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CKGB-FM
CKGB-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 99.3 FM in Timmins, Ontario. The station uses the on-air brand KiSS 99.3 and is owned by Rogers Communications.
History.
The station was launched in late 1933 by young Northern Ontario media entrepreneur Roy Thomson, who would later become the owner of "The Times" of London. Thomson acquired the "Timmins Daily Press" in 1934, and the newspaper and radio station shared a building and ownership
for many years. In the 1940s and 1950s, CKGB was operating on 94.5 FM as "CKRT-FM", until it was shut down. The station broadcast on AM from its inception, periodically changing frequencies until its last AM home at 750 in 1984, and adopting a country music format in 1990. Coincidentally, Thompson hired Jack Kent Cooke to be a sales rep in the hungry 1930s. He went on to own the Los Angeles Kings hockey franchise. Also in 1984, CKGB was authorized to drop its CBC