CKTY-FM

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CKTY-FM
Broadcast area Truro
Frequency 99.5 MHz (FM)
BrandingCat Country 99.5
Programming
Format Country
Ownership
Owner Maritime Broadcasting System
CKTO-FM
History
First air date
September 10, 1947 as CKCL
Former frequencies
1400 kHz (AM) (1947–1956)
600 kHz (1956–2001)
Call sign meaning
"Cat Country"
Technical information
Class B
ERP 16,750 watts
HAAT 226 meters (741 ft)
Links
Website catcountry995.com

CKTY-FM (99.5 MHz) is a radio station in Truro, Nova Scotia. Owned by the Maritime Broadcasting System, it broadcasts a country format branded as Cat Country 99.5.

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History

The station has been on the air since September 10, 1947. It originally broadcast at 1400 AM as CKCL then to 600 in 1956, and received CRTC approval to move to 99.5 FM in 2001 after shutting down the AM 600 frequency. [1]

CKTY was formerly the callsign of a now-defunct AM radio station in Sarnia, Ontario, which moved to the FM dial and is now CHKS-FM. CKCL was also a former callsign of a radio station in Toronto, Ontario in the 1920s. [2]

On July 5, 2013, CKTY and sister station CKTO-FM were acquired by Bell Media as part of their acquisition of Astral Media. On May 28, 2019, the station was renamed Pure Country 99.5 as part of a nationwide rebranding of all Bell Media country stations. [3]

On February 8, 2024, Bell announced that it would sell five of its stations in Atlantic Canada to Maritime Broadcasting System, as part of a corporate restructuring. [4] The CRTC approved the sale on December 20, 2024, [5] and the station relaunched its heritage Cat Country branding on April 8, 2025. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Decision CRTC 2001-160". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2 March 2001. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  2. ↑ "Stations on the air in 1925". Canadian communications foundation. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  3. ↑ "Pure Country: Nationwide rebrand gives new name to Big Dog 92.7". CTV News Regina. 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  4. ↑ Hudes, Sammy (8 February 2024). "'Not a viable business anymore': Bell Media selling 45 radio stations amid layoffs". Toronto Star . The Canadian Press . Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  5. ↑ Government of Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) (2024-12-20). "CKTO-FM and CKTY-FM Truro, CKBC-FM Bathurst, CJCJ-FM Woodstock, and CIKX-FM Grand Falls and its transmitter CIKX-FM-1 Plaster Rock - Change in ownership and effective control". crtc.gc.ca. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  6. ↑ "The Weekly Briefing". Broadcast Dialogue. 2025-04-17. Retrieved 2025-04-24.

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