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CKJN-FM is a Canadian commercial radio station, licensed to Haldimand, Ontario in 2005. Since May 2014, the station is branded on-air as Country 92.9. The station originally launched with the call sign CKNS, and adopted its current call sign and format in June 2007. Concurrently with those changes, the station adopted the brand name Jayne FM, but was rebranded again in September of that year.
The application proposed a unique multi-genre Canadian format including a minimum 60% fully qualified Canadian content as defined by CRTC regulations. The balance of music would contain Canadian elements. This percentage was selected to enable the station to play popular music by Canadian artists that does not qualify under present rules as Canadian content.
The proposed format was inspired by Internet radio station LG73, which is in turn inspired by, and an unofficial tribute to, the former Vancouver broadcast station CKLG, when it was an AM station under that brand. CKLG was never exclusively or overwhelmingly devoted to Canadian content as the Internet station or the proposed Haldimand station.
Bel-Roc suggested that they would eventually apply to rebroadcast the station on available frequencies in many other Canadian cities.
After several weeks of "test" broadcasting, CKNS 92.9 FM "officially" went on the air at 6:00 a.m. on May 15, 2006. Former CKOC 1150 on-air DJ Bob Sherwin launched the station's morning show and hosted the morning show until his death on May 16, 2007 of a heart attack. Former FM 108 on-air DJ Burt Thombs launched the station's afternoon drive show. The station broadcasts from its offices and studios on Argyle Street South in Caledonia. Some of the station's content is also broadcast by live feed directly into the Caledonia studio from remote locations across the country, formerly including Phil Kushnir's show out of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Haliburton Broadcasting Group became the controlling shareholder of Bel-Roc Communications in April 2007, and in September the company, flipped CKJN's branding to Moose FM.
On April 23, 2012, Vista Broadcast Group, which owns a number of radio stations in western Canada, announced a deal to acquire Haliburton Broadcasting, in cooperation with Westerkirk Capital. The transaction was approved by the CRTC on October 19, 2012.
On May 26, 2014, CKJN flipped to Country as "Country 92.9".