CJKX-FM is a Canadian radio station. Although its official city of license is Ajax, Ontario, the station operates from studios in Oshawa, Ontario, along with CKDO and CKGE-FM. Broadcasting at 95.9 FM, the station airs a country format under the KX96 brand.
History
The station was launched on November 21, 1967 as AM 1390 CHOO. The station was acquired in 1973 by Community Communications and in 1977 by Golden West Broadcasting. In 1994, the station was purchased by its current owner, Durham Radio, and moved to its current FM frequency.
In 1999, the station added a 5 kW repeater (CJKX-FM-1) in Sunderland, which operates at 89.9 FM, to cover an area that receives interference from the first neighboring CFJB-FM.
In 2006, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved CJKX to add a repeater (CJKX-FM-2) in downtown Toronto to operate on 95.9 FM, the same frequency as the main station. The transmitter for this repeater is located at First Canadian Square.
The call sign CHOO was previously used at a station (now defunct) in Tofino, British Columbia from 2000 to 2002. The current call sign “CHOO” is now in use at a Drumheller, Alberta radio station known today as CHOO-FM. Both of these stations that used the call sign “CHOO” are not affiliated with CJKX.
On August 1, 2016, the CRTC rejected Durham Radio Inc.’s (Durham) application to change the authorized contours of CJKX-FM-2. The applicant proposed to change the transmitter class from A to B1 and increase the average effective radiation power (ERP) from 122 to 194 W (maximum ERP from 220 to 800 W).