cfox fm . cjax fm city vancouver bc broadcast area metro vancouver branding 96.9 jack fm slogan playing whatever whenever frequency 96.9 mhz fm also on hd radio first air date march 1 1980 format analog hd1 adult hits hd2 ckwx simulcast erp 75 kilowatts haat 686 metres class c transmitter coordinates 49 21 27 n 122 57 14 w 49.357365 n 122.953776 w 49.357365 ; 122.953776 cklg fm tower coordinates 49 21 27 n 122 57 14 w 49.357365 n 122.953776 w 49.357365 ; 122.953776 cklg fm tower callsign meaning sounds like jack former callsigns cjaz fm 1980 1985 ckks fm 1985 2002 cklg fm 2002 2014 former frequencies 92.1 mhz 1980 1984 owner rogers media a division of rogers communications rogers radio sister stations radio ckwx ckks fm tv ckvu dt chnm dt webcast listen live website www.jackfm.com cjax fm is a canadian radio station in the greater vancouver region of british columbia . it broadcasts at 96.9 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 . the station also operates a 1 430 watt repeater cjax fm 1 96.9 mhz in whistler british columbia . 1 studios are located in downtown vancouver and the station is currently owned by rogers communications . contents 1 format 2 history 3 controversy 4 references 5 external links format edit cklg was the first conventional radio station in north america to adopt the jack fm branding officially classified as a variety hits or adult hits format . most jack fm stations play a wide mix of music from the late 1960s through the 90s as well as some current adult contemporary hot adult contemporary singles . it formerly used the slogan playing what we want promoting itself as having a larger and more varied playlist than any other commercial radio stations . in the early years when the station was on am in north vancouver don north who later went on to become a famous war correspondent for a large us national tv network was the sound engineer . jack ammon has a weekly radio show as a keyboards accompanist for singers gary lee and bob stone . history edit in 1980 selkirk communications launched cjaz at 92.1 fm in vancouver with an all jazz music format transmitting from salt spring island at 100 000 watts . although overall regional coverage was very good poor stereo reception in the key vancouver area led the station to change frequencies and transmitter site to 96.9 mhz and mt seymour in 1984 transmitting at 75 000 watts . low ratings led to a format change on september 15 1985 when the station adopted an urban adult contemporary format the first in canada rebranded as fm 97 and the call sign was changed to ckks fm . this was followed about a year later by a switch to the adult contemporary music format and another on air rebranding as 97 kiss fm . four years later the station was sold to maclean hunter ltd and in 1994 it became a part of rogers broadcasting . the adult contemporary format would also arrive on chqm fm which dropped its easy listening format in 1992 and surpassed ckks as vancouver s leading ac station becoming vancouver s most listened to fm station later on . in 1988 west coast community t.v. association received crtc approval to add a very low power transmitter at 102.7 mhz in ucluelet to rebroadcast the programming of ckks fm . 2 the call sign for the ucluelet transmitter currently dark is ciwc fm . former jack fm logo used from 2002 2012 . in december of 2002 the station s adult contemporary format was dropped in favour of christmas music this was then followed by the adult hits format as jack fm on boxing day at 8 am . this ended the 10 year adult contemporary war in vancouver which meant that chqm fm is now the only ac station in the vancouver market . given the attitude inherent in the jack brand it was felt that the call sign ckks would maintain an undesirable association with kiss fm s soft favourites identity . as it turned out in 2001 corus entertainment had abandoned the old cklg call sign formerly assigned to one of its vancouver am stations mojo am 730 . rogers applied to transfer these letters to jack fm and the station s call sign became cklg fm shortly thereafter . this was in part an attempt to trade on cklg am s history as a popular vancouver music station in the 1960s 1970s and 1980s . the move was successful as jack fm s ratings increased dramatically at one point briefly surpassing traditional market leader cknw before settling into the upper rankings in the vancouver market . the ckks callsign was subsequently given to a sechelt rebroadcaster of cisq fm in squamish british columbia . coincidentally the jack fm format was cloned on a calgary radio station april 1 2003 on the same frequency as cklg and also owned by rogers communications . that station was formerly urban chrk kiss fm as the station changed calls to ckis fm and later to cjaq fm after swapping callsigns with toronto s jack fm as that station flipped back to top 40 as kiss fm . as a result jack fm toronto was the third jack fm outlet in canada . in july 2012 the station adopted the playing whatever whenever slogan . the station also added in more current adult contemporary hot adult contemporary songs from artists such as carly rae jepsen rihanna fun . and lmfao . on may 22 2013 the crtc approved rogers application to relocate its whistler transmitter cklg fm 1 from its current location to the cbc owned tower in whistler . this relocation will result in a decrease in the average effective radiated power erp from 586 to 474 watts directional antenna with a decrease in the maximum erp from 1 430 to 1 000 watts as well as an increase in the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 306.2 to 238.3 metres . 3 in august 2014 the stations changed its call sign from cklg fm to cjax fm . the cklg fm call sign was transferred to rogers owned cieg fm egmont rebroadcaster of cisq fm squamish . in may 2016 cjax signed on hd radio operations . 4 on june 23 cjax added a simulcast of sister ckwx on their hd2 sub channel . 5 6 controversy edit in 2005 some members of vancouver s indo canadian community accused the station of racial insensitivity with regards to its advertising strategy . 7 8 the ads in question featured vijay chandra a fijian radio engineer for the station with a strong indian accent singing to promote jack fm s larry and willy show . 9 the complaints stem from a perception that viewers are intended to laugh at chandra s accent rather than at the ad copy itself and that similar lyrics performed without an accent would not be considered humorous . references edit decision crtc 2000 405 decision crtc 88 18 broadcasting decision crtc 2013 259 cklg fm vancouver and cklg fm 1 whistler technical change crtc may 22 2013 https www.facebook.com rwcrn posts 1107072279332120 0 https www.facebook.com rwcrn photos a. 191085784264112.41586.191081700931187 1119722014733813 type 3 & theater http hdradio.com canada find hd radio canadian station hd radio stations in canada http www.voiceonline.com voice 050402 headline2.php http www.voiceonline.com voice 050416 headline7.php 96.9 jackfm.com external links edit official website cklg fm history canadian communications foundation query the rec s canadian station database for cklg fm query the rec s canadian station database for ciwc 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 102.7 chqm 103.5 chlg 104.3 ckks fm 2 104.9 cbu 105.7 ckav fm 2 106.3 cisf 107.7 cfml 107.9 us stations serving vancouver am kari 550 blaine wa krpi 1550 ferndale wa kvri 1600 blaine wa fm kwpz 106.5 lynden wa hd radio 96.9 1 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