CKCW-FM
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| City of license | Moncton, New Brunswick |
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| Branding | K94.5 |
| Slogan | Today's Best Music |
| Frequency | 94.5 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | December 4, 1934 |
| Format | Adult top 40 |
| Callsign meaning | Canada Knows Country and Western (during its days as a country music station) |
| Owner | Maritime Broadcasting System |
| Sister stations | CFQM-FM, CHOY-FM |
| Website | K94.5 |
CKCW-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at a frequency of 94.5 MHz in Moncton, New Brunswick. The station plays an adult top 40 format and is owned by the Maritime Broadcasting System.
CKCW originally began broadcasting on December 4, 1934 at 1370 kHz with 100 watts of power. The station was owned by Moncton Broadcasting Ltd. managed and owned by F.A. (Fred) Lynds. The frequency changed to 1400 kHz in 1941, and to 1220 kHz in 1946. Eastern Radio Broadcasting, the forerunner of MBS, purchased CKCW in 1972. CKCW was the only privately owned AM radio station ever to operate in Moncton. In 1976, a companion station was granted a licence to operate on the FM band, the first in Moncton, at frequency 103.9. CFQM-FM went on the air in 1977.
A co-owned television station, CKCW-TV, signed on in 1954 but was sold to CHUM Limited in 1969. It is now part of the CTV Atlantic (formerly ATV) network.
During the 1990s, CKCW had a soft adult contemporary format, then in 1994 switched to an oldies format. In August 1998, CKCW 1220 did a format flip to country music with sister station CFQM which would be branded as an Adult Contemporary station.
In 2001, CKCW moved to the FM band [1] and changed to a contemporary hit radio format branded as "Moncton's Newest Music K94.5". The new K 94.5 enjoyed early success with the new music format, however, constant tweaking of the format and lack of advertising led to the downfall of the format. By 2009, when sister station CFQM-FM moved from adult contemporary to classic hits, the station switched to its current format, as Mediabase and Nielsen BDS moved the station to the hot adult contemporary panel. A month later, sister station CIOK-FM in Saint John, New Brunswick did the same thing by moving from adult contemporary to contemporary hit radio, even though it is another station using the same K branding.
CKCW was the station to first hire international syndicated radio star AJ Reynolds.
CIOK-FM was never listed on Mediabase until March 2011, but used the same adds as CKCW-FM even after the adult top 40 shifts at those stations in 2009. As of August 2011, MBS's website shows that CKCW-FM's, and their sister station CIOK-FM's, formats as being CHR or Contemporary Hit Radio.[2]
[edit] Former on-air personality 1970' onward
- Dave Lockhart (1973-2006)
- Brother Jake Edwards
- Doug Pond
- Bob Powers
- Garnet Dee
- Chris Scott
- Scotty Horseman
- Marty Kingston
- Troy Tait
- Steve Power
- Wayne Spencer (1975-2002)
- Sandy Gillis
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- K94.5
- CKCW-FM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CKCW-FM
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