radio broadcasting founded 1928 headquarters saint john new brunswick canada website acadia broadcasting acadia broadcasting limited is a commercial radio broadcasting company with its headquarters located on historic king street in saint john new brunswick canada . its owner is ocean capital investments new brunswick limited . the focus is providing local radio for the communities it serves live to air streaming on the internet and podcasts . acadia broadcasting operates four radio stations in new brunswick and two in nova scotia under the acadia broadcasting name . in 2007 acadia broadcasting acquired fawcett broadcasting with its three northwestern ontario radio stations . in january 2010 acadia acquired two more stations in thunder bay on . in march 2014 acadia acquired another station in moncton nb . 1 contents 1 history 2 stations operated by acadia broadcasting 3 references 4 external links history edit in 1928 cfbo was launched by c.a. monro limited . mr. monro had obtained a private commercial broadcasting license from the department of marine and fisheries of the dominion of canada in ottawa dated april 1 1928 for the purpose of setting up and operating an am radio station of only 50 watts in saint john new brunswick . this was radio license no. 23 issued in canada . in 1934 four saint john new brunswick newspaper publishing shareholders howard p. robinson j.d. mckenna t.f. drummie and l.w. bewick purchased the station cfbo from c.a. monro . overnight the station s new call letters became chsj and it broadcast out of a new modern studio with new experienced management . operated by saint john publishing co. limited chsj soon became an affiliate of cbc radio s trans canada network an important link in the development of the national network . in 1944 kenneth c. irving purchased saint john publishing company limited from its principal shareholder howard p. robinson . with this purchase irving acquired both the chsj radio station and the two local newspapers . later that year the company name was changed to new brunswick publishing company limited and its subsidiary new brunswick broadcasting was responsible for chsj radio . in 1989 new brunswick broadcasting purchased acadia broadcasting ckbw in bridgewater nova scotia from the retiring shareholders . the new ownership kept the station name acadia broadcasting . in 2001 new brunswick broadcasting launched two new radio stations in new brunswick chwv fm in saint john nb and chtd fm in st. stephen nb . in 2003 the names new brunswick broadcasting and acadia broadcasting were replaced by a single new name acadia broadcasting . in may 2007 acadia broadcasting limited acquired three radio stations in northern ontario ckdr fm in dryden cjrl fm in kenora and cfob fm in fort frances . through a series of repeaters ckdr fm in dryden also serves six other northern communities sioux lookout hudson ear falls red lake atikokan and ignace . 2 in january 2010 acadia acquired cjuk fm and cktg fm in thunder bay ontario from newcap broadcasting . on july 22 acadia broadcasting launched cjhk fm also known as hank fm in bridgewater ns . in march 2014 acadia broadcasting acquired ckni fm in moncton new brunswick from rogers broadcasting . the station re launched on august 8 2014 as 91.9 the bend metro s perfect music mix . in april 2016 acadia acquired cjls fm in yarmouth nova scotia from ray zinck and chris perry . the station re launched on september 16 2016 as y95 . 3 stations operated by acadia broadcasting edit bridgewater nova scotia ckbw fm cjhk fm yarmouth nova scotia cjls fm moncton new brunswick ckni fm saint john new brunswick chsj fm chwv fm st. stephen new brunswick chtd fm thunder bay ontario cktg fm cjuk fm dryden ontario ckdr fm fort frances ontario cfob fm kenora ontario cjrl fm references edit broadcasting decision crtc 2014 116 . broadcasting decision crtc 2008 295 long time yarmouth radio broadcasters retiring announce sale of cjls yarmouth vanguard external links edit acadia broadcasting v t e irving group of companies subsidiaries irving oil irving oil refinery canaport j.d. irving ltd. irving tissue irving equipment kent building supplies new brunswick railway new brunswick southern railway eastern maine railway maine northern railway brunswick news acadia broadcasting irving shipbuilding cavendish farms key people k. c. irving james k. irving arthur irving john e. irving retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title acadia broadcasting & oldid 739780079 categories radio broadcasting companies of canadacompanies based in saint john new brunswick navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial 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