CJGV-FM

CJGV-FM is a radio station in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Owned by Corus Entertainment, the station broadcasts an alternative leaning hot adult contemporary format branded as 991 Fresh Radio. The station broadcasts from 1440 Jack Blick Avenue in Polo Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba with sister stations CJOB and CJKR-FM.

CJGV-FM primarily competes with 102.3 KiSS FM.

History

The station signed on in early 2003 on 99.1 FM, which was the former home in Winnipeg of CKO for a short period in 1988 and 1989. Originally CJZZ-FM was broadcast from the Starbuck Communications Tower, but Canwest found this caused multipath to occur, so they applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to broadcast from a new transmitter that Rogers was putting up, and to decrease the EIRP from 100,000 to 63,700 watts. At this time the station was branded as 99.1 Cool FM which was branded after CanWest's CoolTV.

In September 2006, Corus Entertainment, already owner of Winnipeg's CJOB and CJKR-FM, announced it would buy CJZZ-FM and Kitchener, Ontario's CKBT-FM, from CanWest, subject to CRTC approval. The transaction was approved by the CRTC on July 6, 2007. Corus Entertainment officially took ownership of CJZZ on July 29, 2007.