Broadcast area Truro, Nova Scotia Frequency 99.5 MHz (FM) | Branding Cat Country 99.5 Format Country music | |
Slogan Today's best country, including your all-time favourites! First air date September 10, 1947 as CKCL-AM | ||
CKTY-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 99.5 FM in Truro, Nova Scotia. It plays a country music format branded as Cat Country 99.5. The station has been on the air since September 10, 1947. It originally broadcast at 1400 AM as CKCL then to 600 in 1956, and received CRTC approval to move to 99.5 FM in 2001 after shutting down the AM 600 frequency.
The station is owned by Bell Media.
CKTY was formerly the callsign of a now-defunct AM radio station out of Sarnia, Ontario, which moved to the FM dial and is now CHKS-FM. CKCL was also a former callsign of a radio station in Toronto, Ontario in the 1920s.
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