GATINEAU – Country music fans in Toronto will have a clearer new choice later this year.
On Wednesday, the CRTC approved an application by Durham Radio to build a new repeater transmitter in Toronto for 95.9 CJKX-FM Ajax (New Country).
The transmitter will be located in downtown Toronto and operate at 85 watts. Durham Radio told the Commission that many of its listeners, from Ajax, Oshawa, east Toronto and York Region, commute to downtown Toronto for work or other reasons and are unable to receive a good quality signal from CJKX-FM in downtown Toronto because of interference caused by the concentration of Toronto FM radio stations transmitting from the CN Tower and First Canadian Place.
Toronto doesn’t have its own country station but that demo is served by Hamilton’s CING FM (Corus).
Durham told the Commission the new transmitter will earn it about $100,000 more per year.
