CFJB-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 95.7 FM in

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. The station broadcasts an

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format branded as "Rock 95". Owned by

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(Rock 95 Broadcasting (Barrie-Orillia) Ltd.), the station launched on October 7,

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. CFJB can be heard as far south as

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, and as far north as

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. It cannot be heard in the southeast due to adjacent station CJKX-FM broadcasting on 95.9 FM. The call letters once belonged to a

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, in the 1950s. On May 7, 2012, CFJB's owners (

) were granted permission to launch a sister station in

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on 88.1 MHz, CIND-FM.

References

External links

Rock 95 websiteCFJB-FM
at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the

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