CHMJ (AM)
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| City | Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Broadcast area | Metro Vancouver |
| Branding | AM730 |
| Slogan | Vancouver's 24-Hour Traffic and Information Station |
| Frequency | 730 kHz (AM) 101.1 MHz HD3 |
| First air date | February 3, 1955 |
| Format | Highway advisory radio |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Transmitter coordinates | 49°08′01″N 123°00′17″W / 49.1335°N 123.004587°WCoordinates: 49°08′01″N 123°00′17″W / 49.1335°N 123.004587°W |
| Callsign meaning | C H MoJo (former station name) |
| Former callsigns | CKLG (1955-2001) CJNW (2001-2002) |
| Former frequencies | 1070 kHz (1955-1961) |
| Owner |
Corus Entertainment (Corus Premium Television Ltd.) |
| Sister stations |
Radio: CKNW, CFOX-FM, CFMI-FM TV: CHAN-DT, Global News: BC 1 |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www.am730.ca |
CHMJ (identified on air as AM 730) is a Canadian radio station in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia currently owned by Corus Entertainment. It broadcasts on 730 kHz, with a power of 50,000 watts from a transmitter in Delta. Studios are located in the TD Tower in Downtown Vancouver. CKAC in Montreal, Quebec is the dominant Class A Canadian station on 730 AM.
In November 2006, CHMJ adopted an all-day, every day "all traffic" format, becoming the first station in North America to do so. The station dropped rebroadcasts of Corus Network talk shows, and terminated its programming of university sports and Seattle Seahawks coverage. AM730 in full, brings traffic, CKNW's news and Global SkyTracker's weather.
On February 3, 1955, Vancouver AM radio station CKLG, owned by Lions Gate Broadcasting Ltd., began transmitting at 1070 kHz on the AM band with a 1,000 watt transmitter. Originally, studios and transmitter were both located in North Vancouver. The radio station was controlled by the Gordon Gibson family, better known in logging circles (Gordon Gibson, Sr, "The Bull of the Woods.") In 1958, the station changed frequencies from 1070 kHz to 730 kHz and increased power to 10,000 watts. The transmitter site was moved at this time from North Vancouver to Delta. The station was sold to Moffat Broadcasting Ltd. in 1961, and in 1964 launched an FM sister station, the original CKLG-FM (now CFOX-FM), at 99.3 MHz. Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, CKLG (also known as "LG73") played a variety of contemporary music, at times ranking as one of the most popular radio stations in the Vancouver market. In 1975, the station once again increased its transmitted power, raising it to the current 50,000 watts.
The station's popularity declined in the 1980s and 1990s, as many music stations moved from AM to FM broadcasting, and in 1992, the Corus Radio Company (now Corus Entertainment) purchased Moffat's Vancouver radio properties. After a brief and unsuccessful attempt at a talk radio format in the fall and early winter of 1993-94, the station returned to a hit music format, which would last for the next seven years.
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