area greater toronto area branding boom 97.3 slogan 70 s 80 s 90 s frequency 97.3 mhz fm first air date december 26 2009 format classic hits erp 28 900 watts haat 420.5 meters 1 380 ft class c1 callsign meaning c h boom former callsigns cjez fm 1987 2009 owner newcap radio sister stations cfxj fm webcast listen live website www.boom973.com chbm fm is a radio station in toronto ontario canada broadcasting at 97.3 fm . the station currently broadcasts a classic hits music format branded as boom 97.3 . chbm s studios are located at yonge street and st. clair avenue in toronto s deer park neighbourhood while their transmitter is located atop the cn tower . the station s playlist contains tracks from the 1970s 1980s and 1990s with a core focus on music released in the 1980s while also playing select tracks from the 1960s and early 2000s . contents 1 history 1.1 as boom 97.3 2 references 3 external links history edit the station was launched on may 24 1987 at 9 00 am by redmond broadcasting with the call letters cjez fm and carried an easy listening format under the branding easy 97 . in the early 1990s it changed its moniker to lite 97 but soon after it changed its format to classic hits as z97 .3 . in february 1995 redmond sold the station to telemedia and on june 30 at 5 30 am the station changed monikers to 97.3 ez rock . the slogan was the heartbeat of toronto and aired an adult contemporary format . ez rock launched with the intent of having an audience of mainly women ages 25 44 and the toronto station became the flagship when several other stations owned by telemedia at the time broadcasting a similar format also gained the ez rock branding . in the summer of 1998 cjez aired liners in italian french spanish and cantonese as a way to acknowledge the racial diversity in the city . the station went through several slogan changes during its tenure with the ac format including my music at work which inspired the title of the tragically hip s 2000 album music at work . it also had a modified version of that slogan toronto s music work . in later years the station had other taglines such as toronto s soft rock favourites today s soft rock with less talk a better variety of yesterday and today and toronto s at work station . in 2002 standard radio bought telemedia and kept cjez under their ownership while some of the other ez rock stations were sold to either rogers communications or astral media . since standard acquired cjez fm from telemedia in 2002 the studios of cjez fm were relocated to the cfrb ckfm fm building . in 2003 rival station chfi fired long time morning show host erin davis and was replaced by mad dog and billie . to combat this in 2004 cjez hired davis to partner alongside mike cooper who had been at the station since the flip to ez rock in 1995 because long time co host christine cardoso left due to maternity leave . however when davis was rehired by chfi in 2005 and returned to mornings chfi s ratings skyrocketed back to 1 causing cjez to slip . to solve this ez rock hired stu jeffries who returned to the station in 2011 for mornings from 5 9 and colleen rusholme for mornings and the station began leaning in a more hot ac direction patterned after its sister station ckfm fm now a chr station as of 2009 . during its latter days as ez rock the station removed songs from the 1960s . in 2007 astral purchased standard resulting in the standard owned ez rock stations across canada including cjez become astral owned . in 2008 humble howard and kim stockwood joined rusholme and took over ez rock s morning show in august replacing stu jeffries . in june of the same year rick hodge formerly a long time morning co host on chum fm joined ez rock and sister station cfrb . in november 2009 hodge and stockwood left ez rock . a short time later midday announcer darryl henry was gone from the station as well he is now at chfi . henry had been with the station since 1997 and has hosted evenings and afternoons before moving to middays . former cjez logo . as boom 97.3 edit on december 24 2009 during its standard christmas music run during the holidays ez rock s website was changed completely by hosting only a countdown clock and a posted message urging listeners to tune in on december 26 at 9 00 a.m. on december 26 at 6 am after playing ez rock s final song which was christina aguilera s version of this christmas the station began stunting with a recorded message on how to view the launch of the new station . finally at 9 am the station ended its 14 year run with ac and flipped to classic hits with the branding boom 97.3 toronto s greatest hits adopting the boom fm branding used by some of astral s small market french language stations in quebec . the first song played on boom was don t stop believin by journey . cjez s call letters were changed the following day to chbm fm . the station s airstaff remained intact for a time but in may 2011 humble howard and colleen rusholme were let go by the station . 