CHMJ
City of license	Vancouver, BC
Broadcast area	Greater Vancouver
Branding	AM730
Slogan	"Continuous drive-time traffic and the best of talk"
First air date	1955
Frequency	730 kHz (AM)
Format	traffic/talk
ERP	50 kW
Former callsigns	CKLG (1955-2001) CJNW (2001-2002)
Owner	Corus Entertainment
Webcast	Listen live
Website	AM730

CHMJ (identified on air as AM730) is a Canadian radio station in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia currently owned by Corus Entertainment. It broadcasts at 730 kilohertz on the AM band with an effective radiated power of 50,000 watts from a transmitter in Delta. Studios are located in the TD Tower in downtown Vancouver. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a city in south-western British Columbia, Canada. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 36 6 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of total)  Ranked 5th 944,735 km² 925,186 km² 19,549 km... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... FreQuency is a music video game developed by Harmonix and published by SCEI. It was released in November 2001. ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using Amplitude Modulation. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ... Kwai Lo is Chinese slang for foreigner or ghost person. ... Corus Entertainment Inc. ... The word webcast is derived from web and broadcast. Its use has varied since the early-mid 1990s as the nature of the medium came into public use. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Motto: Building a sustainable region Area: 2,878. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 36 6 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of total)  Ranked 5th 944,735 km² 925,186 km² 19,549 km... Corus Entertainment Inc. ... AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using Amplitude Modulation. ... In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ... Delta is a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada. ... TD Tower is located at 700 West Georgia Street in Vancouver. ...

Format

In November of 2006, CHMJ adopted an all-day, every day "all traffic" format, becoming the first station in North America to do so. The station has dropped rebroadcasts of Corus Network talk shows, terminated its programming of university sports and limited its Seattle Seahawks coverage to the internet during storm or snow coverage. It is likely the station will terminate all play-by-play coverage at the conclusion of the respective sports seasons.^{[citation needed]} Veteran Vancouver radio personalities like Red Robinson have lamented the station's fall from a once mighty local station to its current purpose as a training ground for radio students who have previously had no radio experience. The station is often a source of ridicule for its revolving door of on-air personalities who have a penchant for flubbing lines.

History

In 1955, Vancouver AM radio station CKLG, owned by Lions Gate Broadcasting Ltd., began transmitting at 1070 kHz on the AM band with a 1,000 watt transmitter. Originally, studios and transmitter were both located in North Vancouver. The radio station was controlled by the Gordon Gibson family, better known in logging circles (Gordon Gibson, Sr, "The Bull of the Woods." In 1958, the station changed frequencies from 1070 kHz to 730 kHz and increased power to 10,000 watts. The transmitter site was moved at this time from North Vancouver to Delta. The station was sold to Moffat Broadcasting Ltd. in 1961, and in 1964 launched an FM sister station, the original CKLG-FM (now CFOX-FM), at 99.3 MHz. Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, CKLG (also known as "LG73") played a variety of contemporary music, at times ranking as one of the most popular radio stations in the Vancouver market. In 1975, the station once again increased its transmitted power, raising it to the current 50,000 watts. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... 99. ... A megahertz (MHz) is one million (106) hertz, a measure of frequency. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

The station's popularity declined in the 1980s and 1990s, as many music stations moved from AM to FM broadcasting, and in 1992 the Corus Radio Company (now Corus Entertainment) purchased Moffat's Vancouver radio properties. On February 1, 2001, Corus changed the station's call letters to CJNW (the CKLG call sign was later transferred to Rogers Communications' CKLG-FM), adopting a 24-hour news format referred to on-air as "NW2, all news radio, powered by CKNW". The hope was to leverage the Vancouver market dominance of CKNW, in light of the success of Rogers' all-news station News 1130. CJNW's all-news format lasted for approximately 14 months, but was abandoned in light of lower than expected ratings. FM broadcasting is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation (FM) to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rogers Communications Inc. ... CKLG is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at FM 96. ... All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of news. ... CKNW is the leading talk radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... CKWX News1130 is a 24-hour all-news station broadcsating to residents of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, British Columbia. ...

