CKQR-FM
Radio station in Castlegar, British Columbia
CKQR-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a classic rock format at 99.3 FM in Castlegar, British Columbia. The station is branded as The Goat and it is owned by the Vista Broadcast Group.
History
The station originally signed on September 22, 1969 and began broadcasting at 1230 AM in the 1970s, then moved to 760 AM in 1984 until it moved to its current frequency in 1998.
CKGF began broadcasting on 1340 kHz in 1969 and moved to FM in the 1980s.
In 1993, CKQR began simulcasting some of its programming on CKGF Grand Forks. On December 16, later that same year, CKQR was given approval to add an FM transmitter at Nelson, operating on 103.5 MHz, with an effective radiated power of 84 watts. The rebroadcaster in Nelson signed on the following year.
On February 3, 2005, the CRTC approved the application by Valley Broadcasters Ltd. for a broadcasting licence to operate an English-language FM commercial radio programming undertaking in Nelson. The new station would operate at 103.5 MHz (channel 278A1) with an average effective radiated power of 104 watts, and would have a transmitter in Crawford Bay operating at 91.9 MHz (channel 220LP) with an ERP of 40 watts.
The public source identifies “CKQR-FM” as radio station in Castlegar, British Columbia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around CKQR-FM, Radio and station.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5012512. Authority coordinates are 49.315, -117.625. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1230, 1984 and 1998.
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This entry incorporates text from “CKQR-FM” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.