CJCS is a Canadian

Canada

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 radio station

Radio station

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 in Stratford, Ontario

Stratford, Ontario

Stratford is a city on the Avon River in Perth County in southwestern Ontario, Canada with a population of 32,000.When the area was first settled by Europeans in 1832, the townsite and the river were named after Stratford-upon-Avon, England. It is the seat of Perth County. Stratford was...

 with an oldies

Oldies

Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....

 format at AM 1240 kHz.

The station, known as "10AK" began broadcasting in 1928 as an amateur station

Amateur radio station

An amateur radio station is an installation designed to provide radiocommunications in the amateur radio service for an amateur radio operator. Radio amateurs build and operate several types of amateur radio stations, including fixed ground stations, mobile stations, space stations, and temporary...

 at 250 metres. In 1933, the station changed to 1200 kHz, moved to 1210 kHz in 1936 and then moved to its present frequency at 1240 kHz on March 29, 1941. 10AK switched to its present callsign CJCS in 1935.

CJCS was owned by Raedio Inc. and opened up a new FM sister station CHGK-FM

CHGK-FM

CHGK-FM is a Canadian radio station in Stratford, Ontario with an adult contemporary format at 107.7 FM. The station uses an on air branding as FM 107.7.-History:...

 on September 2, 2003.

Lloyd Robertson

Lloyd Robertson

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, Bob Bratina and Tony Parsons

Tony Parsons (Canadian journalist)

Tony Parsons is a longtime Canadian broadcaster whose career has spanned more than 50 years, and he has anchored the second most-watched local evening TV newscast in North America, the News Hour on CHAN-TV in Vancouver, British Columbia...

 all started their respective broadcasting careers at this station.

In September 2010, Raedio Inc. announced a tentative deal, pending CRTC approval, to sell the station to Haliburton Broadcasting Group

Haliburton Broadcasting Group

The Haliburton Broadcasting Group is a Canadian group of FM radio stations, located primarily in smaller markets in Ontario.-History:The company is named for the Haliburton region in Central Ontario, where majority owner and president Christopher Grossman, a longtime radio sales manager, trainer...

 which received CRTC approval on February 21, 2011 .

There are possibilities CJCS will be converted to the FM dial

FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...

 in the future.

External links

• AM 1240 CJCS
• CJCS history at Canadian Communications Foundation
  Canadian Communications Foundation
  The Canadian Communications Foundation is a history of Canadian broadcasting for radio and television chronicles and documents. It also provides a history of radio and television stations, including networks, programs, broadcasters and many others....