CKBY-FM

CKBY-FM is a Canadian radio station, which airs a news/talk/sports format at 101.1 FM in Smiths Falls, serving the Ottawa market, in this case branded as CityNews Ottawa. The station is owned by Rogers Sports & Media. Previously, the station used the brand name Country 101.1.

For the radio station which began as CKBY-FM, see CISS-FM.
CKBY-FM
CitySmiths Falls, Ontario
Broadcast areaNational Capital Region
Eastern Ontario
Western Quebec
Frequency101.1 MHz (FM)
BrandingCityNews Ottawa 1310 AM / 101.1 FM
Programming
FormatNews/Talk/Sports
Ownership
OwnerRogers Sports & Media
(Rogers Media, Inc.)
CIWW, CHEZ-FM, CISS-FM, CJET-FM
History
First air date
1969 (CJET)
2004 (CKBY, moved from 105.3)
Technical information
ClassC1
ERP100 kWs
HAAT141.5 meters (464 ft)
Links
Websiteottawa.citynews.ca

CKBY's studios are located in Smiths Falls (with auxiliary studios alongside the Rogers Ottawa cluster at Thurston Drive and Conroy Road in Ottawa), with its transmitter located near Carleton Place.

History

The station was launched in 1969 as CJET-FM, a sister station to the AM radio station CJET, and changed its callsign to CKUE in the early 1970s.

In 1984, the stations were acquired by CHEZ-FM Inc., the owner of Ottawa's CHEZ-FM. In 1986, CKUE changed its callsign to CHEQ, and adopted the Q101 brand. Q101 switched from its longtime adult contemporary format to country in 1990, but the country format was financially unsuccessful.

In 1993, CHEZ acquired rights to the callsign and format of CFMO, an easy listening station in Ottawa which CHUM Limited had converted to hot adult contemporary CKKL.

In 1999, the CHEZ group of stations were acquired by Rogers Media.[1] On December 31 of that year, Rogers converted the station to a modern rock format and moved the station's studios into Ottawa, using the callsign CIOX and the brand name Xfm. However, in 2001 the CRTC found that by operating CIOX as an Ottawa station, Rogers was in contravention of market concentration rules about the number of radio stations in a single market that can be owned by the same company. As a result, the CRTC ordered Rogers to return the station to Smiths Falls.[2]

In October 2003, the station stunted for the day as 101.1 Frank FM, playing pretty much anything.[3][4]

On January 9, 2004, at Noon, the station adopted a country format when Rogers converted the former CKBY in Ottawa to the current CISS. 101.1 became CKBY Y101, and 105.3 became CISS a month later after the format change. The final song as "Xfm" was Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) by Green Day.

On June 28, 2013 at 3PM, the station was rebranded as Country 101.1, (pronounced as "Country One-Oh-One-One") part of Rogers' rebranding of its country-formatted stations to a unified brand. Other than the branding change, no format or staff changes were expected.[5]

Format change to all-news

On December 3, 2020, Rogers reorganized the content of its Ottawa stations with 1310 News becoming CityNews, simulcast on both CIWW (1310 AM) and CKBY-FM (101.1 FM), while CKBY's former country music format was transferred to 92.3 CJET-FM, which formerly used the "JACK" variety hits format.[6] [7] Since CKBY-FM 101.1 began simulcasting CIWW 1310 AM, 101.1 FM now transmits its signal in mono with just the RDS reading.

According to the Canadian Radio News Facebook group, CJET-FM moved from 92.3 to 101.1 and CKBY-FM moved from 101.1 to 92.3. [8]

References
  1. Decision CRTC 99-158
  2. Decision CRTC 2001-257
  3. 9. Canada Meets "Jack," "Bob" and "Dave" Scott Fybush, North East Radio Watch, Year in review 2003
  4. all eyes were on Rogers' CKBY-FM 105.3 Ottawa over the New Year holiday Scott Fybush, North East Radio Watch, January 5, 2004 Archived December 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Radio Insight: "Rogers Launches Canadian Country Brand", July 3, 2013.
  6. "1310 NEWS becomes CityNews, serving Ottawa and the Valley". CityNews. December 3, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  7. 1310 News, Country 101.1 taking up new frequencies on radio dial — Jack FM cancelled, Ottawa Citizen, December 3, 2020
  8. Call Letter Changes in Smiths Falls, Canadian Radio News, December 12, 2020

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