area detroit windsor toledo branding 89x slogan detroit s new rock alternative frequency 88.7 mhz first air date july 10 1967 as ckww fm format active leaning alternative rock language s english erp 78 200 watts average 100 000 watts peak haat 188.5 meters 618 ft class c1 facility id 94688 transmitter coordinates 42 10 14.88 n 82 59 29.01 w 42.1708000 n 82.9913917 w 42.1708000 ; 82.9913917 callsign meaning the mix former branding former callsigns 1970 1990 cjom 1967 1970 ckww fm owner bell media bell media windsor radio partnership sister stations ckww cidr fm cklw webcast listen live website 89xradio . com cimx fm 88.7 fm branded 89x is a commercial active leaning alternative rock radio station based in windsor ontario . 89x serves both essex county ontario and metro detroit ; its 100 000 watt signal reaches most of southwestern ontario southeastern michigan the toledo metro area and the western lake erie shoreline of ohio . cimx fm also broadcasts a soft rock music program continuously on its 92 khz scmo subcarrier . the program is not intended for public reception but rather provides background music for businesses similar to muzak . contents 1 history 1.1 ckww fm ohm fm 1.2 the mix to 89x 1.3 89x today 2 annual 89x sponsored shows 3 references 4 external links history edit ckww fm ohm fm edit what is now cimx had its first stint as a progressive alternative rock station long before the birth of 89x . the station signed on july 10 1967 as ckww fm with an mor easy listening format . ckww fm added evening progressive rock programming in the fall of 1970 . the following april the station changed its calls to cjom and the progressive format went full time . om fm pronounced ohm fm distinguished itself from its detroit competitors wrif wwww and wabx by emphasizing canadian talent . by 1976 the album rock sounds of om fm had faded away and the station was again programming mor music . however in 1982 under the ownership of geoff stirling s company stirling communications international which also owned ckgm radio in montreal and choz fm in st. john s among other properties the station made an abrupt switch to a chr top 40 format . in the late 1980s the station went by the moniker laser rock a reference to becoming one of the first if not the first radio stations in the detroit area to program music solely from compact discs . cjom ran afoul of the crtc in the summer of 1983 for its format change to contemporary hits . then as now all radio station format changes in canada must be approved by the crtc . cjom had been approved for a contemporary mor a.k.a. adult contemporary format but analyses of the station s programming in may 1983 showed that almost all of the music being played was rock oriented that the station was playing 78 % hit music rather than the allowed 50 % and that the station was not meeting its licence commitments for foreground mosaic spoken word or news programming . stirling maintained that the station was experimenting with its programming and that such a format was necessary in order to make the station competitive with detroit based broadcasters . 1 stirling and the crtc finally reached a compromise in august 1985 whereas cjom was granted an experimental licence which would enable the station to play more harder edged rock and pop music with higher repetition although a proposal to reduce the station s canadian content quotient to 5 % from 15 % was denied . 2 under this experimental licence cjom remained a chr formatted radio station for most of the rest of the decade . most rock songs played were top 40 based like animal by def leppard and everybody wants you by billy squier . the station also included many canadian pop songs by artists like platinum blonde haywire and gino vannelli . cjom would occasionally include several songs by one artist in a star set during the day . on sunday evenings cjom would broadcast an album countdown in which the station would play several songs from same album in the countdown . in 1987 cjom upgraded their transmitting power to 100 000 watts from the transmitting tower in mcgregor . before this the station s signal did not extend much further than the detroit windsor area . during these years however the station had little to no ratings impact in the detroit market . the station location changed a few times in the years ; originally located in the macabee s building next to the wandalyn viscount hotel on ouellette avenue between erie street and giles boulevard . in late 1982 the station moved to the bob pedler building along with her sister station ckww located on cabana road east near howard avenue in the southern part of windsor . eventually the station relocated to the former big 8 cklw building at the corner of ouellette avenue and tecumseh road west when chum limited purchased the station . station logo circa 1982 on employees jackets station public promo decal mid 1980s rear of employees jacket while stirling owned the station the mix to 89x edit cjom became cimx in 1990 . cimx was first known as the mix with an adult contemporary format but dj greg st. james began playing modern rock on his evening show 8 00 pm to midnight beginning in september 1990 and on may 13 1991 the modern rock format went full time and 89x was born . the first song on 89x was stop by jane s addiction . cimx immediately took away many listeners from other youth oriented stations in detroit particularly top 40 96.3 whyt and 99.5 the fox and may have been at least partially responsible for whyt s decision to switch to an alternative format a few years later . this decal shows the station s updated logo after its change to modern rock in 1991 . 