MOJO Sports Radio

After several months of broadcasting a modern rock format, and over a month of down time for a transmitter site upgrade, in 2002 the station changed call letters once again to the current CHMJ, branded as "MOJO 730, Talk Radio for Guys". When that format failed to attract a large enough audience, the station changed to an all-sports format in early 2004, identified as "MOJO Sports Radio, AM 730". It was the radio home of the Vancouver Giants, Vancouver Whitecaps, and various other local sports events including UBC Thunderbirds and SFU Clansmen football and basketball games. It also carried Seattle Seahawks games from Seattle's 710 KIRO. It was an ESPN Radio affiliate and also shared some sports content with CKNW. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Modern rock or Nu-breed is term commonly used to describe a rock music format found on American commercial radio. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of sporting events. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Vancouver Giants are an ice hockey team playing in the Western Hockey League, based at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The Whitecaps (officially Whitecaps F.C.) are a Canadian professional soccer team, which currently plays in the USL First Division (formerly the A-League) of the United Soccer Leagues (USL), the largest system of national soccer leagues in North America. ... The UBC Thunderbirds are the athletic teams that represent the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... The Simon Fraser Clan are the athletic teams that represent Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. ... City Seattle, Washington Team colors Pacific Blue, Navy Blue, Neon Green, White Head Coach Mike Holmgren Owner Paul Allen General manager Tim Ruskell Mascot Blitz, and Taima the augur hawk League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1976–present) American Football Conference (1977-2001) AFC West (1977-2001) National Football Conference... KIRO is a radio station based in Seattle, Washington, broadcasting on 710 kHz in the AM radio spectrum. ... ESPN Radio is a national sports radio network based in the United States. ... CKNW is the leading talk radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia. ...

Its main talk personalities were morning host John McKeachie and afternoon host Bob "The Moj" Marjanovich, both former hosts at CKST "The TEAM 1040", a Vancouver all-sports station owned by CHUM Limited. MOJO competed heavily with The TEAM for ratings, personnel, and broadcast contracts, but continued to rank at the bottom of the BBM ratings, placing 17th of 17 stations surveyed in April 2006 with a 0.9 percent market share. CKST is a radio station located in Vancouver, BC, Canada currently owned by CHUM Limited. ... CHUM Limited is a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The Bureau of Broadcast Measurement, or BBM, is an audience measurement organization for Canadian television and radio broadcasting. ...

On 30 May 2006, CHMJ terminated its all-sports format, switching to a continuous series of promotional content. The station re-launched on 5 June 2006 with a new format described as "continuous drive-time traffic and the best of talk". Programming consisted of continuous traffic reports during the morning and afternoon peak periods and rebroadcasts of talk radio programming from CKNW, Corus' news/talk station in Vancouver. CHMJ also continued to provide play-by-play coverage of Vancouver Giants WHL hockey, Vancouver Whitecaps A-League Soccer, and Seattle Seahawks NFL football. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... CKNW is the leading talk radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The Vancouver Giants are an ice hockey team playing in the Western Hockey League, based at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The Whitecaps (officially Whitecaps F.C.) are a Canadian professional soccer team, which currently plays in the USL First Division (formerly the A-League) of the United Soccer Leagues (USL), the largest system of national soccer leagues in North America. ... City Seattle, Washington Team colors Pacific Blue, Navy Blue, Neon Green, White Head Coach Mike Holmgren Owner Paul Allen General manager Tim Ruskell Mascot Blitz, and Taima the augur hawk League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1976–present) American Football Conference (1977-2001) AFC West (1977-2001) National Football Conference...

References

The Globe and Mail is a large English language national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada, and printed in seven cities across Canada. ... The Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper published in British Columbia since 1912 by the Pacific Newspaper Group Inc, a CanWest Global Communications Company. ... The Province is a daily newspaper published in British Columbia by the Pacific Newspaper Group Inc, a CanWest Global Communications Company. ... The Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper published in British Columbia since 1912 by the Pacific Newspaper Group Inc, a CanWest Global Communications Company. ... The Tyee is a Canadian online web magazine, which focuses on coverage of news and media issues in British Columbia. ... The Vancouver Courier is a Canadian semiweekly local newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, it is Canadas largest distribution community newspaper. ...

See also

• CFMJ, a radio station in Toronto that also used the MOJO format

CFMJ is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 640 on the AM dial in Toronto, Ontario. ...

External links

• AM730 website
• Vancouver radio legend Red Robinson rails against media consolodation, Corus, AM 730's lack of professional sound and the decline of radio
• Bureau of Broadcast Measurement ratings
• LG73 - Internet radio station commemorating CKLG
• The Ultimate LG73 Tribute! (fan site)