CICX-FM
CICX is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 105.9 FM in Orillia, Ontario. The station airs an adult hits format under the Jack FM brand.
The station was originally launched in 1943, broadcasting at 1450 AM in Nobel, with the call sign CFPS. Following the end of World War II, the station's owner, Gordon Ellesworth Smith, wanted to affiliate the station with CBC Radio's Dominion Network, but without a feed line to get CBC programming to the station, this was not possible in Nobel — so in the summer of 1945, the station was shut down and moved to Orillia, where it relaunched on September 3 as AM 1450 CFOR. The station joined the Dominion Network the following year.
In 1954, the station moved to AM 1570.
In 1957, a fire destroyed the station's transmitter building, but with help from other broadcasters, the station was back on the air within a day. Later that year, the station increased its signal power to 10,000 watts daytime and 5,000 watts nighttime. Bob Hope, who was in Toronto performing at the Canadian National Exhibition, visited CFOR on September 4 of that year to officially launch the station's new transmitter.
In 1964, the station dropped its CBC affiliation, and was sold to a consortium that included Maclean-Hunter. In 1967, Maclean-Hunter became the station's sole owner.
In 1976, the station was reacquired by local owners, who in turn sold it to Telemedia in 1980.
In 1993, the station moved to the FM band at 105.9 MHz, adopting its current call sign and a country music format. Prior to CFOR's move from the AM band at 1570 KHz to the FM band at 105.9 MHz (as CICX) in 1993, the 105.9 FM frequency was formerly occupied by the CBC, known as CBCO which moved to its current 91.5 FM frequency. [1]
In 1996, the station switched to an adult contemporary format using the EZ Rock brand. (The former CFOR call letters that were used in Orillia, now belong to a FM radio station out of Maniwaki, Québec).
In 2002, when Telemedia was acquired by Standard Broadcasting, CICX was one of the stations Standard immediately resold to Rogers Communications. With the transaction, Rogers switched the station's branding to 105.9 Lite FM. The following year, the station switched to its current format and branding.
On June 4, 2007, Larche Communications announced a deal with Rogers to acquire CICX in exchange for Larche's existing CIKZ in Kitchener. If approved by the CRTC, the transaction would make CICX a sister station to CICZ in nearby Midland.
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