cjsd fm . ckpr fm city thunder bay ontario branding 91.5 ckpr slogan thunder bay s best music frequency 91.5 mhz fm repeater s 93.5 ckpr fm 2 atikokan first air date 1927 am june 4 2007 91.5 fm december 4 2011 93.5 fm format hot adult contemporary erp 100 kws horizontal polarization only haat 308.7 meters 1 013 ft class c callsign meaning c k pioneer radio or ck itu prefix port arthur former frequencies 890 khz 1927 1933 780 khz 1933 1935 930 khz 1935 1938 730 khz 1938 1941 580 khz 1941 08 03 2007 owner dougall media website www.ckpr.com ckpr fm is a radio station in thunder bay ontario canada . owned by dougall media the station broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 91.5 fm and 93.5 fm in atikokan ontario . history edit the station was originally launched in midland in 1927 . it was purchased by the dougall motor car company in 1931 and moved to fort william . the station originally aired at 890 am moving to 780 in 1933 930 in 1935 730 in 1938 and finally 580 in 1941 . the station became an affiliate of the cbc s trans canada network in 1947 . in 1948 the station s owners launched an fm simulcast on ckpr fm . in 1962 the owners also acquired cfpa tv the city s cbc television affiliate which then adopted the ckpr callsign as well . in 2006 dougall applied to change the station s frequency to 91.5 fm . this application was approved by the crtc on february 2 2007 . 1 the transition occurred on june 4 2007 at 12 00 pm et and was simulcast on thunder bay television . 2 the am 580 signal then went to a repeating message advising listeners to tune to 91.5 fm . it s believed that ckpr 580 am had left the air for good on august 3 2007 however the 580 am signal was to leave the air by early september of that year . 3 after the station s fm conversion the station adopted an adult contemporary format clarification needed dropping its former news talk programming . the station eventually evolved to its current hot adult contemporary format . on march 2 2011 the station applied to the crtc to add an fm transmitter at atikokan ontario to rebroadcast the programming of ckpr fm thunder bay . the crtc approved c.j.s.d. inc. s application on september 30 2011 and the new ckpr fm transmitter in atikokan will operate on the frequency of 93.5 mhz with the callsign ckpr fm 2 . 4 the atikokan transmitter officially signed on december 5 2011 at noon . references edit crtc decision 2007 55 1 2 broadcasting decision crtc 2011 635 external links edit official website ckpr history canadian communications foundation query the rec s canadian station database for ckpr fm v t e radio stations in thunder bay district ontario thunder bay cbqt 88.3 cbon 20 89.3 cksi 90.5 ckpr 91.5 cjsd 94.3 cjoa 95.1 citb 97.1 cjtl 1 98.1 cjuk 99.9 cbq 101.7 cilu 102.7 cktg 105.3 armstrong cbqt 2 91.3 fm greenstone beardmore cble 1240 geraldton cblg 89.1 cbon 22 93.7 chgs 94.7 cfno 4 100.7 longlac cfno 5 107.1 nakina cbln 1240 ckte 89.9 cfno 7 107.1 kaministiquia cfqk 104.5 manitouwadge cbeb 89.7 cbon 23 96.9 marathon cblm 1090 cfno 93.1 cbon 29 102.3 nipigon cbon 19 97.3 cbqy 98.9 cfno 1 100.7 pigeon river cipr 97.3 savant lake cbql 104.9 schreiber cblb 1340 shuniah cked 103.5 terrace bay cbeh 1010 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 radio stations in first nations in northwestern ontario houghton radio coordinates 48 31 27 n 89 06 53 w 48.52417 n 89.11472 w 48.52417 ; 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