CJLF-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting a Contemporary Christian music format on 100.3 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 ...

. Using the on-air brand name ''Life 100.3'', the station was founded by Scott Jackson in August 1999 and is owned by Trust Communications Ministries, Inc, which is based in Barrie, Ontario. On August 27, 2006, CJLF-FM increased its power from 1.8 kW to 18.7 kW. The power was further increased to 40 kW in January 2007.

Programming

In addition to locally oriented programming, the station has produced nationally syndicated programs like the ''CT-20'' countdown of

Christian music Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely aroun ...

hits.

Transmitters

Expansion

Trust Communications applied twice for a new station in Kitchener- Waterloo with its own schedule and studios, but these applications were rejected in favour of CJTW-FM. Trust Communications applied for a transmitter to serve the

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

residents of

Iqaluit Iqaluit ( ; , ; ) is the capital of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian territory of Nunavut, its largest community, and its only city. It was known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, after the Frobisher Bay, large bay on the c ...

, Nunavut with the first Christian station in the territory (which would rebroadcast CJLF-FM); however, this application was rejected. On September 28, 2011, the CRTC denied Trust's application to increase CJLF-FM-1's power in Owen Sound. On January 28, 2011, the CRTC revoked the licence of

CKLN-FM CKLN-FM was a community radio station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1983 to 2011, CKLN Radio Inc. was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as a campus-community FM radio station affiliated with R ...

for regulatory non-compliance. The decision was appealed to the

Federal Court of Canada The Federal Court of Canada, which succeeded the Exchequer Court of Canada in 1971, was a national court of Canada that had limited jurisdiction to hear certain types of disputes arising under the federal government's legislative jurisdiction. O ...

, which denied the appeal on April 15, 2011. The CRTC subsequently issued a call for applications to occupy the now-vacant 88.1 FM frequency on September 28, 2011. Trust Communications filed an application to launch a new Christian music radio station in Toronto. The CRTC rejected Trust Communication's application on September 11, 2012, in favour of a new station, CIND-FM, owned by Rock 95 FM.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-485
/ref>

References

External links

Life 100.3
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cjlf-Fm Jlf Jlf Radio stations established in 1999 1999 establishments in Ontario