CFGX-FM
CFGX-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 99.9 FM broadcasting, FM in Sarnia, Ontario. The station broadcasts an adult top 40 format with the brand name ''The Fox'' and slogan ''Today's Best Music''. CFGX-FM can be heard in the eastern parts of Michigan as far west as Lapeer, Michigan, Lapeer and well into the Thumb region, and used to have a listenable signal in much of Macomb County before Detroit's WMUZ (AM), WCHB (now WMUZ) signed on an FM translator at 99.9 (which now relays WDMK-HD2). The station can be heard as far east as Strathroy (farther east, co-channel CHJX-FM in London interferes) and Chatham to the south. History The station was launched with the callsign CJFI on September 14, 1981 by Rogers Communications, the owner of the city's existing CHKS-FM, CKJD. CJFI featured easy listening music with some simulcasting of Top 40-formatted CKJD overnights. The station adopted its current call sign and format on February 26, 1988. CKJD and CJFI were sold to M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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CHKS-FM
CHKS-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 106.3 FM broadcasting, FM in Sarnia, Ontario. The station broadcasts a classic hits format with the brand name ''Cool 106.3''. In addition to Sarnia, it also serves Port Huron, Michigan. CHKS-FM broadcasts in HD Radio, HD. Range CHKS-FM can be heard in parts of Eastern Michigan, as far west as Flint, Michigan. The station conflicts with WGER of Saginaw, Michigan, Saginaw, in Genesee County, Michigan, Genesee and Lapeer County, Michigan, Lapeer Counties, though those with directional antennas can tune either station in these areas. The 106.3 FM signal has been heard as far south as Monroe, Michigan, Monroe; however, reception can be difficult due to FM translator W292DK in Oak Park, Michigan, Oak Park which is also on 106.3 FM. This situation tends to cause interference in southern St. Clair County, Michigan, St. Clair County, as well as in Macomb County. In Ontario, interference seems minimal. History Dancy Broadcasting la ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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WBTI
WBTI is a Hot AC radio station licensed to Lexington, Michigan at 96.9 MHz on the FM dial, with an effective radiated power of 3,000 watts. WBTI covers Sanilac County, Michigan and Lambton County, Ontario as well as portions of Lapeer and St. Clair counties. The station is owned by Radio First and broadcasts from studios on Huron Avenue in Downtown Port Huron. WBTI's transmitter is located south of Lexington off Gardener Line Road in Sanilac County. WBTI provides a rimshot signal to most of Port Huron, Marysville, and Sarnia, Ontario. Programming WBTI broadcasts with a 2000's based, gold pop format, with select 90's and early 2010's as well and is positioned as "Port Huron's Hit Music". The format places WBTI between Canadian Top 40 station CFGX-FM and Port Huron mainstream AC station WGRT. WBTI for the past several years has flipped to a Christmas music format during the holidays. History WBTI went on the air in July 1991, owned by Timothy D. Martz of Mart ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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CHOK
CHOK (1070 kHz, "CHOK 103.9 FM & 1070 AM") is a Canadian commercial radio station, licensed to Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, and owned by Blackburn Radio. The station broadcasts a country music format with local all-news radio, talk radio and sports radio. CHOK also has an FM translator, CHOK-1-FM, broadcasting at 103.9 MHz. The station is the radio home of the Toronto Blue Jays, as well as the Sarnia Sting. During Blue Jays games, CHOK's regular country music programming airs exclusively on the CHOK website. History The station was launched on July 26, 1946, by Sarnia Broadcasting. In 1947, Sarnia Broadcasting Co. was granted a licence to operate an FM station at 97.5 MHz (as CHOK-FM), which left the air sometime between 1948 and 1953, after being damaged from the Sarnia tornado. That station was never rebuilt. It was acquired by IWC Communications, a corporate precursor of Standard Broadcasting, in 1970, and went through a variety of sales to local owners until be ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blackburn Radio
Blackburn Radio, Inc. is a Canadian radio broadcasting group, which owns several radio stations in Southwestern Ontario. Headquartered in London, Ontario, the company is owned by 2061302 Ontario Limited, which is majority owned by Cogent Investments. The three Chatham stations were previously owned by Webster and Bea-Ver Communications, which was acquired by Blackburn Radio in April 2005. In 2006, during CRTC hearings reviewing commercial radio policy in Canada, Blackburn requested that all of its radio stations on or near the U.S. border be permitted to reduce their Canadian content requirement to 20 per cent. CHUM Limited's radio stations in Windsor have been granted this special exemption, due to competition from the Metro Detroit media market, and Blackburn has stated that all of its stations in the region face similar competitive challenges. Stations * Chatham-Kent - CFCO, CKSY-FM, CKUE-FM * Leamington - CHYR-FM, CJSP-FM * London - CKLO-FM * Sarnia - CHOK, CFGX-FM ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maclean-Hunter
Maclean-Hunter (M-H) was a Canadian communications company, which had diversified holdings in radio, television, magazines, newspapers and cable television distribution. History The company began in 1887, when brothers John Bayne Maclean and Hugh Cameron Maclean launched their first trade publication, ''Canadian Grocer & General Storekeeper''. Hugh left the company in 1899 and later return to Toronto to establish his own publication firm. John subsequently expanded his company into other areas of publishing, launching the general interest magazine ''Maclean's'' in 1905, the business newspaper ''Financial Post'' in 1907, the lifestyle magazine '' Canadian Homes and Gardens'' in 1925, the women's magazine '' Chatelaine'' in 1928, and its French-language counterpart, ''Châtelaine'' in 1960. Horace Talmadge Hunter joined Maclean Publishing in 1903, moving up the management ranks from general manager in 1911 to succeed John Bayne Maclean as president in 1933; in 1945 the company's ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sarnia
