CFLY-FM is a Canadian
radio station
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broadcasting at 98.3
FM in
Kingston,
Ontario
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. The station currently broadcasts an
adult contemporary
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format
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branded as ''
Move
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98.3''. The station broadcasts with 95,500
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s of power from its
transmitter
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located in
Harrowsmith
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. The station is owned by
Bell Media
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Establishment (2011–13)
On December 9, 2011, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced the sale of its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports ...
.
History
The station was launched in January 1954 as CKLC-FM, by St. Lawrence Broadcasting.
AM sister station
CKLC-AM was launched at the same time. The station's original frequency was 99.5, and it was an affiliate of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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's
Dominion Network
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It consisted of the CBC-owned CJBC radio station in Toronto and a series of 34 privately owned affiliates ...
until the network dissolved in 1962. CKLC-FM's original purpose back in 1953 was to provide a reliable audio link for CKLC-AM, which broadcast from a four-tower array on
Wolfe Island. Equalized Bell Telephone broadcast lines were not reliable out to Wolfe Island back in 1953, and the FM signal carried the program feed of CKLC-AM, which was received at the AM transmitter site over the air, and re-broadcast on the 1380 AM signal. Eventually, the Bell line problem was resolved, and the programming on CKLC-FM gradually became its own.
CKLC-FM moved to 98.3 in 1973, and adopted its current callsign in 1978.
The stations were acquired by
CHUM Limited
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in 1998. Since the 1980s, CFLY has programmed some form of
adult contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...
. In 1998, the station moved to a
hot adult contemporary
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format, and in 2001, moved back to a
AC format. In early 2007, the station moved back to a
hot AC
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet s ...
format.
On June 22, 2007, the stations were handed over to CTVglobemedia, now
Bell Media
Bell Media Inc. ( French: ) is a Canadian company formed by the amalgamation of several companies.
Establishment (2011–13)
On December 9, 2011, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced the sale of its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports ...
.
On December 27, 2020, as part of a mass format reorganization by Bell Media, CFLY rebranded as ''
Move
Move may refer to:
People
*Daniil Move (born 1985), a Russian auto racing driver
Brands and enterprises
* Move (company), an online real estate company
* Move (electronics store), a defunct Australian electronics retailer
* Daihatsu Move
Gov ...
98.3''. While the station would run jockless for the first week of the format, on-air staff would return on January 4, 2021.
Bell Media Moves Ten Stations to New Branding
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In 2022, CFLY flipped back to AC.
References
External links
Move 98.3
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FLY
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FLY
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Radio stations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Ontario
FLY
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