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25-605: The festival grew out of a local jazz scene that centred on Vancouver Co-op Radio ( CFRO-FM ), a community radio station, in the early 1980s. The Pacific Jazz and Blues Association was formed in 1984 and hosted the Pacific Jazz and Blues Festival, which showcased regional jazz and blues artists in addition to some international jazz musicians. By 1986, the group had changed its name to the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, secured corporate sponsorship, and partnered with Expo 86 to produce

50-540: A new call sign, CKPK-FM . On October 23, 2008, the FM station signed on for testing. The transmitter on 600 AM was shut down on November 13, 2008. The last program was a 25-minute summary of the station's 84-year history on the AM band, followed by " Thanks for the Memory " by Bob Hope . Astral Media 's CISL had flipped from oldies to adult standards just days before to take advantage of

75-1031: A year to construct the station. CFRO-FM signed on the air on April 14, 1975 ; 49 years ago  ( April 14, 1975 ) . It was launched by volunteers mostly from local activist groups in Vancouver. On December 9, 2010, CFRO applied to exchange frequencies with CKPK-FM , which operated at 100.5 MHz. This application was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on September 9, 2011. The frequency swap occurred on September 10, 2012. Public affairs programmes and subjects in English include Redeye (news and analysis), Wake Up With Co-op , The Brown Bagger (lectures and interviews), Learning Coast Salish , Union Made (labour news). There are shows dealing with politics, women's rights, international affairs including Latin America,

100-599: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . CFRO-FM CFRO-FM (100.5 MHz ) is a non-commercial community radio station in Vancouver , British Columbia . It is a legally registered co-operative and is branded as Co-op Radio . It is owned by Vancouver Co-operative Radio, with studios and offices on Columbia Street off Hastings Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside . The station airs programmes in four categories: public affairs and news , music, multi-lingual and arts. The group producing each programme

125-523: Is located atop Mount Seymour . The station first signed on with an experimental license in 1923 as CFXC , and was renamed CJOR in 1926. It moved to its long-time home of 600 AM in 1930. CJOR operated as the Vancouver affiliate of the CBC 's Dominion Network from 1944 through the network's closure in 1962. It was later acquired by Jim Pattison after the death of its previous owner George Clarke Chandler . In November 2008, after over 80 years as an AM station,

150-598: Is mostly self-governing, within the co-operative frame. CFRO is a member of the National Campus and Community Radio Association . CFRO-FM is a Class C FM station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 2,800 watts (11,000 watts peak). The transmitter tower is atop Mount Seymour in the District of North Vancouver . CFRO-FM received its radio licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on May 7, 1974. It took nearly

175-455: Is the longest-running classical radio program on the air produced in Canada. Arts programming includes arts news, poetry, comedy, sound art, show tunes and other music, and story-telling. Nearly 100 different programme series air each week. Most of the late-night and week-end programmes are music and repeats, with public affairs and specialty talk programmes running mostly Monday through Friday in

200-614: The Community Radio Education Society (CRES) charity, which runs the Media Arts Committee (MAC). This foundation supports the audio community in Vancouver through grants and by lending artists and members the opportunity to borrow professional audio equipment. The Board of Directors and staff members are composed of nine individual volunteers. Their responsibilities include monitoring all station activities, hiring management and deliberating substantial decisions within

225-863: The Philippines, and Palestine, health, LGBTQ issues, parenting, youth, the environment, animal rights, neighbourhood news, senior citizens, disabled people and yoga. The syndicated American news show Democracy Now! is heard weekday mornings. Programmes air in ten foreign languages: Armenian , Azeri , Amharic , Persian , Korean , Nepali , Polish , Serbo-Croatian , South Slav , and Spanish . Music programmes specialize in numerous genres: aboriginal, accordion, African, alternative, bluegrass, blues, Caribbean, classical, Celtic, electronic, folk, fusion, gospel, hardcore, hip hop, house, India, jazz, Jewish, Latin, metal, old timey, punk, reggae, rock 'n' roll, roots, rumba, ska, soul, swing, tango, and world music. The weekly classical music program, "West Coast Classics,"

250-484: The community. The spatiality of the radio station has social implications as the building resides in the heart of the downtown eastside of Vancouver. CKPK-FM CKPK-FM (102.7 MHz ) is a commercial radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia . Owned by Pattison Media , it broadcasts a modern rock format. Its studios are on West 8th Avenue in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, while its transmitter

275-465: The company cited low adoption of HD Radio by local listeners as its reasoning for the cutbacks. On June 7, 2024, at midnight, almost two years after the flip to Now! Radio , Pattison dropped the format and returned to CKPK's previous Peak branding and modern rock format. The station's two remaining live personalities under Now! —Jaclyn Tatay and Brayden Mack—retained their morning and afternoon shows respectively. Program director Russell James credited

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300-499: The day and evening. The station is licensed by the Canadian government's broadcast regulating agency, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). There are occasional licence challenges by members of the public who object to some viewpoints and issues being broadcast. Founded in 1975, Co-operative Radio, CFRO, 100.5 FM is a non-profit community radio station and podcast recording studio. They operate under

325-610: The first annual Vancouver International Jazz Festival. The inaugural festival included performances by Miles Davis , Wynton Marsalis , Bobby McFerrin , Tito Puente , Tony Williams , Albert Collins , and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers . Many Vancouver jazz artists have also performed at the festival including Brad Turner , Jodi Proznick , Laila Biali , John Stetch , Cory Weeds , Vince Mai, Bill Coon , Oliver Gannon , Daniel Hersog , Steve Kaldestad , and Alan Matheson. The jazz festival has been held every year since, becoming

