CKMO was a

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broadcasting on AM

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, Canada. Branded as Village 900, it was the

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station of the city's

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History

CAMO Radio was originally launched in 1973 as a

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station on the Camosun College Lansdowne campus for the purpose of providing students in the Applied Communication Program (ACP) with practical on-air and station management experience. ACP and CAMO were founded by Kermit Carlson. In 1991, the student run CAMO Radio Society incorporated as a

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and began to prepare an application for a

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licence. That licence was granted by the

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in 1993. The station began broadcasting that year on FM 103.1 as CKMO-FM, adopting the CKMO call sign (as CA is not among the ITU prefixes assigned to Canada). In 1995, the station began its "Education on the Air" program, broadcasting college courses. In 1996, Education on the Air won an award for excellence in community radio broadcasting from the

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. In 2000, CKMO and

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' CJVI applied to the CRTC to swap frequencies. The application was approved, and on September 4, CKMO began broadcasting on 900 AM with a power of 10,000

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s, while CJVI took over the 103.1 FM frequency. Also that year, CKMO moved to a full-time roots music format. In 2010, the station won a second

outstanding achievement award in the Aboriginal Affairs and Cultural Programming category for the program ''Healing Hands''. The station announced in February 2011 that it would cease broadcasting on 900 AM and will be available only through

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. CKMO's transmitter shut down at March 4, 2012 at midnight, when its agreement with Rogers Media ended. On March 4, 2012, CKMO ceased terrestrial broadcasting; its licence was surrendered.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-132
- Revocation of licence, ''CRTC'', March 5, 2012

Other stations using CKMO call

From 1928 to 1955, the call letters CKMO were used at a pioneer radio station in

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, which was licensed to the Sprott-Shaw School of Commerce. On February 1, 1992,

CKOC CKOC (1150 AM) is a radio station in Hamilton, Ontario. Owned by Bell Media, it broadcasts a business news format. CKOC is a 50,000-watt, Class B station operating on a Regional (not clear-channel) broadcast frequency, with transmitters locate ...

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dropped its historical call letters and adopted CKMO. However, after a few months the Hamilton station changed owners, and the CKOC call sign was restored. In 1993, CKMO became available for assignment to Camosun College, until 2012. In 2014, the CKMO call sign now belongs to a radio station in

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CKMO-FM CKMO-FM (101.5 FM, ''FM 101 Orangeville'') is a radio station licensed to Orangeville, Ontario. Owned by Local Radio Lab, it broadcasts an adult contemporary format. Its studios are located on Mill Street in downtown Orangeville. CKMO-FM is th ...

References

External links

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