CFJR-FM is a Canadian

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broadcasting at 104.9 FM in

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. The station owned by

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, airs an

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branded as ''

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104.9''.

History

The station was launched in 1926 as CFLC at 1010 kHz in Prescott. The station was operated by The Radio Association of Prescott (W.H. Plumb, A.G. Halliday, A.C. Casselman, P.J. McAndrews, L.F. Knight, H.M. Perkins, W.A. Cornell, J.E. White and D.S. Carlisle). The call letters stand for: "Canada's Finest Little Community". In the 1940s, Jack Whitby's Eastern Ontario Broadcasting Co. Ltd. purchased CFLC and moved the studios to the Fulford Building on Courthouse Avenue, near King Street in Brockville. In addition to being owner, Jack Whitby was also manager. In 1943, the callsign changed to CFBR ("BR" stood for BRockville). In 1946, it changed to CFJM ("JM" for Jack Murray) until it changed to its current callsign to CFJR ("JR" for Jack Radford) in 1950 where it has remained since. The station also had gone through different ownerships over the years. The station changed frequencies to 930 in the early 1930s, until March 29, 1941, when it moved to 1450 kHz and moved one last time on the AM band to 830 kHz on September 19, 1985, before it moved to its current frequency on July 14, 2003. In 1959, CFJR's news department hired a 21-year-old college dropout,

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, then a new television station in

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celebrating 50 years at CFJR on April 7, 2021. Today, it is also the only AC station owned by Bell Media that originated on the AM dial. It is also Bell Media's only AC station not broadcasting at 100,000 watts like its sister AC stations, CHQM-FM in

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CJMJ-FM CJMJ-FM (100.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The station uses its on-air brand name ''Move 100.3'', and airs an adult contemporary format. CJMJ is owned by Bell Media, along with three other Ottawa radio statio ...

. On December 27, 2020, as part of a mass format reorganization by Bell Media, CFJR rebranded as ''

104.9''. 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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