CFLY-FM is a Canadian

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broadcasting at 98.3 FM in Kingston,

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. The station currently broadcasts an

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format branded as ''

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98.3''. The station broadcasts with 95,500

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s of power from its

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located in Harrowsmith. The station is owned by

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History

The station was launched in January 1954 as CKLC-FM, by St. Lawrence Broadcasting. AM sister station CKLC-AM was launched at the same time. The station's original frequency was 99.5, and it was an affiliate of the

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's Dominion Network until the network dissolved in 1962. CKLC-FM's original purpose back in 1953 was to provide a reliable audio link for CKLC-AM, which broadcast from a four-tower array on Wolfe Island. Equalized Bell Telephone broadcast lines were not reliable out to Wolfe Island back in 1953, and the FM signal carried the program feed of CKLC-AM, which was received at the AM transmitter site over the air, and re-broadcast on the 1380 AM signal. Eventually, the Bell line problem was resolved, and the programming on CKLC-FM gradually became its own. CKLC-FM moved to 98.3 in 1973, and adopted its current callsign in 1978. The stations were acquired by

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in 1998. Since the 1980s, CFLY has programmed some form of

. In 1998, the station moved to a

hot adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet ...

format, and in 2001, moved back to a AC format. In early 2007, the station moved back to a

hot AC Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet sto ...

format. On June 22, 2007, the stations were handed over to CTVglobemedia, now

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

98.3''. 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
/ref> In 2022, CFLY flipped back to AC.

References

External links

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