89x today edit cimx had been owned by canada s chum limited since the late 1980s but was sold along with the rest of chum s radio stations to ctvglobemedia in 2007 . its sister station cidr fm adopted an adult album alternative format again in 2006 thus forcing cimx to add more active rock songs to the playlist and go up against wrif . 89x receives little interference from lower powered stations broadcasting near its frequency . the station can be heard clearly as far north as caro michigan as far west as greenville michigan and as far south as north baltimore ohio on a typical car radio . it can be regularly heard across lake erie at sandusky ohio and southeast to the greater norwalk ohio area where it is the only station available featuring an exclusively modern rock format . cimx also gets respectable ratings in toledo . the station is broadcast live across the internet on their website . they also podcast their morning show cal & co. along with their rock interviews . in the february 29 2012 issue of real detroit weekly 89x was rated the best radio station in detroit . real detroit weekly also crowned 89x s own jay hudson the best dj in detroit for the fourth consecutive year in a row . 1 in addition to the various annual shows the station holds many acoustic live x events when bands come to town . the acoustic renditions have even been used by many of the bands including soundgarden s re release of king animal king animal plus when the band performed their song halfway there . 2 annual 89x sponsored shows edit 89x celebrated its first birthday in may 1992 by holding two x fest shows . peter murphy the nymphs senseless things were a few of the bands that played x fest . then in 1993 89x held a birthday show at chene park featuring the tragically hip . the next year 1994 89x started throwing annual birthday bash shows . the birthday bash in 1994 was held at the phoenix plaza amphitheater during the world cup competitions in pontiac . the afghan whigs beck and the odds were some of the bands that played . notable 89x shows year event bands 1998 the night 89x stole christmas garbage placebo beck and everlast 2006 the night 89x stole christmas my chemical romance taking back sunday angels & airwaves ok go and the hard lessons 2007 the night 89x stole christmas paramore and jimmy eat world mutemath . coheed and cambria and plain white t s 2008 the night 89x stole christmas fall out boy the red jumpsuit apparatus the academy is ... and innerpartysystem 2009 the 89x birthday bash incubus & the duke spirit 2009 the night 89x stole christmas thirty seconds to mars flyleaf thousand foot krutch the veer union and after midnight project 2010 the 89x birthday bash sublime with rome the dirty heads paper tongues neon trees and civil twilight 2010 the night 89x stole christmas my chemical romance and also featured sick puppies and middle class rut 2011 the 89x birthday bash blink 182 my chemical romance and matt and kim 2011 the night 89x stole christmas rise against taking back sunday and awolnation 2012 the 89x birthday bash evanescence chevelle cavo and kaleido 2012 the night 89x stole christmas the killers and tegan & sara 2013 the 89x birthday bash day 1 hollywood undead escape the fate middle class rut 3 pill morning and chaos rains day 2 311 cypress hill g. love & special sauce and iamdynamite 2013 cal & co. and 89x chill on the hill day 1 a day to remember pierce the veil all time low and the wonder years day 2 thirty seconds to mars billy talent biffy clyro and new politics 2013 the 89x nutcracker 2013 the night 89x stole christmas cage the elephant blue october foals and iamdynamite 2014 the 89x birthday bash kings of leon kongos and ashes of soma 2014 89x and bud light chill on the hill day 1 offspring a day to remember bad religion grouplove portugal the man sleeper agent the bots smashing satellites and more . day 2 rise against chevelle awolnation taking back sunday uss brick and mortar the orwells skaters and more . 2014 the night 89x stole xmas bush our lady peace you me at six and smashing satellites 2015 the 89x birthday bash death cab for cutie and the antlers 2015 89x and bud light chill on the hill day 1 weezer panic at the disco andrew mcmahon in the wilderness we came as romans thousand foot krutch beartooth the wombats night riots vinyl theater coleman hell and arkells . day 2 cage the elephant coheed and cambria cold war kids jr jr robert delong x ambassadors the glorious sons civil twilight the struts kaleido and five hundredth year . 2015 the night 89x stole xmas day 1 awolnation metric and pvris day 2 sublime with rome uss band mutemath and autumn kings references edit http www.realdetroitweekly.com detroit best media content oid 1540467 king animal track listing external links edit official website cimx fm history canadian communications foundation radio locator information on cimx fm michiguide.com cimx fm query the rec s canadian station database for cimx fm v t e radio stations in southwestern ontario excluding american stations essex county windsor ckww 580 cklw 800 cbef 1550 cimx 88.7 cbe 89.9 cjah 90.5 cidr 93.9 cjwf 95.9 cbew 97.5 cjam 99.1 ckue 1 100.7 cina 102.3 cjbc 1 103.9 cbef 2 105.5 leamington cbew fm 1 91.9 cjsp 92.7 chyr 96.7 cbef 1 103.1 vaz533 162.475 point pelee national park cjpp 90.7 chatham kent chatham cfco 630 am & 92.9 fm cbee 88.1 ckgw 89.3 cksy 94.3 ckue 95.1 ckxs 99.1 ckbk 104.3 czt836 162.5251 lambton county kettle point ckti 107.7 sarnia chok