CFOX-FM
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| Broadcast area | Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Branding | "The Fox" |
| First air date | October 15, 1964 |
| Frequency | 99.3 MHz (FM) |
| Format | Active Rock, Modern Rock |
| ERP | 100 kW |
| Callsign meaning | C Fox |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment |
| Website | www.cfox.com |
CFOX-FM (identified on air and in print as 99.3 The Fox) 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 100,000 watts from a transmitter on Mount Seymour in the District of North Vancouver. Studios are located in downtown Vancouver, and the station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CFOX has an active rock format.
[edit] History
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 spring of 1967, it started experimenting with rock music at night, before shifting to become Canada's first full-time FM rock music station in 1968. At noon on January 6, 1979, CKLG-FM changed to the call sign CFOX. The switch was marked by The Beatles song "The End", followed by "The End" by The Doors, followed by three minutes of silence. The first song on the "new" CFOX was Steely Dan's "FM".
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 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.
Rogers changed CKVX from alternative rock to a smooth jazz/adult contemporary hybrid as 104.9 Clear FM, under the CKCL callsign on December 26, 2003, making CFOX the lone alternative rocker in Vancouver. CFOX mixed in classic hard rock and heavy metal music like what its sister station, CFPL-FM in London, Ontario, did in January, 2004.
[edit] The FOX on air shows
- “The Jeff O’Neil Show”
- “Neil Morrison and the Nineties at Noon”
- “Todd and Karen and the Furious Five at 5”
- “6 O’clock Rock Report”
- “Danger and the FOX Cage Match”
- “ Indie Night in Canada”
- “The Ongoing History of New Music”
- “Punk-O-Rama”
- “Scott Alan”
- “Lana”
- "The Shop"
Vancouver: CIVL 88.7 (Abbotsford) | CJSF 90.1 | CBUX 90.9 | CBYF 91.7 (Chilliwack) | CKYE 93.1 | CJJR 93.7 | CFBT 94.5 | CKZZ 95.3 | CHKG 96.1 | CKLG 96.9 | CBUF 97.7 | CKSR 98.3 (Chilliwack) | CFOX 99.3 | CBYW 100.1 (Whistler) | CFSR 100.5 (Hope) | CFMI 101.1 | CBUE 101.7 (Hope) |
CITR 101.9 | CISW 102.7 | CFRO 102.7 | CHQM 103.5 | CKCL 104.9 | CBU 105.7 | CKAV-2 106.3 |
CKQC 107.1 (Abbotsford) | CISQ 107.1 (Squamish) | CFML 107.9
Victoria: CBUX 89.9 | CBCV 90.5 | CJZN 91.3 | CBU-1 92.1 | CIOC 98.5 | CKKQ 100.3 | CFUV 101.9 | CHTT 103.1 | CHBE 107.3
Bellingham: KUGS 89.3 | KMWS 90.1 (Mount Vernon) | KSVR 91.7 (Mount Vernon) | KZAZ 91.7 |
KISM 92.9 | KMRE 102.3 | KAVZ 102.5 | KWPA 103.1 | KAFE 104.3 | KWPZ 106.5
Port Angeles/Forks: KVIX 89.3 | KNWP 90.1 | KBDB 103.9