350-790: The largest such festival in British Columbia . Over 1,000 volunteers help in producing the event, which includes performances in parks, community centres, concert halls, clubs, public plazas, and in streets of various neighbourhoods. In total, the festival includes 400 individual performances, including 130 free concerts, and it draws 460,000 people each year. During the annual festival, the Sounds of Youth stage features big bands from local high schools including Semiahmoo Secondary School , St. Thomas Aquinas Regional Secondary School , St. Thomas More Collegiate , and Langley Fine Arts School . 2019 - 2020 2018 - 2019 This Vancouver -related article

375-677: The move. At 7:20 that same evening, at a live party at the Seasons in the Park restaurant, "100.5 The Peak" launched with U2 's " Elevation ." CKPK-FM received a new competitor on Canada Day , 2009 , when CHHR-FM began airing a AAA format. CHHR (now CHLG-FM ) would change formats to classic hits on June 20, 2014. On December 9, 2010, the Jim Pattison Group applied to exchange frequencies with non-commercial community radio station CFRO-FM , which then operated at 102.7 MHz. The application

400-546: The on-air brand The Bridge as Canada's first Contemporary Christian music station. The first song on "The Bridge" was " Awesome God " by Rich Mullins . On July 31, 1998, the station changed to an adult standards format as 600 AM with the slogan "Unforgettable Adult Favourites". On May 30, 2008, CKBD was given approval by the CRTC to move to 100.5 MHz on the FM dial. As part of its move to FM, CKBD planned to switch from adult standards to adult album alternative (AAA) with

425-543: The pending demolition of the Grosvenor Hotel on Howe Street, CJOR relocated from the hotel's basement to its present studios at 1401 West 8th Avenue. On September 2, 1988, at noon, CJOR dropped its talk radio format, flipping to classic rock under new call letters CHRX . The first song was Bob Seger 's " Old Time Rock & Roll ". (The former CJOR call sign currently belongs to a radio station in Osoyoos .) The station

450-422: The station parent CJOR Ltd. to renew the license. CJOR Ltd. was then owned by Chandler's widow Marie. The Board of Governors requested that a new buyer for CJOR be found. By the 1970s, the station shifted its focus away from music to talk radio , with such colourful and opinionated personalities as Jack Webster , Pat Burns , and eventually, former British Columbia premier Dave Barrett . On October 31, 1983, with

475-648: The station switched to FM in 2008, CISL moved to the Lulu Island location, making it the oldest broadcasting site in the Vancouver radio market in continuous operation.) In 1944, CJOR became the Vancouver network affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 's (CBC) Dominion Network . It increased power again in 1947, this time to 5,000 watts, using two 280-foot towers at a site in Richmond . That same year, Chandler established "CJOR Ltd." to run

500-527: The station was acquired by George Chandler . Under Canadian broadcast policy at the time, CFXC was shut down. A new license was issued to Chandler for CJOR . The station subsequently increased power to 50 watts in 1928 and shared time with CNRV , then moved its frequency to 1210 AM and the studios relocated to 840 Howe Street (with another boost in power to 500 watts) in 1930, and then to 600 in 1933. CJOR increased its transmission power to 1,000 watts in 1941, moving its transmitter site to Lulu Island . (After

525-407: The station, adult standards CKBD, moved to FM as adult album alternative (AAA) 100.5 The Peak . In 2012, the station moved once again to 102.7 FM. In 1923, the station was originally launched by the electrical store Hume and Rumble as experimental station CFXC . It broadcast on 440 metres with a power of 10 watts . It switched to the frequency of 1030 kilocycles in 1925. The following year,

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550-584: The station. In 1961, CJOR further increased power to 10,000 watts, using a three tower array . It became an independent station the following year after CBC ceased the Dominion Network's operations. Following George Chandler's death in 1964, the Jim Pattison Group acquired the station the following year. The Board of Broadcast Governors (predecessor of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission , or CRTC) had decided not to allow

575-690: The station—implicating a hot adult contemporary "social radio" format modelled after sister stations CKNO-FM in Edmonton, CHNW-FM in Winnipeg, and CKCE-FM in Calgary (which uses a similar positioning as Today Radio ) with a focus on topical discussions and listener interactions. The launch of "Now! Radio" officially occurred at 1:02 p.m. on July 25. The flip came nearly a month after Rogers' CKKS-FM had flipped from hot AC to modern rock on June 30. In January 2023, CKPK laid off The Peak 's on-air personalities;

600-627: Was approved on September 9, 2011. The swap took place almost a year later on September 10, 2012. During the summer of 2015, CKPK began evolving towards a more modern rock format. Eventually, CKPK began reporting on the Mediabase Canadian alternative rock panel. On July 22, 2022, it was announced that CKPK would drop its rock format on July 25, with its existing Peak format and programming moving to an HD Radio sub-channel and internet radio . Radio Insight reported that Pattison had bought several domain names branded as Now! Radio for

625-483: Was very popular during the late 1980s, but started experiencing declining ratings by the early 1990s. To remedy the ratings loss, in 1993, the station added sports talk shows to its programming. However, this did not boost the ratings. On January 7, 1994, at 6 p.m., after signing off with Led Zeppelin 's " Stairway to Heaven ", the station began stunting with the sound of ocean waves. On January 9, at noon, it switched formats and call signs again, becoming CKBD with

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