Sarnia is a city in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. It had a Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population of 72,047, and is the largest city on Lake Huron. Sarnia is located on the eastern bank of the junction between the Upper and Lower Great Lakes, where Lake Huron flows into the St. Clair River in the Southwestern Ontario region, which forms the Canada–United States border, directly across from Port Huron, Michigan. The site's natural harbour first attracted the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, La Salle. He named the site "The Rapids" on 23 August 1679, when he had horses and men pull his 45-ton barque ''Le Griffon'' north against the nearly four-knot current of the St. Clair River. This was the first time that a vessel other than a canoe or other oar-powered vessel had sailed into Lake Huron, and La Salle's voyage was germinal in the development of commercial shipping on the Great Lakes. Located in the natural harbour, the Sarnia port remains an importan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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CHJX-FM
CHJX-FM is a Canadian Radio broadcasting, radio station, broadcasting 24 hours a day on 99.9 FM broadcasting, FM in London, Ontario. The station airs a Contemporary Christian music format branded as Faith 99.9 (ninety-nine nine). CHJX-FM broadcasts several evangelistic teaching programs, Christian music in the morning and mid-day, with Contemporary Christian music, Christian contemporary music during the evening and overnight. Formerly branded as Grace FM, Inspire FM, and later Faith FM CHJX is part of Sound of Faith Broadcasting, Sound of Faith Broadcasting Inc., with sister stations in Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener and Woodstock, Ontario, Woodstock. Faith 99.9 is listener-supported and depends upon local advertising and listener donations to fund its operations. History Sound of Faith Broadcasting received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CRTC approval to broadcast on the FM dial at 105.9 Hertz, MHz on December 9, 2002 with an effective radiated pow ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, abstains from profanity or complex lyricism, and is most commonly used as background music in heavily-frequented family areas such as supermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, or restaurants. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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WGRT
WGRT (102.3 FM) is an adult contemporary radio station in Port Huron, Michigan. It is owned by Port Huron Family Radio and broadcasts with a power of 3,000 watts. WGRT signed on in October 1991. The station airs a satellite-delivered AC format ("Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites") from Citadel Media. The station can be heard as far as Lapeer County and in parts of northern Macomb and southern Sanilac counties. The station is also heard as far east as Strathroy, Ontario; however, reception in the Canadian portion of WGRT's listening area, as well as areas closer to Detroit and Windsor, may be compromised, following the approval by the CRTC to upgrade the broadcast power of CHST-FM in London, Ontario ( east of Port Huron), increasing its maximum ERP from 12,100 to 100,000 watts; and the sign-on of CINA-FM in Windsor in 2012. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1981 In Radio
The year 1981 in radio involved some significant events. Debuts *March – KWNT (1580 AM) of Davenport, Iowa, switches from its longtime country music format – which it had held since the 1950s, including under its previous call sign KFMA – to a golden oldies format, emphasizing music of the 1930s through early 1950s. It is the first in a series of format switches at the frequency over the next 19 years – formats ranged from oldies to soul to black gospel – all of them unsuccessful. *March 1 - DJ Larry Monroe signs on at Austin's NPR station KUT and stays for 29 years. *March 30 – Radio stations across America interrupt regular programming following an assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. *April 12 – WJOI/Pittsburgh flipped from beautiful music to Top 40, branded as "B94", and adopted the new call letters "WBZZ." That fall, WWJ-FM, a beautiful music station in Detroit, picks up the WJOI calls. *Ju ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ryan Seacrest
Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American television presenter and producer. Seacrest is the host of '' Wheel of Fortune'', having hosted since replacing long-time host Pat Sajak in September 2024. Seacrest co-hosted and served as executive producer of '' Live with Kelly and Ryan'', and has hosted other media including ''American Idol'', ''American Top 40'', and ''On Air with Ryan Seacrest''. He became co-host of '' Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'' in 2005, and became the sole host following Clark's death in 2012. Seacrest received Emmy Award nominations for ''American Idol'' each year from 2004 to 2013, and once more in 2016. He won an Emmy for '' Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution'' in 2010, and was nominated once more in 2012. In 2018, he received nominations for ''Live with Kelly and Ryan'' for Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment and Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host. Early life Ryan John Seacrest was born in Atlanta on December 24, 1974, the s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Top 40
''American Top 40'' (abbreviated to ''AT40'') is an internationally radio syndication, syndicated, independent song countdown radio programming, radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds, and Ron Jacobs (broadcaster), Ron Jacobs. The program is currently hosted by Ryan Seacrest and presented as an adjunct to his weekday radio program, ''On Air with Ryan Seacrest''. Originally a production of Watermark Inc. (later a division of ABC Radio known as ABC Watermark, now Cumulus Media Networks which merged with Westwood One), ''American Top 40'' is now distributed by Premiere Networks (a division of iHeartMedia). Nearly 500 radio stations in the United States, the Armed Forces Network, and multiple other stations worldwide air ''American Top 40'', and the show streams through several venues, including iHeartMedia's own iHeartRadio app. Co-creator Kasem hosted the original ''American Top 40'' from its inauguration on July 4, 1970, until August 6, 1988. Shadoe Stevens ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |