CKDK-FM is a Canadian

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owned by

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, and is licensed to the city of

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. It serves the

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market, with

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power of 51,000

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s on the assigned frequency of 103.9

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, covering most of Southwestern Ontario. The station airs a

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format branded as ''Country 104''. The studio is located on Dundas Street in Woodstock but it has an office in downtown London and its transmitter is located near Karn Road in Woodstock.

History

CKDK began broadcasting on 1340 AM on December 6, 1947 as CKOX. In 1947, C.O. Tatham and Charles Perry applied for an FM licence at Woodstock as CKOX-FM. They later withdrew their application. The station reapplied a year later to operate at 106.9

, but it is unknown if the station was ever built. The call letters changed to CKDK in 1977, and moved to 102.3 in 1986, becoming ''K102''. It moved to the current frequency in 1993, known at the time as ''K104'' with an

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format. The station joined the "Energy Radio" network in 1998, simulcast from

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. On January 12, 2000, CKDK and sister station

CFHK-FM CFHK-FM is a Canadian radio station licensed to St. Thomas, Ontario, serving London and Southwestern Ontario. The station transmits at an effective radiated power of 22,000 watts (60,000 watts peak) at 103.1 MHz. Owned by Corus Entertainment, t ...

in St. Thomas, swapped formats, but not call letters. The Hawk format on CFHK was originally an

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format, like CFPL-FM, but this was changed to a

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format on December 21, 1997. On July 22, 2011, the station dropped its

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format for an adult hits format under the ''More 103.9'' branding, similar in format to Corus'

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station

CKNG-FM CKNG-FM is a radio station broadcasting at 92.5 FM in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The station plays an adult hits format branded on-air as ''Chuck @ 92.5''. CKNG's studios are located on 84th Street in southeastern Edmonton, while its transmitte ...

. On September 25, 2012, Shaw received

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approval to change the authorized contours of the english-language

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programming undertaking CKDK Woodstock by relocating its transmitter site, by decreasing the average

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from 52,000 to 51,000

s and by increasing its effective height of antenna above average terrain from 133 to 138.4 metres.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-515
CKDK-FM Woodstock – Technical change, ''CRTC'', September 25, 2012. On February 28, 2014, at 5 PM, the adult hits format was dropped for a

format, branded as ''Country 104''.

References

External links

Country 104

1039FM Live Audio

Rock The Park Site
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1947 establishments in Ontario