broadcast area chatham kent essex county windsor ontario branding 95.1 & 100.7 cool fm slogan we play it all frequency 95.1 mhz repeater s 100.7 ckue fm 1 first air date october 6 1999 on 94.3 fm format variety hits erp 42 000 watts ckue fm 3 840 watts average 9 000 watts peak ckue fm1 haat 133.5 m ckue fm 74.5 m ckue fm 1 class b ckue fm b1 ckue fm 1 owner blackburn radio webcast listen live website coolradio.ca ckue fm is a radio station located in chatham kent ontario . owned by blackburn radio the station broadcasts a variety hits format under the name 95.1 100.7 cool fm . the station broadcasts on 95.1 mhz and operates a rebroadcaster serving the nearby windsor market ckue fm 1 on 100.7 mhz . until 2014 the station broadcast an active rock format before flipping to soft adult contemporary due to increased competition from detroit s rock stations . ckue s main signal is broadcast from a tower a few kilometers west of the community of chatham ontario with an effective radiated power of 42 000 watts . contents 1 history 1.1 as the rock 1.2 as litefm 1.3 as cool fm 2 references 3 external links history edit as the rock edit ckue s former logo as the rock used in variations since 2002 the station began operations on october 6 1999 under the ownership of bea ver communications broadcasting an active rock station on 94.3 fm . 1 on may 4 2002 ckue switched frequencies with its sister station cksy to obtain its current frequency of 95.1 fm . ckue began operating a synchronized on channel rebroadcaster serving the nearby windsor market ckue fm 1 in march 2004 from an antenna mounted on the top of the 26 floor solidarity tower co op apartment building on the city s east end . 2 in 2005 blackburn radio acquired ckue along with sister station cksy . in september 2006 the canadian radio television and telecommunications commission crtc approved an application by blackburn to move the windsor signal from 95.1 to 100.7 mhz . this change allowed the windsor and chatham transmitters to increase their transmitter power . 3 4 during the 2004 2005 and 2005 2006 seasons of the ontario hockey league 95.1 provided live coverage of windsor spitfires games with shadd dales on play by play and brendan mcguire on colour . they returned to cklw in 2006 . as litefm edit on january 30 2014 at 6 p.m. ckue fm flipped from rock to a soft adult contemporary format branded as litefm . station management cited increased competition from detroit based stations as reasoning for the change . 5 as cool fm edit on april 16 2015 at 10 a.m. ckue fm flipped again this time to variety hits as cool fm ; blackburn radio s general manager walter ploegman stated that the litefm format was characterized by listeners as being too soft and sleepy and that the new format would be targeted to a middle aged adult demographic that is on the go active and looking for fun . 6 7 in 2016 a new low powered fm station began testing in nearby ferndale michigan also on 100.7 mhz . named wfcb lp the station broadcasts at just 100 watts at 81 feet above the ground and may be subject to interference from ckue fm 1 due to its vastly higher power 3840 watts average 9000 peak and the fact that its antenna atop solidarity tower is adjacent to the detroit river and therefore only a few hundred feet from the canada united states border which sits in the middle of the river . references edit decision crtc 99 443 broadcasting decision crtc 2003 603 broadcasting decision crtc 2005 500 broadcasting decision crtc 2006 563 https radioinsight.com blog headlines 87500 rock goes lite in windsor from lite to cool a new radio station for windsor . windsorite.ca . retrieved 16 april 2015 . https radioinsight.com blog headlines 92723 blackburn gets cool in windsor external links edit official website ckue fm 1 history canadian communications foundation ckue history canadian communications foundation query the rec s canadian station database for ckue fm v t e radio stations in southwestern ontario excluding american stations essex county windsor ckww 580 cklw 800 cbef 1550 cimx 88.7 cbe 89.9 cjah 90.5 cidr 93.9 cjwf 95.9 cbew 97.5 cjam 99.1 ckue 1 100.7 cina 102.3 cjbc 1 103.9 cbef 2 105.5 leamington cbew fm 1 91.9 cjsp 92.7 chyr 96.7 cbef 1 103.1 vaz533 162.475 point pelee national park cjpp 90.7 chatham kent chatham cfco 630 am & 92.9 fm cbee 88.1 ckgw 89.3 cksy 94.3 ckue 95.1 ckxs 99.1 ckbk 104.3 czt836 162.5251 lambton county kettle point ckti 107.7 sarnia chok 1070 am & 103.9 fm cbeg 90.3 cbef 3 98.3 cfgx 99.9 ckci 103.3 chks 106.3 xjv492 162.400 walpole island cfrz 98.3 defunct cfot 1150 weatheradio canada xjv492 162.400 sarnia oil springs vaz533 162.475 windsor leamington czt836 162.525 chatham kent 1 1cp granted to air soon ontario radio markets cornwall & eastern ontario hamilton niagara kenora district first nations radio kingston brockville kitchener waterloo london midwestern ontario north bay ottawa parry sound muskoka haliburton pembroke ottawa valley peterborough quinte belleville trenton rainy river simcoe county barrie orillia sault ste. marie sudbury thunder bay timiskaming timmins toronto windsor chatham sarnia see also list of radio stations in ontario detroit the thumb toledo sandusky cleveland radio coordinates 42 26 14 n 82 06 22 w 42.43722 n 82.10611 w 42.43722 ; 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