.9 Rock''.

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101.9 Rock

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