CJNI-FM

CJNI-FM
City	Halifax, Nova Scotia
Broadcast area	Halifax Regional Municipality
Frequency	95.7 MHz (FM)
Branding	CityNews 95.7
Programming
Format	News/Talk/Sports
Affiliations	Toronto Blue Jays Radio Network; CBS Sports Radio
Ownership
Owner	Rogers Sports & Media ; (Rogers Media, Inc.)
Sister stations	CFLT-FM
History
First air date	October 11, 2005
Call sign meaning	CJ News and Information
Technical information
Class	C1
ERP	65,000 watts
HAAT	224.1 meters (735 ft)
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	halifax.citynews.ca

CJNI-FM (95.7 MHz) is a Canadian radio station in Halifax, Nova Scotia. CJNI has a News/Talk/Sports format branded as CityNews 95.7. The station is owned by Rogers Media which also owns sister station CFLT-FM. CJNI-FM is currently the only commercial News/Talk/Sports station in Atlantic Canada. Studios and offices are on Young Street in Halifax, while the transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive in Clayton Park.

Programming[]

On weekdays, CJNI has an all-news block during morning drive times. Middays and afternoons, two talk shows are heard, hosted by Todd Veinotte and Jeff Marek. Overnight and early weekend mornings, CJNI carries the national Rogers all-news service, shared with CFTR Toronto, CKWX Vancouver and CIWW Ottawa.

"An Hour To Give" with Sam Laprade and "The Big Story" podcast run on the weekend mornings, along with a gardening show on Sunday mornings.

In the evening and weekend afternoons, CJNI carries CBS Sports Radio. The station features play-by-play from three teams: Toronto Blue Jays,^[1] Montreal Canadiens, and the Halifax Mooseheads in the QMJHL.^[2]

History[]

On November 26, 2004, Rogers Communications received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a new English-language News/Talk commercial FM radio station in Halifax to operate at 95.7 MHz.^[3] The station officially signed on the air on October 11, 2005, at 5:30 a.m.

The station was networked with CKNI-FM in Moncton, and CHNI-FM in Saint John, until August 2014, when those two stations were sold to separate owners and flipped to music formats.

In June 2021, Rogers announced that it would rebrand CJNI and its other all-news and news/talk radio stations under the CityNews brand beginning October 18, 2021.^[4] This was despite the fact that Citytv does not operate in the region, only being available in Atlantic Canada on cable and satellite as an out-of-market distant signal.