CIUP-FM is a Canadian

Canada

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 radio station, broadcasting at 99.3 FM in Edmonton

Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

, Alberta

Alberta

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. The station, which uses the brand name up! 99.3, broadcasts an Adult Hits

Adult hits

Adult hits is a radio format, popular in the early 2000s, that does not adhere to a specific music genre, but instead draws from a wider playlist...

 music format. This station is owned by Rawlco Communications

Rawlco Communications

Rawlco Radio Ltd. is a Canadian media company. The company is the sole proprietor of thirteen radio stations in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the majority partner in Northwestern Radio Partnership, which owns four other stations in Saskatchewan...

 and received approval by the CRTC in July 2005 and was launched in September 2005 for testing, and officially debuted December 8, 2005 at 2 PM as CHMC-FM with a smooth jazz

Smooth jazz

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 format branded as "Magic 99". Magic's first song was Michael Bublé

Michael Bublé

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's Sway

Sway (song)

"Sway" is the English version of "¿Quién será?", a 1953 mambo song by Mexican composer and bandleader Pablo Beltrán Ruiz. The most famous version is that of Dean Martin recorded in 1954. English lyrics are by Norman Gimbel...

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On Tuesday, October 19, 2010

2010 in radio

The following events occurred in radio in 2010.-Events:*Date Unknown: CHOI/Quebec City flips from Alternative Rock to News/Talk.*January 4: KJCS/Lufkin, Texas goes silent....

, the station dropped its five-year-old smooth jazz

Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a genre of music that grew out of jazz fusion and is influenced by R&B, funk, rock, and pop music styles ....

 format, in favor of its current adult hits

Adult hits

Adult hits is a radio format, popular in the early 2000s, that does not adhere to a specific music genre, but instead draws from a wider playlist...

 format as up! 99.3, and adopted its current callsign. This leaves Rogers Radio

Rogers Radio

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's CHDI-FM

CHDI-FM

CHDI-FM is the callsign of a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102.9 FM in Edmonton, Alberta. The station broadcasts a modern rock format under the brand name SONiC 102.9.-General information and history:The OK Radio Group Ltd...

 in terms of Edmonton radio stations launched during the year 2005

2005 in radio

The year 2005 in radio involved some significant events.-Events:*April 29 - KFRC 610 AM in San Francisco, switches formats as a result of ownership change. KFRC becomes KEAR, the "Sound of the New Life", a listener-supported, gospel/religious only station. It had been previously KFRC from...

 to not change formats. up!'s first song was "Don't Stop

Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac song)

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" by Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

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. The launch was simulcast on Global TV Edmonton

CITV-TV

CITV-DT is a television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Known on air as Global Edmonton, the station is owned by Shaw Media, and is an owned-and-operated station of the Global Television Network. It transmits on channel 13 and cable 8 in Edmonton, and is carried on the Bell TV and Shaw...

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Rawlco, however, describes CIUP-FM as a classic hits

Classic hits

Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes rock and pop music from 1964 to 1989. The term is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym for the adult hits format, but is more accurately characterized as a contemporary style of the oldies format...

 station, but remains an adult hits

Adult hits

Adult hits is a radio format, popular in the early 2000s, that does not adhere to a specific music genre, but instead draws from a wider playlist...

 station because of fewer currents/recurrents at the station alongside 1990s

1990s in music

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 & 2000s

2000s in music

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 songs there. There are also classic rock

Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

 songs on the station's playlist as well, but CIUP-FM is described softer than rival CKNG-FM

CKNG-FM

CKNG-FM, broadcasting at 92.5 FM, is a radio station in Edmonton, Alberta. The station plays an adult hits format branded as Joe FM. Since Corus's other adult hits station in Kitchener, Ontario flipped to mainstream rock, CKNG-FM was the only adult hits station owned by Corus until 2011, when...

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On August 17, 2011, Rawlco Radio received CRTC approval to change the technical parameters of the station by increasing the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 148.4 to 272 meters and by relocating its transmitter.

Airstaff

On-air talent for up! 99.3fm includes Jason Roberts & Kari Skelton (The Wake up! Show), Charlee Morgan (Middays), Robbin Reay (Afternoons, Saturday Night), Tim Riess (Evenings, Weekend Afternoons), and Duncan Paterson (Weekend Mornings).

External links

• up! 99.3
• CIUP-FM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
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