CKBZ-FM

CKBZ-FM is a

The station was first launched in 1926 as CFJC 1120 AM, owned by the local N. S. Dalgliesh & Son department store. It was acquired by the Kamloops Sentinel in 1932, and changed frequency the following year to 1310. The station became an affiliate of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, a corporate precursor to the CBC, and retained an affiliation with CBC Radio's main network afterward. Its frequency subsequently changed to 800 AM in 1934, 880 in 1935 and 910 in 1941. The Sentinel finally sold the station to Inland Broadcasters in 1957.

Sister station CFJC-FM was launched in 1962.

CFJC dropped its CBC affiliation in 1977 when the CBC launched CBYK-FM, then a local rebroadcaster of Vancouver's CBU. The station then moved to its final AM frequency, 550, in 1979.

CFJC and its FM sister station were acquired by the Jim Pattison Group, their current owner, in 1987. Pattison converted CFJC to its current FM frequency,

The Logan Lake TV Society also rebroadcasts CKBZ at 91.1 FM in their area. [2]

References

External links

• B-100
• CKBZ-FM at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
• CKBZ-FM in the REC Canadian station database

50°40′15″N 120°23′55″W / 50.67083°N 120.39861°W / 50.67083; -120.39861