CFJB-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 95.7 FM in

Barrie Barrie is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada, about north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay, the western arm of Lake Simcoe. Although physically in Simcoe County, Barrie is politically ...

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...

. The station broadcasts an active rock format branded as "Rock 95". Owned by

Central Ontario Broadcasting Central Ontario Broadcasting is a Canadian media company, which operates in Southern and Central Ontario. Founded in 1988, Central Ontario Broadcasting independently owns and operates three radio stations: Indie88 CIND-FM, branded as ''Indie8 ...

(Rock 95 Broadcasting (Barrie-Orillia) Ltd.), the station launched on October 7,

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. CFJB can be heard as far south as Mississauga, and as far north as

Parry Sound Parry Sound is a sound or bay of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. It is highly irregularly shaped with many deep bays and islands. Killbear Provincial Park is located on the large peninsula that separates the sound from Georgian B ...

. It cannot be heard in the southeast due to adjacent station CJKX-FM broadcasting on 95.9 FM The call letters once belonged to a

Brampton Brampton ( or ) is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Brampton is a city in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is a lower-tier municipality within Peel Region. The city has a population of 656,480 as of the 2021 Census, making it ...

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 ...

, in the 1950s. On May 7, 2012, CFJB's owners (

) were granted permission to launch a sister station in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

on 88.1 MHz, CIND-FM.

References

External links

Rock 95 website
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