broadcast area metro vancouver branding the world famous cfox frequency 99.3 mhz fm first air date october 15 1964 format alternative rock erp 51 kws average 100 kws peak haat 368.4 meters 1 209 ft class c transmitter coordinates 49 21 27 n 122 57 14 w 49.357365 n 122.953776 w 49.357365 ; 122.953776 cfox fm tower coordinates 49 21 27 n 122 57 14 w 49.357365 n 122.953776 w 49.357365 ; 122.953776 cfox fm tower callsign meaning c fox former callsigns cklg fm 1964 1979 owner corus entertainment corus radio company sister stations radio chmj cknw cfmi fm tv chan dt global news bc 1 webcast listen live website www.cfox.com cfox fm identified on air and in print as cfox is a canadian radio station in the greater vancouver region of british columbia . it broadcasts at 99.3 mhz on the fm band with an effective radiated power of 75 000 watts from a transmitter on mount seymour in the district of north vancouver . studios are located in downtown vancouver in the td tower . the station is owned by corus entertainment . cfox has an alternative rock format as it reports to mediabase as a canadian alternative rock station . contents 1 history 2 fox seeds 3 references 4 external links history edit cfox began broadcasting on october 15 1964 on 99.3 mhz with 100 000 watts under the call sign cklg fm not to be confused with the new cklg fm in vancouver on 96.9 mhz a jack fm station . transmissions originally came from the south slope of fromme mountain in north vancouver . cklg fm initially began with an easy listening format but in the fall of 1967 it started experimenting with rock music at night . in october that year cklg fm program director frank callaghan hired record store owner bill reiter who later went on to become part of the dr. bundolo s pandemonium medicine show comedy troupe 1 to host the jazz blues program groovin blue on saturday evenings . cklg fm soon shifted to become canada s first full time fm rock music station on march 16 1968 with the expansion of groovin blue to six nights a week and the addition of tracks from rock folk and popular albums . in 1970 cklg fm added a two hour daily talk show hosted by allen garr which ran on the station until 1975 . by 1973 cklg fm had compiled a library of 3000 albums and all its programming was aired live except on sunday mornings with special programming on the station including the allen garr talk show live concerts and a saturday sock hop program . in 1976 under the guidance of new program director roy hennessy a former morning host on cklg am the fm station made the gradual transition to a progressive rock format . at noon on january 6 1979 cklg fm changed to cfox a call sign first used by a defunct am radio station in montreal quebec in the 1960s and 1970s . the switch was marked by the beatles song the end followed by the end by the doors concluding with three minutes of the sound of a scratching record commonly referred to as playing the label . the first song on the new cfox was steely dan s fm no static at all . in 1984 cfox moved its transmitter to the rogers broadcast multiplex on nearby mount seymour in order to reduce multipath reception problems . on august 20 1992 the canadian radio television and telecommunications commission crtc approved the sale of cfox and cklg from moffat communications ltd. to shaw communications . this was part of moffat s sale of its radio division . transfer of cklg cfox to shaw was completed on september 1 1992 . shaw s broadcasting division became corus entertainment in 1999 . when western international communications owner of classic rocker cfmi sold its radio stations to corus in 2000 cfox shifted from album oriented rock to alternative rock aiming at rogers former alternative rocker 104.9 xfm ckvx fm 104.9 which signed on december 31 1999 . in 1998 the station received approval to add a transmitter at whistler british columbia to operate on the frequency 92.3 mhz with the callsign cfox fm 1 . 2 rogers changed ckvx from alternative rock to a smooth jazz adult contemporary hybrid as ckcl on december 26 2003 making cfox the lone alternative rocker in vancouver . cfox soon returned to an active rock format mixing in classic hard rock and heavy metal music but continues to lean alternative rock . most alternative songs were toned down when ckpk fm signed on in 2008 . by 2011 the station returned to alternative . on july 14 2011 the crtc approved corus s application to increase the average effective radiated power erp from 35 200 to 51 000 watts maximum erp from 75 000 to 100 000 watts . 3 fox seeds edit every year since 1979 there has been a competition through voting live events and a concert with the finalists at the commodore ballroom and radio air play on cfox of unsigned local bands that have entered to compete for that year . it is narrowed down to a few winners and one platinum winner . prizes include cars support agency management recording guidance and other items which can be instrumental to a bands career like the ones below . 4 notable winners nickelback bif naked matthew good band gob murray atkinson 2007 default faber drive 2005 theory of a deadman state of shock incura 2008 goodbye beatdown 2009 stars of boulevard 2010 head of the herd 2011 gentlemen prefer blondes 2011 fields of green 2012 5 references edit vancouver broadcasters dr. bundolo s pandemonium medicine show decision crtc 98 214 broadcasting decision crtc 2011 422 1 2 external links edit official website cfox fm history canadian communications foundation query the rec s canadian station database for cfox fm v t e radio stations in greater vancouver am cisl 650 cbu 690 chmj 730 cknw 980 ckst 1040 ckwx 1130 cjrj 1200 chmb 1320 cfte 1410 cjvb 1470 defunct cima 1040 sw ckzu 6.16 mhz defunct ckfx sw 6.08 mhz fm cbu 2 88.1 vf2521 88.3 chnw 88.7 cfvt 89.3 vf2686 89.9 cjsf 90.1 cbux 90.9 vf2688 91.5 ckye 93.1 cjjr 93.7 cfbt 94.5 ckzz 95.3 chkg 96.1 cjax 96.9 cbuf 97.7 cirh 98.3 ckpm 98.7 cfox 99.3 cfro 100.5 cfmi 101.1 citr 101.9 ckpk 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