CKSY-FM
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| City of license | Chatham-Kent, Ontario |
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| Branding | "94.3 CKSY" |
| Slogan | Chatham-Kent's Best Music |
| Frequency | 94.3 (MHz) |
| First air date | July 1, 1986 on 95.1 FM |
| Format | Bright AC |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Owner | Blackburn Radio |
| Website | CKSY-FM |
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CKSY-FM (94.3 FM), with the tagline "Chatham-Kent's Best Music", is a mainstream Adult Contemporary radio station located in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada. The station airs a mix of music covering the 1980s through today, featuring artists such as The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, Elton John, Nickelback, Rihanna, Michael Bublé and Katy Perry.
The radio station has been on the air since July 1, 1986, and was originally using the broadcast frequency of 95.1 FM (which had previously been the frequency used by CBEE-FM, the CBC Radio One simulcaster of CBE-AM in Windsor, now at 88.1 FM). CKSY originally aired an easy listening music format branded as "Cosy," which evolved into the current AC format by the mid-1990s. For many years, the station used the tagline Chatham-Kent's Perfect Music Mix.
In 2002, CKSY switched frequencies with sister station CKUE to obtain its current frequency of 94.3 FM. Both CKSY and CKUE are owned by Blackburn Radio along with CFCO radio.
By 2010, most of the playlist at CKSY-FM would resemble an adult top 40 station, similar to its CHYR-FM sister station in Leamington, Ontario, but continues to stick with the adult contemporary realm because of adult top 40 being the official format of CHYR. CKSY could be considered a very bright AC bordering on adult top 40 since it has stopped playing or reduced airplay of such mainstream AC staple artists as Elton John, Rod Stewart, and Celine Dion.
CHYR's signal also covers Windsor and Detroit, whereas CKSY-FM's signal into the Windsor/Detroit area has been impeded by the recent sign-on of a translator station at 94.3 broadcasting a modern rock format as a simulcast of an HD Radio subchannel of Detroit's WGPR-FM, which now makes CKSY unavailable or otherwise unlistenable to many Detroit-area listeners. On the other hand, CKSY also comes in well in the Sarnia/Port Huron area, where CHYR's signal does not reach well (and where another of CKSY's sister stations, CFGX-FM, offers a traditional mainstream AC playlist similar to CKSY's former direction).
[edit] External links
- CKSY-FM
- CKSY-FM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CKSY-FM
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