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CITI-FM

CITI-FM (92.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station broadcasting in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Owned by Rogers Radio, a division of Rogers Sports & Media, the station broadcasts a mainstream rock format branded as 92.1 CITI. Its studios are located on Osborne Street south of Downtown Winnipeg, while its transmitter is located at Duff Roblin Provincial Park just south of Winnipeg.

The station first signed on in 1962 as CKY-FM simulcasting AM 580 CKY broadcasting at 360,000 watts, making it the most powerful FM radio station in North America. The station adopted its current call sign, CITI-FM, on April 1, 1978, The first song played on CITI was Deep Purple's "Highway Star".

In the early 1990s, the station was acquired by Rogers Radio, who converted CITI's sister A.M. station CKY to the FM band in 2004, and retained the CKY call sign on that station. That station now plays a hot AC format.

CKY-FM was originally North America's most powerful commercial FM station. (That distinction currently belongs to WBCT in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Canada's most powerful FM station is CJKR-FM, also in Winnipeg.) In 2003 CITI-FM was granted a decrease in effective radiated power from 210,000 to 100,000 watts. Its transmitter was then relocated 20 kilometers north of its former site.

Some notable announcers through the years at CITI are: Ross Porter (Murray), Brother Jake Edwards, Terry Klassen, Terry Dimonte, Andy Frost, Howard Mandshein, Craig Thulner, Tim "Trucker" Bradley, Gordo Fry, Lamont Hollywood, Shadoe Davis, Tom McGouran, Alix Michaels, Larry Updike, Joe Aiello, Harry Callaghan, Brian Cook, Duncan MacPhail and Cosmo.

On May 17, 2012, the station rebranded itself as "World Class Rock" and began playing more 1980s, ’90s and 2000s-based rock.

On September 13, 2012, CITI announced that longtime morning show hosts Tom McGouran and Joe Aiello had been let go, and would be replaced with Dave Wheeler, Phil Aubrey and Rena Jae, formerly of rival station CJKR-FM. The latter three, having comprised the morning show of Wheeler In The Morning with Philly and Rena since September 2009, were unable to come to terms on a new contract with Corus Radio.

On January 12, 2015, the station's morning show Wheeler in the Morning began to be simulcast by sister Citytv station CHMI-DT, replacing the cancelled Winnipeg version of Breakfast Television. The former Breakfast Television hosts Jenna Khan and Drew Kozub presented news and entertainment segments that were shown on television when CITI played music.

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