CKGB-FM
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| City | Timmins, Ontario |
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| Branding | KiSS 99.3 |
| Slogan | Today's Best Music |
| Frequency | 99.3 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | 1933 (AM) 2001 (FM) |
| Format | hot adult contemporary |
| ERP | 40 kW |
| HAAT | 162 meters (531 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Callsign meaning | C K Gold Belt |
| Owner |
Rogers Media, a division of Rogers Communications (Rogers Radio) |
| Sister stations | CJQQ-FM |
| Website | www.kisstimmins.com |
CKGB-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 99.3 FM in Timmins, Ontario. The station uses the on-air brand KiSS 99.3 and is owned by Rogers Communications.
The station was launched in late 1933 by young Northern Ontario media entrepreneur Roy Thomson, who would later become the owner of The Times of London. Thomson acquired the Timmins Daily Press in 1934, and the newspaper and radio station shared a building and ownership for many years. In the 1940s and 1950s, CKGB was operating on 94.5 FM as "CKRT-FM", until it was shut down. The station broadcast on AM from its inception, periodically changing frequencies until its last AM home at 750 in 1984, and adopting a country music format in 1990. Coincidentally, Thompson hired Jack Kent Cooke to be a sales rep in the hungry 1930s. He went on to own the Los Angeles Kings hockey franchise. Also in 1984, CKGB was authorized to drop its CBC Radio affiliation as network service was now available in the area from CBC-owned CBCJ-FM.
In 2001, the station received CRTC approval to move to the FM dial, retaining its legendary call letters as CKGB-FM but taking on the EZ Rock brand and adult contemporary format, giving the small Timmins radio market its first direct competition, as the Haliburton Broadcasting Group-owned CHMT-FM had launched as adult contemporary/CHR hybrid Mix 93 just a few months before. Less than a year after EZRock's Timmins launch, CHMT flipped to fill the void in country radio as Moose FM.
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