Судбери қаласының радио стансасы – CIGM FM тарихы

Radio station in Sudbury, Ontario

CIGM FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts in Sudbury, Ontario. The station airs a CHR/Top 40 format at 93.5 MHz on the FM dial with the branding Hot 93.5. The station is owned and operated by Stingray Group.

The station first aired at 92.7 FM in 1965, with the call letters CKSO FM, airing a more extensive schedule of CBC Radio programming than its AM sister station CKSO. It adopted the CIGM calls and a country format in 1978, after CBC Radio was granted a license for its own O&O station, CBCS FM. As part of Cambrian's sale of CKSO TV to Mid Canada Communications in 1979/1980, the company's shareholders dissolved Cambrian and reincorporated themselves as a new company, called United Broadcasting, which retained ownership of the radio stations. On March 16, 1990, the CRTC approved Telemedia Communications Ontario Inc.'s application to amend the Promise of Performance for CIGM by changing the music format from Group III (Country and Country Oriented) to Group IV (40% Pop and Rock Softer; 60% Pop and Rock Harder). Two months later, on May 18, 1990, CKSO and CIGM swapped frequencies. CIGM moved to CKSO's 790 slot on the AM dial, and CKSO took on the new call letters CJRQ and CIGM's 92.7 FM frequency. After the 1990 swap, the CKSO call sign no longer existed in the Sudbury area until an unrelated Christian music radio station (as CKSO FM) began test transmissions in late 2002. In 2002, Telemedia was purchased by Standard Broadcasting. Shortly afterward, Standard sold CJRQ, CIGM and CJMX to Rogers Radio. In fall 2005, CIGM and sister station CKAT in North Bay underwent a format change, with country music cut back, although not entirely eliminated, in favour of increased news and sports programming. After the change, both stations used slogans such as "Today's Country", "News Leader" and "Sports Leader".

In July 2008, Rogers announced it would trade CIGM to Newcap Broadcasting in exchange for Halifax AM station CFDR. Both stations were the sole remaining AM stations in their respective markets, and in both cases the original owner already had the maximum permitted number of FM stations in the applicable market, whereas the acquirer only had a single FM station. Both companies applied to move the stations to FM as part of the trade. Newcap applied to convert CIGM to 93.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts. The applications were approved on November 24. The purchase made CIGM a sister station to Newcap's CHNO FM. After longtime CIGM morning man Scott Overton's employment with the station was discontinued by Rogers during the ownership transition, he wrote a letter to the Sudbury Star and Northern Life thanking the station's audience for its loyalty and indicating that the station's "long history as a country station will apparently end within the next few months." In early 2009, a number of staff at CIGM were laid off, including the news director. Notably, Newcap had applied for a new CHR/Top 40 station in the round of CRTC license hearings that resulted in the launch of CICS FM, a competing country music station owned by Larche Communications. In late July 2009, CIGM's website went offline with a message advising listeners to check out the EZ Rock website, the former sister station of CIGM.