CJKX-FM

CJKX-FM is a Canadian radio station. Although its official city of licence is Ajax, Ontario, the station operates from studios in Oshawa, Ontario with co-owned stations CKDO and CKGE-FM. Airing at 95.9 FM, the station broadcasts a country music format branded as KX96.

CJKX-FM

City	Ajax, Ontario
Broadcast area	Greater Toronto Area
Branding	KX96
Slogan	New Country
Frequency	95.9 MHz (HD Radio)
First air date	1967
Format	Analog/HD1: New Country HD2: Smooth jazz "The Wave" HD3: CKDO simulcast
ERP	19.96 kW
Former call signs	CHOO (1967-1994)
Former frequencies	1390 kHz (AM) (1967-1994)
Owner	Durham Radio Inc.
Sister stations	CHKX-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.kx96.fm

The station was launched in 1967 as AM 1390 CHOO. The station was acquired in 1973 by Community Communications, and in 1977 by Golden West Broadcasting. In 1994, the station was acquired by its current owner, Durham Radio, and moved to its current FM frequency.[1]

In 1999, the station added a 5 kW rebroadcaster (CJKX-FM-1) in Sunderland, operating on 89.9 FM to cover the area that receives interference from first-adjacent CFJB-FM.[2]

In 2006, CJKX was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to add a rebroadcaster (CJKX-FM-2) in downtown Toronto, to operate on 95.9 FM, the same frequency as the main station.[3] That rebroadcaster's transmitter is located atop the First Canadian Place.

Note: The CHOO callsign was formerly used at a station, (now defunct) in Tofino, British Columbia from 2000–2002. The current CHOO callsign is now currently being used at a radio station Drumheller, Alberta, known today as CHOO-FM. Both of these stations that used the CHOO callsign have no relation to CJKX-FM.

On August 1, 2016, the CRTC denied Durham Radio Inc. (Durham) application to change the authorized contours of CJKX-FM-2 Toronto, Ontario, a rebroadcasting transmitter of the English-language commercial radio station CJKX-FM Ajax. The applicant proposed to change the transmitter's class from A to B1 and increase the average effective radiated power (ERP) from 122 to 194 watts (maximum ERP from 220 to 800 watts).[4]