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Wingham, ON
N0G2W0
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| Monday | 8:30am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 8:30am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 8:30am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 8:30am - 5pm |
| Friday | 8:30am - 5pm |
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A history lesson
The radio station was originally launched in 1926 as an informal broadcasting experiment by local businessman W. T. Cruickshank, who aired live and unscripted programming provided by customers of his repair shop. In its original incarnation, the station was simply known as Joke, but proved so popular that Cruickshank applied for an amateur broadcasting license and the station formally became 10BP by 1930. In 1935, the station was officially licensed as commercial radio station CKNX, on 1200 AM. CKNX-AM briefly moved to the 1230 frequency in 1941, and to its current 920 frequency a few months later. In the late 1940s and 1950s, the station's Saturday Night Barn Dance was one of the most popular and influential radio programs in Ontario. The studios were located on main (Josephine) street, next to the Brunswick Hotel. The transmitter site is located 4 miles south of Wingham and broadcasts with a transmitter power of 10,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts nighttime.
In 1955, CKNX-TV was launched. On March 8, 1962, the building which accommodated the CKNX radio and television stations caught fire. Although nothing could be salvaged, CKNX was back on the air within a few hours, broadcasting from temporary facilities at the transmitter site and using the nearby high school gym as a TV studio. CKNX operations continued as such (with various temporary offices set up in Wingham) until they purchased new equipment and moved into a new building in 1963, known as Canada’s most modern broadcasting centre. The ‘new’ building is still in use today and is the home of CKNX-AM, CKNX-FM and CIBU-FM.
CKNX-FM was launched in 1977 by Blackburn Radio, the owner of the town's existing CKNX-AM and former owner of CKNX-TV, which is now owned by Bell Media. On August 29, 1989, the CRTC approved CKNX Broadcasting Limited application to establish a low-power rebroadcast FM transmitter in Centreville, on 104.9 MHz to serve Centreville and Meaford with 5 watts. The call sign for the FM repeater would become CKNX-FM-2. In 2016, Blackburn submitted an application to the CRTC to delete CKNX-FM's repeater CKNX-FM-2 104.9 Centreville. CKNX-FM-2 was officially turned off on January 18, 2017.
CIBU-FM was launched in 2005 by Blackburn Radio with the branding 94.5 The Bull. The station's transmitter is located near Formosa, Ontario and shares the transmitter building and antenna with CKNX-FM. In 2006, the CRTC approved the application for a repeater transmitter located near Brucefield that was needed to improve coverage in the southwest part of the main coverage area. The format has mellowed somewhat and is now known as Classic Rock 945.
