CKJS-FM
{{short description|Multilingual radio station in Winnipeg}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = CKJS-FM
| logo =
| logo_size = 200px
| area = Winnipeg Metropolitan Region
| branding = CKJS FM 92.7
| airdate = AM: {{Start date and age|March 25, 1975}}
FM: {{Start date and age|2021|9|21}}
| frequency = 92.7 MHz {{HD Radio}}
| format = Multilingual
| haat = {{convert|154|m|ft}}
| erp = 19,682 watts (35,000 watts maximum)
| class = B
| owner = Evanov Communications
| former_frequencies = 810 kHz (AM) (1974–2022)
| sister_stations = CFJL-FM, CHWE-FM
| webcast = [http://streamdb5web.securenetsystems.net/v5/CKJS Listen Live]
| website = [http://www.ckjs.com ckjs.com]
}}
CKJS (92.7 MHz) is a Canadian FM radio station in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It shares studios and offices with its sister stations CFJL-FM and CHWE-FM in Polo Park. It is the only multilingual radio station in Manitoba. It broadcasts in more than 20 languages: Bulgarian, Chinese, Filipino, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. It also broadcasts blocks of Christian radio programming on weekdays and Sundays.{{Cite news|url=http://ckjs.com/on-air-schedule/|title=On-Air Schedule – CKJS 810 AM|work=CKJS 810 AM|access-date=2018-04-21|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422202019/http://ckjs.com/on-air-schedule/|url-status=dead}}
CKJS has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 19,682 watts (35,000 watts maximum). The transmitter is in Duff Roblin Provincial Park just south of Winnipeg.
History
=810 AM=
The plan for a multilingual AM radio station in Winnipeg was started in 1974 by Casimir Stanczykowski. CKJS 810 AM first signed on the air on March 25, 1975. It was Stanczykowski's second radio station, behind Montreal's multicultural station CFMB.{{cite news|last1=Faguy|first1=Steve|title=Multilingual radio station CFMB agrees to sale to Evanov Radio|url=https://montrealgazette.com/business/local-business/cfmb-sold-to-evanov-radio|accessdate=November 20, 2014|work=Montreal Gazette|date=November 18, 2014}}
In the 1980's it also boasted, for a very short time, a cutting edge alternative music program called Nightbeat. This program was responsible for promoting local talent and giving airplay to music that wasn't being played on mainstream radio. It was unusual for Modern Rock and other alternative music to be heard on commercial radio in this era.
In 2006, the station was sold to Newcap Broadcasting. In May 2011, Newcap announced the sale of both CKJS and CHNK-FM to Evanov Communications, pending CRTC approval.{{Cite web |url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/19/c6076.html |title=Newfoundland Capital press release, via Canadian Newswire: "NEWCAP to Sell Winnipeg Radio Stations", May 19, 2010. |access-date=May 20, 2011 |archive-date=May 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528091745/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/19/c6076.html |url-status=dead }} The deal was approved on October 24, 2011.[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-661.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-661] In November 2014, Evanov announced that it would acquire CFMB, which re-united both of Stanczykowski's stations under common ownership.
=Move to 92.7 FM=
In November 2017, Evanov received CRTC approval to convert CKJS to an FM station on 92.7 FM.{{Cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2017/2017-423.htm|title=CKJS Winnipeg – Conversion to the FM band|website=CRTC|date=30 November 2017 |language=en|access-date=2017-12-03}}
On September 21, 2021, CKJS began simulcasting on its new FM frequency, and in HD Radio—the first station in Manitoba to do so.{{cite web |title=We've thrown the switch, and you can now hear us on 92.7 FM! |url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=874435313196444&id=110740072899309 |access-date=25 September 2021 |website=www.facebook.com |publisher=GMP CKJS |language=en}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=May 2022}} CJKS's AM signal continued operations until February 21, 2022, after which it was shut down—completing its transition to FM.[https://www.facebook.com/191081700931187/posts/5043900035649305/ CKJS AM 810 in Winnipeg Shuts Down], Canadian Radio News - Facebook, February 21, 2022
92.7 is a first adjacent frequency of 92.9 that was formerly used by CKIC-FM which left the air in 2012. Gill Broadcasting applied to use CKIC's former 92.9 frequency in Winnipeg for a new ethnic/multilingual radio station that was denied by the CRTC in 2015 [https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2015/2015-15.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2015-15],
Ethnic commercial FM radio station in Winnipeg, CRTC, January 22, 2015
but was later used by CKYZ-FM a low-power 50 watt tourist information station owned by Gill Broadcasting without a CRTC license until it moved to 96.9 MHz in 2018 [https://broadcasting-history.com/listing_and_histories/radio/ckyz-fm History of CKYZ-FM - Canadian Communications Foundation] after Evanov received approval from the CRTC to convert CKJS to the FM band at 92.7 MHz in 2017.
References
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External links
- [http://www.ckjs.com CKJS FM 92.7]
- [https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/manitoba/ckjs-am/ CKJS-FM] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
- {{RecnetCanada|CKJS-FM}}
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