Talk:CIKX-FM

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I have no intention of contributing to the Encyclopedia per se since I don't pretend to have the necessary time and resources to do the proper research. However, I was once employed by CIKX-FM, better known as K 93. I would like to clear up some misconceptions in the article:

a) You say: CIKX-FM is a Canadian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian  radio station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_station   broadcasting in Grand Falls, New Brunswick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Falls%2C_New_Brunswick   at 93.5 MHz. CIKX was originally a repeater of CJCJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJCJ-FM  in Woodstock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock%2C_New_Brunswick   until the early 2000s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s   when the former opened its studios.

K 93 was NEVER a repeater of CJCJ in Woodstock. For most of the time over its first two years, at least between 10 a.m. and midnight, the programming on CIKX-FM was entirely different from that of CJCJ. Currently, the programming is entirely different from 6 a.m. to midnight. It may or may not be the same between midnight and 6 a.m.

During the first two years or so, the two stations shared a same morning show ("The Big Morning Show"). During this time, everything heard on both stations was exactly the same EXCEPT for the advertising and the news. The advertising was put together and timed in such a way as to broadcast Woodstock area advertising only on CJCJ while Grand Falls area advertising was broadcast only on CIKX-FM. Similarly, the newsmen in Woodstock and Grand Falls would agree on how long to read the local news, after which the newsman at CJCJ would be simulcast on both stations for provincial, national and international news. All the music and other talk was the same on both stations.

I was there for about a year and a half. It was some time after I left that the Grand Falls studio was fully equipped and a separate morning show was produced at CIKX-FM. It's been that way ever since.

Meanwhile, programming from 10 a.m. to midnight, while different from CJCJ, was nevertheless produced there.

b) You say:

First air date

Late 1990s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s /Early 2000s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s  as a repeater (exact date not yet known)

The first official broadcast day for CIKX-FM (K 93) was April 19, 1999. I remember it well because it also happens to be my wife's birthday.

c) There is one last little tidbit you may find interesting. When CIKX-FM went on the air, one of the areas it was meant to serve was Plaster Rock, NB. However, the signal did not come in well in that area. At the time, CJCJ had two repeater stations, one in Plaster Rock and the other in Perth-Andover, NB. It was decided to close the one in Perth-Andover completely and change the one in Plaster Rock to a repeater for CIKX-FM. At the time, it broadcast at a frequency of 990 kHz on the AM dial. I don't know if that's still the case.