1962
Over the objections of five Vancouver radio stations at a hearing in Winnipeg, the Board of Broadcast Governors approved a licence in May for a new station in suburban Langley. Three weeks later, land clearing began for the transmitter site. In October, a vacated B.C. Telephone Co. manual operations building became the studio and offices.
1963
City & Country Radio Ltd. owner Joe Chesney opened CJJC 850 on January 19. It offered a country music format with 1,000 watts of power from a four-tower transmitter facility on 40 acres of land, four miles east of Langley. Eight people were on the original staff.
1973
Extremely wet weather caused construction delays of the new transmitter site for more than a year, final approval after testing was granted on January 26th. CJJC started broadcasting on its new 800 kHz frequency from six towers at the end of January. By this time, full-time staff had increased to 36.
1977
CJJC rehired 23 of 32 staff members who were given notice by owner Joe Chesney on New Year's Eve. At that time, the entire staff was given 30 days notice as the station was suffering financial problems.
City & Country Radio Ltd. was authorized to transfer all of the shares in CJJC Radio Ltd. to a company controlled by J.E. Chesney and Ernie Mykyte.
1978
Mykyte obtained 100% of CJJC with the purchase of the 50% held by Chesney.
1985
On June 26, the CRTC approved the sale of City & Country Radio Ltd. through the transfer of 90% of the common voting shares from CJJC Radio Ltd. to Saskatoon Telecable Ltd. (72%) and Sam Folstad (18%). L.M. McDonald held the remaining 10%.
CJJC became CJUP.
1987
Clint Forster and his family purchased Saskatoon Telecable – controlling shareholder of City & Country Radio Ltd.
Sam Folstead was CJUP's general manager.
UP Radio adopted a contemporary music sound.
Thomas McBride became vice president and general manager of CIOF.
CIOF adopted a harder rock sound and changed its call sign to CKXY.
1988
Dwaine Dietrick became vice president of operations for Monarch Broadcasting. He succeeded vice president and general manager Merv Phillips, who retired. Monarch held a controlling interest in CKXY.
1989
On July 7, CKST was granted an increase in power from 10,000 to 25,000 watts.
When the power increase took place, CKST began broadcasting in stereo, using the Motorola system.
1990
On November 9, CKST “Coast 800” adopted a modern rock format.
1992
On January 30, CKST’s parent, Western World Communications Corp. (what was Sakatoon Telecable) was authorized to acquire CIMA Vancouver from Monarch Broadcasting Ltd. The company was then given approval to make use of the existing assets and technical parameters employed by CIMA, in effect to change the facilities of CKST Langley by: increasing the transmitter power from 25,000 to 50,000 watts; change the transmitter site from 62nd Avenue and 248th Street in Aldergrove to 104th Street in Delta; change the frequency from 800 to 1040 kHz; and relocate the studios from 201 - 20627 Fraser Highway in Langley to 1199 Pender Street West in Vancouver.
CIMA 1040 Vancouver left the air on February 4.
On March 9, CKST 800 closed down and the station took over the facilities of CIMA 1040 (50,000 watts). CKST was now known as “Coast 1040”.
1993
CKST’s application to move to the FM band was denied. The station had proposed to operate on 94.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 38,000 watts.
On September 30 at midnight, modern rock “Coast 1040” signed off the air.
At 5:30 a.m., October 1, the station returned to the air as “Q104” (Quality 104) with a nostalgia format.
Brian Brenn, president and general manager of AM 1040 Quality Radio, announced that vice president Dave Abbott would take over the 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. time slot with an investigative public affairs show.
1994
Radio One Vancouver Corp. was sold to Ronald N. Dixon (75%) and Gary Mathiesen (25%).
1997
Dave Geddes, program director of the former CHQM, was now PD and morning show host at CKST. Terry Bell moved to afternoon Drive. Brian Breen left CKST for CKWX.
Announcer Andy Walsh left CKST.
CKST added over six hours of talk shows per week, dedicated to alternative medicine. One show - Healthy Living - with herbalist Croft Woodruff - had already been on the air for three years. CKST also added lounge music and ballroom dancing with "Martini Madness" and "Dal's Place" (hosted by Dal Richards) and "Big Band Ballroom". The station's executive producer, Hamidah Karim, said CKST has brought lounge music back to Vancouver radio. The station also offers "Broadway Stage Show" to its music-filled Saturday evening.
Jason Manning hosted Martini Madness on Saturday evenings.
2000
Ron Dixon was killed September 15 in a car accident in Mexico. He was about to close a deal to sell CKST.
On December 21, the purchase of CKST by Grand Slam Radio Inc. from Radio One Broadcasting Corp. was approved. Grand Slam was a new participant in the radio industry, and planned to program CKST with an all-sports format.
2001
Grand Slam took ownership of CKST on February 1.
On April 25, CKST changed to all-sports as "The Team – 110% Sports."
On May 7, Team 1040 joined CHUM Limited’s national all-sports Team Radio Network.
2003
On February 10, the sale of CKST by Grand Slam Radio Inc. to CHUM Limited was approved. CHUM already owned CFUN-AM and CHQM-FM in the market.
2005
Allan Waters, the founder of CHUM Limited, owner of CKST, passed away at the age of 84, on December 3rd.
2006
On July 12 it was announced that Bell Globemedia would pay C$1.7 billion for CHUM Ltd., in a deal that would see the company become part of the BCE-owned media conglomerate, subject to CRTC approval. On August 31, the two companies announced that BGM had been successful in its offer to acquire approximately 6.7 million common shares and approximately 19.2 million non-voting Class B shares of CHUM. The shares were to be placed in the hands of an independent trustee pursuant to a voting trust agreement approved by the CRTC.
On December 12th, it was announced that Bell Globemedia would henceforth be known as CTVglobemedia.
2007
A CRTC hearing on the CTVglobemedia application to acquire the assets of CHUM Limited was held on April 30th 2007. On June 8 the CRTC approved the acquisition of CHUM Ltd. by CTVglobemedia, on condition that CTV sell off its five City-TV stations, CITY-TV Toronto, CHMI-TV Portage La Prairie/Winnipeg, CKEM-TV Edmonton, CKAL-TV Calgary and CKVU-TV Vancouver. Rogers Communications announced on June 25th that a deal had been reached for them to buy these stations from CTV, subject to CRTC approval. Among the CHUM assets acquired by CTVglobemedia in the deal were seven television stations, 21 specialty channels and some 33 radio stations, including CKST-AM.
2009
In October, CFUN was now fully operational from its new transmitter site in Delta. The old site would be kept operational until December to allow CFUN to remain on the air while engineers tune co-owned CKST, now operating at half power from the new antenna site. The old CKST towers, immediately to the north of the new ones, were toppled this month. Engineers hoped to have CKST fully operational at its new location by the end of October. Both CFUN and CKST would broadcast with 50,000 watts from the new state-of-the-art seven tower site. CFUN would be directional from two towers with the same pattern day and night. CKST would be directional from 5 towers with different day and night patterns.
Written by Gord Lansdell, Bill Dulmage - Updated November, 2009
