CKRY-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a

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format at 105.1 FM in

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. The station uses its on-air brand name ''Country 105''. The station is owned by

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, which also owns sister stations CHQR,

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, and

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. CKRY's studios are located on 17th Ave SW near

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, while its transmitter is located at 85th Street Southwest and Old Banff Coach Road in western Calgary. As of Winter 2020, CKRY is the 5th-most-listened-to radio station in the Calgary market according to a PPM data report released by Numeris. Country 105 has been awarded Station of the Year several times, most recently in 2019. A transmitter located in Banff, Alberta, rebroadcasts the station at 93.3 FM. In December 2015, CKRY launched

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services, becoming the first station in Alberta to do so. Their HD2 sub-channel airs a simulcast of sister station CHQR. On April 1. 2016, Corus acquired

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, giving CKRY two TV stations ( CISA and CICT) for additional sister networks. CKRY is simulcast across Canada on

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References

External links

Country 105

CKRY-FM history
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