CFOX-FM
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| City | Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Broadcast area | Metro Vancouver |
| Branding | The World Famous CFOX |
| Frequency | 99.3 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | October 15, 1964 |
| Format | Alternative rock |
| ERP | 51 kWs average 100 kWs peak |
| HAAT | 368.4 meters (1,209 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Transmitter coordinates | 49°21′27″N 122°57′14″W / 49.357365°N 122.953776°WCoordinates: 49°21′27″N 122°57′14″W / 49.357365°N 122.953776°W |
| Callsign meaning | C FOX |
| Former callsigns | CKLG-FM (1964-1979) |
| Owner |
Corus Entertainment (Corus Radio Company) |
| Sister stations | Radio: CHMJ, CKNW, CFMI-FM TV: CHAN-DT, Global News: BC 1 |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www.cfox.com |
CFOX-FM (identified on air and in print as CFOX) is a Canadian radio station in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia. It broadcasts at 99.3 MHz on the FM band with an effective radiated power of 75,000 watts from a transmitter on Mount Seymour in the District of North Vancouver. Studios are located in Downtown Vancouver, in the TD Tower. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CFOX has an alternative rock format, as it reports to Mediabase as a Canadian alternative rock station.
CFOX began broadcasting on October 15, 1964 on 99.3 MHz with 100,000 watts, under the call sign CKLG-FM (not to be confused with the new CKLG-FM in Vancouver on 96.9 MHz, a Jack FM station). Transmissions originally came from the south slope of Fromme Mountain in North Vancouver.
CKLG-FM initially began with an easy listening format, but in the fall of 1967, it started experimenting with rock music at night. In October that year, CKLG-FM program director Frank Callaghan hired record store owner Bill Reiter (who later went on to become part of the Dr. Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicine Show comedy troupe) to host the jazz/blues program Groovin' Blue on Saturday evenings. CKLG-FM soon shifted to become Canada's first full-time FM rock music station on March 16, 1968, with the expansion of Groovin' Blue to six nights a week and the addition of tracks from rock, folk and popular albums. In 1970, CKLG-FM added a two-hour daily talk show hosted by Allen Garr, which ran on the station until 1975. By 1973, CKLG-FM had compiled a library of 3000 albums, and all its programming was aired live except on Sunday mornings, with special programming on the station including the Allen Garr talk show, live concerts and a Saturday sock-hop program. In 1976, under the guidance of new program director Roy Hennessy (a former morning host on CKLG-AM), the FM station made the gradual transition to a progressive rock format.
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