Saskatchewan

CFWF-FM, Regina, Harvard Communications Ltd. (Hill)

1981
Armadale Communications Ltd., owned by the Sifton family, received a licence on March 16 for a new FM station in Regina. In the market, the Siftons also owned the Leader-Post newspaper and Saskatchewan's pioneer AM radio station, CKCK. They had owned CKCK-TV until 1977. The new station would broadcast with an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts, however the 98.9 MHz frequency that was applied for, went to Midwest Broadcasters (CJME-AM). Armadale was told to seek an alternate frequency. CKCK's FM station would offer an Easy Listening format. The station would produce live concerts (from classical to jazz) in collaboration with the University of Regina.

1982
CKIT-FM 104.9 signed on the air. It was co-located with CKCK-AM, in the Leader-Post building at 1922 Park Street. The transmitter and antenna were located at the CKCK-TV transmitter site just east of the city on Highway #1. CKIT-FM had an easy listening format.

1985-86
Con Stevenson was appointed general manager of CKCK and CKIT-FM.

1988
Tom Steve was now news director at CKIT/CKCK.

CKIT-CKCK general manager Con Stevenson was now running quality control for Armadale and moved back to Ontario. Gayle Robinson took over as general manager of the stations. She had been vice president of sales at CKTV (CKCK-TV).

1989
Still with an easy listening format, CKIT-FM began calling itself “K105 FM”.

1990
It was announced that Western World Communications would purchase CKIT-FM / CKCK-AM and CKRC-AM / CHZZ-FM from Michael Sifton's Armadale Communications of Markham, Ontario. Sifton said Armadale planned to retain CKOC-AM / CKLH-FM in Hamilton but would focus more strongly on newspaper publishing.


1991
On January 22, Clint C. Forster's Western World Communications Ltd. received CRTC approval to acquire Regina's CKIT-CKCK and Winnipeg's CHZZ-CKRC from Armadale Communications Ltd. Western World, based in Saskatoon, was licensee of CJWW Saskatoon, SK and CKST Langley, BC, and owned 100% of Balsa Broadcasting Corp., licensee of CHMG St. Albert, AB.

1992
Ottawa June 19,Western World Limited Partnership received approval to acquire CKCK and CKIT-FM Regina, and CKRC and CKLU-FM (formerly CHZZ-FM) Winnipeg from Western World Communications Corp.

1994
The CRTC denied CKIT-FM’s application to change format from Pop, Rock and Dance to Country. Competitor CHMX-FM had made the same request and its application to switch to a Country format was approved.

1995
On August 25, the CRTC approved the applications by Craig Broadcasting Systems Inc. for authority to acquire the assets of CKMM-FM Winnipeg and CKIT-FM Regina from the partners of Western World Communications Limited Partnership. The Commission also approved the application by Radio One Edmonton Corporation, licensee of CIRK-FM Edmonton, for authority to transfer effective control of the licensee through the transfer of all of the licensee's issued and outstanding shares from Forvest Broadcasting Corporation to Craig. Further, the Commission approved the application by Forvest, on behalf of itself, Western World Communications Corp. and Radio One Investments Inc., the partners of WWC, for authority to acquire the assets of CFQX-FM Selkirk from Craig.

Undated
At some point in the mid 1990s, CKIT-FM became known as Magic 104.9.

1996
CKIT-FM and CKCK had been broken up when Craig purchased CKIT last year. On April 12, 1996,Craig Broadcast Systems Inc. received permission to acquire CKCK from Western World Communications Limited Partnership, putting the two stations back under the same ownership..

1998
Craig Broadcasting Systems moved the studio and business operations of CKIT-FM and CKCK to the Harvard Communications Building at 2060 Halifax Street which had, for many years, housed Harvard's CHMX-FM and CKRM. It was announced that the General Manager of CHMX/CKRM would also manage the affairs of CKITand CKCK.

Undated
CKIT-FM “Hot 105”became CFWF-FM “The Wolf” (the “WF” for Wolf).

2001
CFWF was given approval to change the location of its transmitter site and the height of its antenna.

On November 30, HDL Investments Inc. received approval to purchase CFWF-FM from Craig Broadcasting Systems Inc. HDL had been operating CFWF-FM under the terms of a local management agreement. HDL was also allowed to purchase CKCK-AM from Craig. It would then be sold to Rawlco Communications (Sask.) Limited.

2002
On December 12 the CRTC approved an application by Harvard Broadcasting Inc. to effect an intracorporate reorganization. Harvard was the licensee of the radio programming undertakings CKRM, CFWF-FM and CHMX-FM Regina, and the radio network Roughriders. The proposed transaction would be implemented through the insertion of a new holding company, The Gabriel Holding Corp., into the existing corporate structure, between Famhill Holdings Limited and Famhill Investments Limited. As a result of this transaction, Famhill Holdings would own 100% of the Class E voting shares and the Class D non-voting shares, and the Paul Hill Family Trust would own 100% of the Class B non-voting participating shares in Gabriel Holding. This transaction would not change the control of Harvard, which remained with Frederick W. Hill, through the holding companies Harvard Developments Inc., Famhill Holdings and Famhill Investments.

2008
On August 25 the CRTC renewed CFWF-FM's licence to August 31, 2015.

                                               Written by Bill Dulmage - Updated January, 2010