CJRT-FM
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| City | Toronto, Ontario |
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| Branding | JAZZ.FM91 |
| Frequency | 91.1 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | 1949 |
| Format | jazz/public |
| ERP | 40,000 watts |
| HAAT | 420.5 meters (1,380 ft) |
| Class | C1 |
| Callsign meaning | C Journalism Radio Technology |
| Owner | CJRT-FM Inc. |
| Webcast |
Listen Live Oscar Peterson channel |
| Website | JAZZ.FM91 |
CJRT-FM is a Canadian public radio station, which broadcasts at 91.1 on the FM dial in Toronto, Ontario. CJRT currently operates as JAZZ.FM91.
CJRT's studios are located on Pardee Avenue in Toronto's Liberty Village neighbourhood, while its transmitter is located on top of the CN Tower. It is available on Bell TV as channel 960, and on cable FM and digital cable audio services throughout Ontario. In addition to streaming its on air programming, it supplies specialty music streams Oscar Peterson Channel, High Standards and Grooveyard.
The station was founded in 1949 as an experimental FM broadcaster, only the second in Canada, by the Ryerson Institute of Technology (later Ryerson University). The JRT in the station's call sign stand for "Journalism, Radio, Technology", which were three of Ryerson's educational mandates. The station's principal purpose was to train radio engineering and radio and (later television) broadcast students and initially only broadcast from 3pm to 9pm on weekdays during the school year. In 1964 the station became professionally staffed and extended its programming to 7am to midnight, seven days a week. Content became an eclectic mix of classical music, jazz, folk music and other genres, educational and public affairs broadcasts, children's programming and dramas, news, documentaries and quiz shows and comedies imported from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Ryerson owned the station until 1974 when, due to financial restraints, the post-secondary institution announced it would surrender its broadcast licence. Due to a public outcry in support of the station the Ontario government of Premier Bill Davis announced that it would fund the station through an independent corporation and ownership was transferred to CJRT-FM Inc., a non-profit corporation which received over 60% of its funding from the provincial government and the rest from donations by listeners and corporate and foundation support.
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