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3 unusual facts about 2011 in radio


CHBN-FM

When CFMG-FM flipped from AC to contemporary hit radio as "Virgin Radio, it marked the first three-station FM top 40 battle in Edmonton as of February 2011 (the other competitor being CJNW-FM).

CIRX-FM

As of 2011, due to CKDV-FM going to classic hits, CIRX-FM is the only rock station in Prince George.

WNRJ

The station was assigned the WNRJ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on August 1, 2011.


CISS-FM

As of 2011, the station has eliminated the majority of its pre-1999 playlist and sticks towards a more 2000s-now direction.

CJGV-FM

On December 1, 2011, the station flipped to an all Christmas format for the holiday season, with announced plans to switch to adult contemporary after January 1, 2012.

CKFG-FM

On November 28, 2011 at 6 a.m., the station aired its first live broadcast with the song "I Can See Clearly Now" by Jimmy Cliff, then founder Fitzroy Gordon said a prayer, before handing it over to morning hosts Mark Strong and Jemeni, both formerly of Flow 93.5.

Closer to the Edge

It became the band's first single to be played on adult contemporary radio, with the first stations added being Detroit's WNIC (which changed formats to adult top 40 in August 2011) during Spring 2011 and WLER-FM in Butler/Pittsburgh.

KAJE

However, since the flip of rival KKBA to adult hits in June 2011, KAJE changed entirely to a classic hits format, mainly due to no post-2000 songs at the station.

WCKX

Officially, it is the first Radio One-owned station (along with Dallas/Fort Worth's KBFB, Philadelphia's WPHI-FM, which has changed to urban contemporary in 2011 & Indianapolis' WHHH) to be a rhythmic since the sale of former sister station WDHT in Dayton, OH and KTWN-FM in Minneapolis.

WCLI-FM

On March 25, 2011, at approximately 1:01pm EDT, WKSW dropped its 23-year country format abruptly on 101.7 and went dark in the middle of Taylor Swift's "Back To December", and switched over to their new 101.5/Enon signal, for a Modern Adult Contemporary format, branded as "Click 101-5".

WMGF

It had seems like the station had re-adopted Clear Channel's Premium Choice somewhere in Spring 2013, which had the station lean towards the Adult Top 40 direction again like it did in early 2011.

As such, the station adopted Clear Channel's Premium Choice and synced the station's playlist with it 24/7 which made the station sounded like it's leaning towards the Adult Top 40 direction by the beginning of 2011.


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