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CKIS-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 92.5
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. Owned by
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, the station broadcasts a Top 40/CHR format branded as ''KiSS 92.5''. The station was founded on January 26, 1993 as CISS-FM under the ownership of
Rawlco Communications Rawlco Radio Ltd. is a media company based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The company is the sole proprietor of seven radio stations in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Rawlco Radio Corporate Office is just south of Downtown Sas ...
in the " New Country" format. CISS was acquired by Rogers Communications on February 26, 1999 and was rebranded first as ''Power 92'', then ''Kiss 92.5'' as a
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station, but the station was renamed to ''92.5
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'' on June 4, 2003 with the call letters CJAQ-FM under a jockless format before abandoning the concept in 2006 and played
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music. The current iteration of "Kiss" was relaunched on June 5, 2009. CKIS studios are located at the Rogers Building at Bloor and
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s in the northeastern corner of
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, while its
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is located atop
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History


The beginning and Country music (1989-1999)

On July 31, 1989, the
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(CRTC) announced a call for applications to license a new FM station on the 92.5 frequency, which was believed to be the last available FM frequency in the Toronto market. On August 8, 1990,
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was awarded a licence from the CRTC for a new FM radio station. The format chosen to air on the frequency was
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that would target an audience ranging from 25–54 years of age. Rawlco planned on changing frequencies for the station to 99.1 FM, which was formerly the home of CKO-FM-1, but cancelled the plan after the CRTC denied this. On January 26, 1993, at 1 p.m., singer
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pressed the button to launch the station, with the CISS-FM call letters and ''CISS-FM 92.5'' (pronounced "kiss") branding. The station's licensing by the
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had been controversial, because the CRTC had passed over an application by
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for an urban music station, which would have been a new format in the Toronto market, in favour of Rawlco's application. Milestone's second attempt at an urban station was also passed over in favour of
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; the company finally won a licence on its third attempt, and launched
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in 2001.


First "Kiss" era (1999-2003)

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announced a deal to buy the station in February 1999. The deal would not be completed until August, but immediately after the deal was announced, Rogers took control of the station's programming by way of a local management agreement or LMA (at the time, LMAs were not actively regulated by the CRTC). Without much warning, on February 5, 1999, at 7:30 p.m., the station flipped formats to Top 40/CHR and changed monikers to ''Power 92'', becoming the first city-grade Top 40 station to serve Toronto since the demise of CHOG in October 1995. The final song on "CISS" was " The Dance" by
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, while the first song on "Power" was "
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. The station's on-air staff was immediately let go. Some reports at the time indicated the staff had been taken out to a meal at a restaurant nearby, then returned to the station to find they were no longer allowed in. In a conversation recollecting the incident 23 years later,
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indicated that the staff had been invited to a fine dining restaurant and were expecting a meal but, after a lengthy delay, they were instead handed their layoff notices in one of the dining rooms. When the station flipped to Power, the station attracted adverse attention from the operators of CKDX, then a
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station branded as ''Power 88.5'' in Newmarket, north of Toronto, and from
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, which owned several "Power" stations in western Canada at the time, and who had taken steps towards potentially turning their Toronto rock music station
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in a new direction as ''Power 107''. On February 26, 1999, the station rebranded as ''Kiss 92 FM''. The station would later rebrand as ''Kiss 92.5''. In its early days, the station also aired imaging material in which an announcer pronounced the name of the city "Toe-ron-toe", widely considered a mispronunciation of Toronto. New material was soon substituted. Thanks to former CRTC content regulations on FM radio, CISS was the first, and remained the only
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station on FM licensed to the City of Toronto in the late 1990s and early 2000s (the closest formatted station in the market,
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, which airs a
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format, is licensed to Orangeville, and is a rimshot from the northwestern portion of the market). The station rode a wave of popularity for
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acts like
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, and often seemed to supertarget a primary market of young teenage or preteen girls. In addition, CISS was more rhythmic-leaning than most Top 40 stations due to the market not having an urban or rhythmic station until
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CFXJ-FM CFXJ-FM (93.5 FM, ''93.5 Today Radio'') is a Canadian radio station in Toronto, Ontario. Owned by Stingray Group, it broadcasts an adult hits format. CFXJ's studios are located at Yonge and St. Clair in Toronto's Deer Park neighbourhood, whil ...
signed on the air with an
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format. Station personalities included Jay Michaels, first paired with
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as "Mad Dog and Daryn" and then with Billie Holiday in mornings as Mad Dog and Billie (frequently accompanied by voice actress
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as "Suga BayBee"), Kris James (a re-hired veteran of the country format, and temporarily the CHR format's first morning host) middays, Tarzan Dan afternoons,
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and Taylor Kaye evenings, and Slim hosting "Slim Jams", a slow jam/R&B program in overnights. By
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, somewhat ironically, the station moved to take CFXJ's turf with a complete shift to a
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format billed as "Toronto's Hip Hop and R&B." The station hired local urban flavoured talent DJX and Haddy, Axel, Kwame, DJ Baby Yu and RG.


