CFCA-FM
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| City | Kitchener, Ontario |
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| Broadcast area | Waterloo Region |
| Branding | 105.3 Virgin Radio |
| Slogan | Kitchener's #1 Hit Music Station |
| Frequency | 105.3 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | 1949 |
| Format | Top 40/CHR |
| ERP | 100 kWs |
| HAAT | 250 meters (820 ft) |
| Class | C1 |
| Owner |
Bell Media (Bell Media Radio) |
| Sister stations | CKKW-FM, CKCO-DT |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | kitchener.virginradio.ca |
CFCA-FM is a Canadian radio station that's being licensed to Kitchener, Ontario and serving the Waterloo Region area broadcasting at 105.3 FM. The station currently plays a Top 40/CHR format branded as 105.3 Virgin Radio and is owned by Bell Media.
CFCA's studios & offices are located in Waterloo, and their transmitter is located between Snyders Road East and Highway 7 in Baden, just west of the Kitchener city limits.
Based on the current format, CFCA-FM competes with CKBT-FM.
CFCA was first launched on 106.1 FM in 1949 by local broadcaster Carl A. Pollock. It was the first FM radio station in Canada to operate independently, without an AM radio sister station. Due to the limited audience reach of FM radio at the time, however, the station left the air in 1951. Pollock subsequently launched television station CKCO-TV in 1954 and AM radio station CKKW in 1959, and then relaunched CFCA in 1967 as an easy listening station. Pollock's broadcast holdings became part of Electrohome in 1970.
CFCA and CKKW were tentatively sold in 1992 to a local consortium consisting of Jack Schoone, a former local radio announcer, and Irving Zucker, a former owner of competing stations CKGL and CHYM-FM, but the deal fell through and the stations were instead acquired by CHUM Radio in 1993. By then the station had migrated from its beautiful music/easy listening sound to a brighter Adult Contemporary format. On August 12, 1994 at Noon, CFCA flipped to Classic rock as "105.3 Kool FM."
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