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  1. CHMJ (730 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, owned by Corus Entertainment and calling itself Global News Radio 730 Vancouver. It broadcasts an all-news format. Its radio studios and offices are in the TD Tower in Downtown Vancouver.
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  3. CHMJ transmits with a power output of 50,000 watts, the maximum for Canadian AM stations. It uses a directional antenna at all times to protect other stations on 730 AM from interference. The transmitter is off British Columbia Highway 17 in Delta.
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  5. On February 3, 1955, CKLG, owned by Lions Gate Broadcasting Ltd., began transmitting at 1070 kHz on the AM band with a 1,000-watt transmitter. Originally, studios and transmitter were both located in North Vancouver. The radio station was controlled by the Gordon Gibson family, who were involved in the logging business. (Gordon Gibson, Sr, was known as "The Bull of the Woods.")
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  7. In 1958, the station changed frequencies from 1070 kHz to 730 kHz and increased power to 10,000 watts. The transmitter site was moved from North Vancouver to Delta. The station was sold to Moffat Broadcasting Ltd. in 1961, and in 1964 launched an FM sister station, the original CKLG-FM (now CFOX-FM), at 99.3 MHz. Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, CKLG (also known as "LG73") played a variety of contemporary music, at times ranking as one of the most popular radio stations in the Vancouver radio market. In 1975, the station once again increased power, raising it to the current 50,000 watts.
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  9. The station's popularity declined in the early 1990s, as listeners switched to FM radio for music listening. In 1992, the Corus Radio Company (now Corus Entertainment) purchased Moffat's Vancouver radio properties. Corus tried a brief and unsuccessful attempt at a talk radio format from September 1993 to February 1994. The station returned to a hit music format, which lasted for the next seven years, despite new competition from station CKZZ-FM. CKZZ originally began as a rhythmic contemporary station in 1991 before moving towards a more mainstream Top 40/CHR format in 1996.
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  11. On February 1, 2001, at Midnight, after playing "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachlan, Corus changed the station's call letters to CJNW. (The CKLG call sign was later transferred to Rogers Communications' CKLG-FM). CJNW adopted a 24-hour news format referred to on-air as "NW2, all news radio, powered by CKNW". Management wanted to leverage the Vancouver market dominance of co-owned talk station 980 CKNW, in light of the success of Rogers' all-news station CKWX "News 1130."
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  13. On May 28, 2002, at 5 a.m., CJNW discontinued the all-news format and began a nearly 2½-month-long stunt of modern rock music, which also included a month of down time for a transmitter site upgrade. On August 6, at 6 a.m., the station changed call letters once again to the current CHMJ, and flipped to a hot talk format branded as MOJO 730, Talk Radio for Guys, which was based on sister station CFMJ in Toronto.
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  15. When that format failed to attract a large enough audience, the station changed to an all-sports format in February 2004, identified as MOJO Sports Radio, AM 730. It was the radio home of the Vancouver Giants junior hockey team, the Vancouver Whitecaps soccer team and other local sports events including UBC Thunderbirds and SFU Clansmen football and basketball games. It also carried Seattle Seahawks games from Seattle's KIRO. It was an ESPN Radio network affiliate and also shared some sports content with CKNW.
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  17. On May 30, 2006, CHMJ terminated its all-sports format, switching to a stunt of a series of promotional content. The station re-launched at 7:30 a.m. on June 5, 2006 with a new format described as "continuous drive-time news and the best of talk". Programming consisted of all-news blocks during the morning and afternoon drive times and rebroadcasts of talk radio programming from CKNW. CHMJ also continued to provide play-by-play coverage of Vancouver Giants WHL hockey, Vancouver Whitecaps, and Seattle Seahawks NFL football.
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  19. On November 26, 2006, the station dropped the talk shows and reverted to an all-news format for the second time in its history. It later discontinued the remaining sports coverage it carried over from its sports format.
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  21. On July 3, 2016, CHMJ was knocked off the air temporarily by a fire that broke out in Burns Bog, where the station's transmitter site is located. The station was broadcast temporarily on the HD3 digital signal of sister station 101.1 CFMI-FM.
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  23. On December 11, 2017, the station re-branded as Global News Radio 730 Vancouver, as part of an ongoing rebranding of Corus's news/talk radio stations to create synergies with Global News television programming, and its local station CHAN-DT.
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  25. Global News Radio 730 Vancouver has a mission: to deliver breaking news as it happens, 24 hours a day. With the largest and most experienced news, traffic, weather, sports and business team in the city, Global News Radio 730 Vancouver is dedicated to give listeners the most credible and reliable news service in the Lower Mainland. We also have Vancouver's most comprehensive traffic reports every ten minutes and accurate weather forecasts. All this takes a big commitment from a lot of people and that commitment has turned Global News Radio 730 Vancouver into the most effective and trustworthy news voice built upon a reputation of CKNW, Vancouver's leading news station.
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  27. Hourly clock:
  28. :00 Headlines
  29. :01 News
  30. :03 Weather
  31. :04 News
  32. :06 Commercial
  33. :07 Traffic
  34. :08 News
  35. :10 Business
  36. :12 Commercial
  37. :13 Weather
  38. :14 News
  39. :16 Commercial
  40. :17 Traffic
  41. :18 News
  42. :20 Sports
  43. :22 Commercial
  44. :23 Weather
  45. :24 News
  46. :26 Commercial
  47. :27 Traffic
  48. :28 The Extra
  49. :29 Commercial
  50. :30 Headlines
  51. :31 News
  52. :33 Weather
  53. :34 News
  54. :36 Commercial
  55. :37 Traffic
  56. :38 News
  57. :40 Business
  58. :42 Commercial
  59. :43 Weather
  60. :44 News
  61. :46 Commercial
  62. :47 Traffic
  63. :48 News
  64. :50 Sports
  65. :52 Commercial
  66. :53 Weather
  67. :54 News
  68. :56 Commercial
  69. :57 Traffic
  70. :58 The Extra
  71. :59 Commercial
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