Jack FM (2003-2009)

On June 4, 2003, at 4:07 p.m., the station flipped to the "
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" branding and the adult hits format, which had proved quite successful on Rogers-owned stations in
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and
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. The station would adopt the CJAQ-FM call letters in February 2004 (with CISS being moved to a Rogers-owned station in
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). The station experienced a ratings drop after the flip, most likely because of the popularity of the previous format. However, once the station established itself, the station gained a boost in the ratings. When it first launched, "Jack" operated without
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s in an effort to establish the "Playing What We Want" concept which was new to Toronto. Though DJs were introduced within weeks of the debut, the station would become Canada's first DJ-free station in late September 2005. At the time, station GM/program director Pat Cardinal cited the move was "a result of listener feedback. The audience has been telling us that they want no DJs on Jack. They want more music." In November 2005, Cardinal defended his decision in an interview with
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of Report on Business Television and stated why he doesn't see commercial-free
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s and satellite radio as a threat to a non-DJ format. Despite the move, the station's ratings would dive from a 4.1 share in 2005 to the 2.3 share range in 2006. Pat Cardinal would be replaced as GM/PD in June 2006 by Steve Kennedy, who had experience with the "Jack" format in Calgary. The previous month, the "Jack" playlist would be adjusted to
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, with the station dropping most pop songs in an effort to compete against Corus-owned stations
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and
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. The move put a dent in the music variety that is a hallmark of the "Jack" format and its "playing what we want" slogan (which CJAQ still used at the time and would not replace until March 2008, when it adopted the slogan "Toronto's Best Rock Variety"). The move to rock would further hamper CJAQ's overall share in the Toronto radio market (down 17%), even in the male target demographic (down 14%). On December 11, 2006, CJAQ abandoned its DJ-free format when they launched a new morning show featuring Ben McVie and Kerry Gray, the former morning team at
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in Kitchener. DJs would surface on other dayparts on December 12, 2006, including Jeff Chalmers and Samantha Stevens. Ben and Kerry were eventually fired on August 16, 2007 and replaced by Jeff Chalmers and Larissa Primeau. Chalmers and Primeau were dismissed in September 2008 and replaced by Carly Klassen and Jeff Brown. (Brown, the former PD of
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in Ottawa, replaced Steve Kennedy as PD on July 4, 2007, when Rogers market manager Sandy Sanderson became GM.) Brown and Klassen would be holding down both the morning and afternoon drive slots by May 2009, one month after "Jack FM" registered a dismal 2.0 share in the BBM ratings results for the Toronto market.


Second "KiSS" era (2009-present)

At 3 p.m. on June 5, 2009 (one day after the 6th anniversary of Jack's launch), after playing " Boy Inside the Man" by
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, the station reverted to Top 40/CHR as ''KiSS 92.5''. KiSS started with a stretch of 10,000 songs without commercial or DJ interruption, beginning with "
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" by
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. KiSS (which would eventually swap the CJAQ-FM call sign for Calgary's
CKIS-FM CKIS-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 92.5 MHz in Toronto, Ontario. Owned by Rogers Sports & Media, the station broadcasts a Top 40/CHR format branded as ''KiSS 92.5''. The station was founded on January 26, 1993 as CISS-FM und ...
) features a music playlist consisting mainly of pop, hip-hop and R&B music; the station often avoids
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, though it does include some Canadian
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artists to meet
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regulations. KiSS competes head-on with Toronto area stations
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,
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(which airs a
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format, and is based in the suburbs), as well as, to a lesser extent, Toronto
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station
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, and
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station
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in Buffalo. It was announced on July 8, 2009 that ''
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s
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will be hosting the new morning show, along with Mocha, formerly of
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in Kitchener. Both were formerly co-hosts and producers of ''Mad Dog & Billie'' during the station's first
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incarnation. Maurie Sherman (Damnit Maurie) joined the show as Senior Producer/Reporter in March 2011. Beginning in January 2010, CKIS would offer "Commercial Free Mondays", a campaign patterned after many
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stations across the
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, and offer hourly prize giveaways. (CKIS followed
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's
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as the 2nd station in Canada to offer a whole day commercial-free; KiSS competitor
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would follow suit one month later with a promotion they label as "The Zone", also on Mondays. The promotion label was dropped on May 13, 2011, to avoid confusion with the block aired on YTV.) In 2013, the station's DJ Clymaxxx and Mocha won their 2nd consecutive Stylus Award for "Radio Mixshow DJs of the Year" for Set It Off.


HD Radio

In April 2016, the CRTC granted approval for CKIS to utilize
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operations. On June 27, CKIS added simulcasts of
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and
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on their HD2 and HD3 sub-channels, respectively.http://hdradio.com/canada/find-hd-radio-canadian-station HD Radio Stations in Canada


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