Radio station in North Bay, Ontario
CKAT
(600
AM
) is a Canadian
radio station
in
North Bay, Ontario
. The station, owned by
Rogers Radio
, a division of
Rogers Sports & Media
, airs a
country
,
news
and
sports
format.
History
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The station originally launched in 1967 at 93.7 FM, and was acquired by Northern Broadcasting, the owners of
CFCH
.
In 1979, CKAT adopted a
country
format and moved to 101.9 FM. In 1980, CKAT and CFCH were sold to
Telemedia
.
In 1996, Telemedia swapped the stations in a move similar to its 1990 switch involving
CKSO
and
CIGM
in
Sudbury
. CKAT took over CFCH's AM frequency, and CFCH moved to the FM station and adopted the new callsign
CKFX
.
In 2002, Telemedia sold the stations to
Standard Broadcasting
, who shortly sold them to Rogers.
In fall 2005, CKAT and CIGM underwent a format change, with country music cut back (although not entirely eliminated) in favour of increased news and sports programming. Since the change, both stations used the following slogans such as "Today's Country", "News Leader" and "Sports Leader".
The station's general manager is Peter McKeown, a former morning man for many years on CHUR and CKAT.
In 2009, CKAT's sister station
CIGM
in Sudbury (under the ownership of Rogers Media) was acquired by
Newcap Radio
and then converted the station to the FM dial. CKAT is currently one of the last high-powered commercial AM radio stations operating in Northern Ontario.
On July 2, 2013, at 3:00 pm, Rogers dropped the
AM 600 CKAT
branding with slogan "North Bay's News Leader/Today's Country" and rebranded CKAT as
Country 600
.
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On June 15, 2021,
Vista Radio
, an unrelated company to CKAT launched a new FM radio station with the return of the heritage CFCH call sign in North Bay airing a country music format as
Country 90.5
. The launch of the new
CFCH-FM
makes it the second country music radio station in the North Bay market with a similar branding to Rogers' CKAT
Country 600
.
Former logos
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References
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External links
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