CFXJ-FM is a Canadian radio station in Toronto, Ontario, which uses the on-air brand The New FLOW 93.5. It first aired in 2001 as Canada's first urban music station. The station now airs a rhythmic top 40 format, as a competitor to dance/top 40 station CIDC-FM (Z103.5).
Milestone Radio, the station's owner, first applied to the CRTC for an urban music station in 1990, but were passed over in favour of a country music station, CISS. They applied a...
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CFXJ-FM is a Canadian radio station in Toronto, Ontario, which uses the on-air brand The New FLOW 93.5. It first aired in 2001 as Canada's first urban music station. The station now airs a rhythmic top 40 format, as a competitor to dance/top 40 station CIDC-FM (Z103.5).
Milestone Radio, the station's owner, first applied to the CRTC for an urban music station in 1990, but were passed over in favour of a country music station, CISS. They applied again in 1997, and were passed over in favour of CBLA, the city's existing Radio One station, which the CBC wanted to move to FM for technical reasons.
Both decisions sparked controversy in Toronto, as the CRTC's reasons for passing over an urban-format station (which Toronto did not have) in favour of existing radio services were widely believed to be racist in nature. The lack of an urban station also created immense difficulties for Canadian hip hop, reggae and R&B; musicians, who had no radio outlets in Canada to play and promote their...
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