CJXK-FM is a Canadian

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, broadcasting at 95.3 FM in

Cold Lake, Alberta Cold Lake is a city in northeastern Alberta, Canada and is named after the lake nearby. Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake (CFB Cold Lake) is situated within the city's outer limits. History Cold Lake was first recorded on a 1790 map, by the nam ...

owned by Stingray Group. The station broadcasts a

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format branded as ''

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95.3''. The station originally began broadcasting on December 1, 1979 on the frequency 1340

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, until it received approval by the

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in 2003 to move to the FM dial, which officially happened on September 3, 2004.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2003-617
CJCM Grand Centre (Cold Lake) - Conversion to FM band, ''CRTC'', December 19, 2003 At the same time as the move to FM, the station flipped to

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as ''95.3 K-Rock''. On July 7, 2017, CJXK changed its format to

as ''

95.3''.

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Boom 95.3
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