CHSJ-FM

CHSJ-FM

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Saint John, New Brunswick
Frequency	94.1 MHz (FM)
Branding	Country 94
Programming
Format	country music
Ownership
Owner	Acadia Broadcasting
Sister stations	CHWV-FM
History
First air date	1928 as CFBO
Call sign meaning	C H Saint John
Links
Website	Country 94

For the television station formerly known as CHSJ-TV, see CBAT-TV.

CHSJ-FM is a radio station at 94.1 MHz on the FM dial in Saint John, New Brunswick. The station plays country music under the Country 94 branding. CHSJ is owned by Acadia Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Ocean Capital Investments.

History

Originally known as CFBO, CHSJ's first broadcast was at AM 890 in 1928, under the ownership of C.A. Munro Limited. The current call letters were adopted in 1934 when four Saint John newspaper publishing shareholders — Howard P. Robinson, J.D. McKenna, T. F. Drummie and L. W. Bewick — saw great potential for little CFBO and purchased it from Mr. C.A. Monro. After the sale CHSJ was owned by the Saint John Publishing Company.

From 1934 to 1936 the station was an affiliate of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission. In 1936 CHSJ affiliated with the Canadian Broadcasting Company and later with the CBC Trans-Canada Network until 1964, when CBD went on the air.

In 1944, Kenneth C. Irving purchased Saint John Publishing from its principal shareholder Howard P. Robinson. Along with the city's two newspapers he acquired the CHSJ station as part of the group. Later that year the company's name was changed to the New Brunswick Publishing Company. One of its operations was New Brunswick Broadcasting, responsible for radio station CHSJ.

CHSJ changed its AM frequency several times: to 1210 in 1933, to 1120 in 1934, to 1150 in 1945, and to 700 in 1985. In 1998 CHSJ moved to the FM dial at its current frequency 94.1 MHz.

According to the Telegraph Journal newspaper in New Brunswick, CTV Atlantic, in partnership with A Atlantic, Rogers TV, and News 88.9, will broadcast the 73rd Annual Empty Stocking Fund broadcast live from Saint John on November 21, 2009. This marks a historic departure from the ancestral radio broadcast home of CHSJ-FM and the original CHSJ(CBAT-TV) Television/MITV-Global Maritimes(CIHF-TV) broadcast pairing that lasted to 2008, and now gives CTV Atlantic the broadcast rights to BOTH major Atlantic Canadian televised and radio-casted Christmas fundraising efforts (the other being CTV Atlantic's own Christmas Daddies telethon(started in 1965 on CJCH-FM Radio and CJCH-TV Television)). http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/city/article/842128

External links

• Country 94
• CHSJ history at Canadian Communications Foundation
• CHSJ-FM in the REC Canadian station database