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CIMX-FM (88.7 FM, "89X") is a radio station in Windsor, Ontario. Owned by Bell Media, it broadcasts a modern rock format. Its studios and offices are located on Ouellette Avenue in Windsor, while its transmitter is located off Smith Industrial Drive in Amherstburg.
CIMX has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 78,200 watts, with a maximum of 100,000 watts; it primarily serves the Detroit–Windsor metropolitan area, and surrounding areas of Ontario (Essex County and Chatham-Kent), Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Ohio (Toledo).
What is now CIMX first signed on the air on July 10, 1967, as CKWW-FM. It was co-owned with CKWW but was separately programmed. The stations shared studios and offices at 1150 Ouellette Avenue.
CKWW-FM had an MOR/easy listening format. The station added evening progressive rock programming in the fall of 1970.
The following April, the station changed its call sign to CJOM-FM and the progressive format went full-time. Om FM (pronounced "Ohm FM") distinguished itself from its Detroit competitors WRIF, WWWW and WABX by emphasizing Canadian talent.
By 1976, the album rock sounds of "Om FM" had faded away and the station was again programming MOR and easy listening music.
In 1982, CJOM and CKWW were acquired by Geoff Stirling's company, Stirling Communications International, which also owned CKGM in Montreal, Quebec and CHOZ-FM in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. CJOM made an abrupt switch to a CHR/Top 40 format. In the evening hours, from 1983 until 1985, DJ Karen Evans played more alternative music with an introduction of British new wave music to the market. In the late 1980s, the station went by the moniker "Laser Rock," a reference to becoming one of the first radio stations in the Detroit area to program music solely from compact discs.
CJOM ran afoul of the CRTC in the summer of 1983 for its format change to CHR/Top 40. Then as now, all radio station format changes in Canada must be approved by the CRTC. CJOM had been approved for a "contemporary MOR" (what is now considered to be an adult contemporary) format, but analyses of the station's programming in May 1983 showed that almost all of the music being played was rock-oriented, that the station was playing 78% "hit" music rather than the allowed <50%, and that the station was not meeting its licence commitments for "foreground", "mosaic", spoken word, or news programming.
CIMX-FM
CIMX-FM (88.7 FM, "89X") is a radio station in Windsor, Ontario. Owned by Bell Media, it broadcasts a modern rock format. Its studios and offices are located on Ouellette Avenue in Windsor, while its transmitter is located off Smith Industrial Drive in Amherstburg.
CIMX has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 78,200 watts, with a maximum of 100,000 watts; it primarily serves the Detroit–Windsor metropolitan area, and surrounding areas of Ontario (Essex County and Chatham-Kent), Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Ohio (Toledo).
What is now CIMX first signed on the air on July 10, 1967, as CKWW-FM. It was co-owned with CKWW but was separately programmed. The stations shared studios and offices at 1150 Ouellette Avenue.
CKWW-FM had an MOR/easy listening format. The station added evening progressive rock programming in the fall of 1970.
The following April, the station changed its call sign to CJOM-FM and the progressive format went full-time. Om FM (pronounced "Ohm FM") distinguished itself from its Detroit competitors WRIF, WWWW and WABX by emphasizing Canadian talent.
By 1976, the album rock sounds of "Om FM" had faded away and the station was again programming MOR and easy listening music.
In 1982, CJOM and CKWW were acquired by Geoff Stirling's company, Stirling Communications International, which also owned CKGM in Montreal, Quebec and CHOZ-FM in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. CJOM made an abrupt switch to a CHR/Top 40 format. In the evening hours, from 1983 until 1985, DJ Karen Evans played more alternative music with an introduction of British new wave music to the market. In the late 1980s, the station went by the moniker "Laser Rock," a reference to becoming one of the first radio stations in the Detroit area to program music solely from compact discs.
CJOM ran afoul of the CRTC in the summer of 1983 for its format change to CHR/Top 40. Then as now, all radio station format changes in Canada must be approved by the CRTC. CJOM had been approved for a "contemporary MOR" (what is now considered to be an adult contemporary) format, but analyses of the station's programming in May 1983 showed that almost all of the music being played was rock-oriented, that the station was playing 78% "hit" music rather than the allowed <50%, and that the station was not meeting its licence commitments for "foreground", "mosaic", spoken word, or news programming.