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CKLC-FM
CKLC-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 98.9 FM in Kingston, Ontario. The station currently airs a country music format and is branded on-air as Pure Country 99. The station is owned and operated by Bell Media which also owns sister station CFLY-FM.
History.
CKLC, along with its sister station CKLC-FM, began operations in 1953 as an affiliate of the CBC's Dominion Network. The call letters are taken from Kingston's nickname, the "Limestone
an affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Dominion Network. CKLC-FM 99.5's original purpose back in 1953 was to provide a reliable audio link for CKLC-AM 1380, which broadcast from a four-tower array on Wolfe Island. Equalized Bell Telephone broadcast lines were not reliable out to Wolfe Island back in 1953, and the FM signal carried the program feed of CKLC-AM, which was received at the AM transmitter site over the air, and re-broadcast on the 1380 AM signal. Eventually, the