1967
William (Bill) Evanov started in Radio as a salesman for a new radio station in Toronto, CHIN-FM, and quickly rose to Sales Manager. He stayed with the station for 13 years, during which time he learned all facets of the business, which gave him ambitions for the future.

1980
In 1980 he moved over to become Station Manager at CING-FM in Burlington ON, but he soon realized that running the station wasn't enough – he had the urge to own one.

1983
With his friend Patrick Hurley, and while still manager of CING-FM, Bill bought his first radio station, CKMW-AM Brampton, on the outskirts of Toronto, from Mutual Broadcasting Canada. Mutual was headed by Michel Arpin, who years later would become Vice-President for Broadcasting for the CRTC. The station had been plagued with a poor frequency (790) for years, a problem that took almost 7 years to resolve. In the meantime the station would change completely, with a new sound and direction.

1991
Bill Evanov and two colleagues from CIAO, Angelo Cremisio and John Dukelow, who had left CING-FM in 1986-87 but remained major shareholders, went back to Burlington to help the station launch a new dance music format targeted to an under-35 audience. They continued to manage the station for some time.

1994
By now, the Brampton station, with call letters changed to CIAO and on 530 on the AM dial, was a multilingual station both in program producers and on-air personnel, serving the local community.

Bill Evanov's next move was the purchase from Dufferin Communications of CIDC-FM at 103.5 in Orangeville ON, which could be heard in Toronto, but was very much an Orangeville area station as that was their avowed prime target audience. The station would eventually become the flagship station for the Evanov group.

2001
With his first two stations comfortably established and returning a respectable profit, Bill decided to go back into the broadcasting market, and his next venture was the purchase in the spring of the Newmarket station CKDX –FM 88.5 from Anthony Panza. The station was branded as The Jewel, and adopted the "Today's New Easy Listening" format that the Evanov Radio Group had developed.

2004
On November 26th, the CRTC licensed CMKW Ltd, an Evanov-controlled company, to operate a new FM radio station in Halifax, N.S., to operate on 103.5 MHz with a Youth Contemporary format.

2005
On June 23rd, Evanov's CKMW Radio Ltd. received approval from the CRTC to launch a new CM station in Ottawa, to operate on 98.5 MHz and provide a musical format targeted to older listeners.

2006
On March 20th, Ottawa Media Ltd., an Evanov company, launched CJWL-FM in Ottawa on 98.5 MHz. The new station was branded as "The Jewel".

On April 6th, after close scrutiny of the application, given the proposed program format, the CRTC granted its approval for the Evanov Group and the Rainbow Media Group Inc. to establish an FM station in Toronto to serve the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgendered community in Toronto and area. It would have the call letters CIRR-FM, and would broadcast on 103.9 MHz.

On August 14th the Evanov group put CKHZ-FM Halifax on the air. The station was branded as "Z103 – The Beat of Halifax". The station was patterned after sister station CIDC-FM (also Z103.5) in the Orangeville/Toronto market.

2007
On April 16, at 6:00 am CIRR-FM ("103.9 Proud FM") was launched. It claimed to be "the only commercial terrestrial radio station whose mandate is to serve the LGBT population".

On June 27th, Evanov's Ottawa Media Ltd. was advised that it had been successful in its application to operate a new FM radio station in Hawkesbury, Ontario, on 107.7 MHz.

2008
On April 14th, Evanov Radio Group's Ottawa Media subsidiary launched CKHK-FM 107.7 in Hawkesbury, Ontario, with an Easy Listening format.

On August 21st, Evanov Communications received approval from the Commission to launch a new FM radio station in Winnipeg. However, the approval was conditional on Evanov being able to propose an alternative frequency to 104.7 MHz, within 90 days. Subsequently, the CRTC approved Evanov's proposal to locate the new station, to be identified as CFJL-FM (The Jewel) at 106.1 on the FM dial. Evanov was required to have the new station on the air within 24 months.

2009
In September, the CRTC approved the change of effective control of Telephone City Broadcast Limited from the Estate of R.D. Buchanan to the Evanov Radio Group (ERG), through the transfer of all issued and outstanding shares of Telephone City to Evanov Communications Inc. Telephone City was the licensee of CKPC-AM and CKPC-FM in Brantford ON.

On October 7th, HFX Broadcasting, another division of ERG, received CRTC approval to operate a second FM radio station in Halifax, NS. HFX had been competing with two other applicants for the new Halifax licence, and the Commission stated that it felt that HFX's proposed Adult Contemporary format would best meet the needs of the Halifax radio market by "addressing an underserved demographic in the market."

2010
The new station began testing its signal in late August.

Rob Johnson left Z103.5 for the soon to launch Live 105 in Halifax.

CKHY-FM "Live 105" signed on the air at 1:05 p.m. on October 1, kicking things off with a countdown of the Top 105 Modern Rock songs.

Regular programming got underway October 4 at 5:30 a.m. with The Morning Mob with Cub Carson and Floyd, Mid Day Meltdown with Christina (Fitzgerald), The Scotty Mars Show, and After Dark with AJ (Reynolds).

On December 1, the CRTC approved the application by HFX Broadcasting Inc. relating to CKHY-FM Halifax in order to change the authorized contours of its transmitter by increasing the average effective radiated power from 32,000 to 100,000 watts (maximum ERP from 45,000 to 100,000 watts), by changing the antenna radiation pattern from directional to non-directional, by decreasing the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 224.5 to 185.1 meters, and by changing the antenna site. The Commission noted that CKHY-FM's existing antenna site was owned by the CBC, and that the licensee wished to move the antenna to a site owned by CTVglobemedia Inc., from which it operated sister station CKHZ-FM.

2011
On October 24th, the CRTC approved an application by Dufferin Communications Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Evanov Communications) for authority to acquire from Newcap Inc. the assets of the English-language commercial radio stations CHNK-FM and CKJS Winnipeg, and for new broadcasting licences to continue the operation of these stations.

Updated by Pip Wedge – October, 2011

Evanov Radio Group Inc. Radio Stations
(click on call letters for individual station histories and details of rebroadcasters)