CKPC-FM
CKPC-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 92.1 FM from 571 West Street in Brantford, Ontario. The station broadcasts a Soft AC music format, with a mix of oldies and an evening adult standards program known as The Lounge. It is known on air as '"Lite and Refreshing Jewel 92'" or simply, "Jewel 92." The station's signal also broadcasts to nearby Hamilton and Kitchener, and it was reported by Mediabase as a Hamilton station as a competitor to Hamilton's AC station 102.9 K-Lite FM. CKPC can also be well received to the south in Erie, Pennsylvania and extreme Western New York. It was removed from Mediabase's add board following rebranding, but Nielsen BDS continued to report CKPC-FM on the Canadian AC panel for a little while.
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CKPC (AM)
CKPC is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 1380 kHz in Brantford, Ontario, with its transmitter in the nearby township of Oakland. Owned and operated by Evanov Communications, the station airs a country music and Christian religious format branded as AM 1380.
History
CKPC went on the air in 1923. Its original city of license was Preston, Ontario (now part of the city of Cambridge, Ontario), but was moved to Brantford shortly after. The station first started out as an amateur radio station, but the founder (Wallace Russ) quickly applied for a broadcast license after a few trial broadcasts. His license was granted, and he started broadcasting from his home in Preston at a power of just 5 watts. After Russ sold the station to his friend Cyrus Dolph, he still remained active with the station, and watched it grow throughout its early years. Its power would later increase to 25 watts in 1927, doubling in power and moving to 1010 kHz at 50 watts in 1930, and to 880 kHz. The station's main content was local news, and local artists and talents from Kitchener, Hamilton, and Brantford.