1 the flip to boom put the station in direct competition with cing fm which became a classic hits station a month earlier in november 2009 ; that station later switched formats to hot ac in 2013 . currently chbm competes with active rock station cilq fm . also the flip left chfi as the only adult contemporary station in the toronto radio market . however ckdx fm could now be known as a direct competitor to that station along with hamilton s cklh fm . it became toronto s first adult hits station ever since former jack fm station cjaq fm now ckis fm switched to mainstream rock in 2006 . so far boom has been more successful than jack fm . during the first book of boom it debuted with a 9.3 share slightly higher than what it was in ez rock s last book and one of the highest rated books since 2005 . since then boom has become one of the highest rated stations in the toronto radio market according to numeris usually placing within the top 3 next to chum fm and chfi respectively . on may 28 2010 astral media launched cjot fm 99.7 in ottawa as the new flagship station of ez rock and took over cjez fm s former website ezrock.com . chbm is the only boom fm station with an adult hits format although its logo consists of the same font and 45 rpm insert device as its french language counterparts . the boom fm branding was cloned on cjot fm on june 30 2011 replacing adult contemporary with classic hits . in march 2013 the competition bureau approved a proposal by bell media to acquire astral media under the condition that it divest itself of several television services and radio stations . following the closure of the merger chbm was placed in a blind trust pending its eventual sale . 2 3 4 on august 26 2013 newcap radio announced it would acquire chbm along with four other former astral stations for 112 million . 5 the deal was approved by the crtc on march 19 2014 and the sale closed on march 31 2014 . 6 7 references edit humble and colleen fired from boom 97.3 biblic mirko . re voting trust agreement between bce inc. and pierre boivin the trustee application no. 2013 0243 9 approved . crtc . retrieved 5 july 2013 . competition bureau ok s bce astral deal with conditions . cbc news . retrieved 5 march 2013 . bell moves closer to astral with sale of tv assets . the globe and mail . retrieved 5 march 2013 . newcap signs agreement with bell media to acquire five radio stations in toronto and vancouver . cnw . retrieved 26 august 2013 . broadcasting decision crtc 2014 129 newcap radio receives crtc approval to purchase stations in toronto and vancouver . canada newswire . march 19 2014 . retrieved march 20 2014 . external links edit boom 97.3 chbm fm history canadian communications foundation query the rec s canadian station database for chbm fm v t e radio stations in the greater toronto area toronto am cjcl 590 cftr 680 cfzm 740 cjbc 860 cfrb 1010 chum 1050 cjru 1280 chkt 1430 chin 1540 chha 1610 chto 1690 defunct chev 1610 toronto fm cind 88.1 cirv 88.9 ciut 89.5 cjbc 90.3 cjrt 91.1 chin 1 91.9 ckis 92.5 cfxj 93.5 cbl 94.1 cjkx 2 95.9 cfmz 96.3 cfzm 1 96.7 ckhc 96.9 chbm 97.3 chfi 98.1 ckfg 98.7 cbla 99.1 ckfm 99.9 chin 100.7 cjsa 101.3 cjrk 102.7 cirr 103.9 chum 104.5 choq 105.1 chry 105.5 cilq 107.1 defunct ckln 88.1 ckrg 89.91 cko fm 2 99.1 cjvf 102.7 ckav 106.5 peel region brampton ciao 530 new 1350 cfny 102.1 caledon cfgm 102.7 cjfb 105.5 mississauga cknt 960 cjmr 1320 cina 1650 ckc455 cfre 91.9 defunct cfbn 1280 durham region ajax cjkx 95.9 oshawa ckdo 1580 107.7 ckge 94.9 york region georgina island cfgi 92.3 richmond hill cfmj 640 markham chev 16101 cfms 105.9 newmarket ckdx 88.5 chop 102.7 stouffville ciws 102.9 uxbridge ciux 105.5 vaughan cfu758 90.7 halton region oakville cjye 1250 dufferin county orangeville ckmo 101.5 cidc 103.5 shelburne cfdc 104.9 shortwave cfrx 6.07 mhz specialty hmwn radio maria sur sagar radio radio humsafar hd digital radio 92.5 1 92.5 2 92.5 3 101.3 1 101.3 2 101.3 3 101.3 4 105.9 1 105.9 2 105.9 3 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