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CHBM-FM is a radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada broadcasting at 97.3 FM. The station currently broadcasts a Classic hits format branded as Boom 97.3. CHBM's studios are located at Yonge and St. Clair in Toronto's Deer Park neighbourhood, while their transmitter is located atop the CN Tower. The station's playlist contains tracks from the 70's 80's and 90's, with a core focus on music released in the 1980s. ==History== The station was launched on May 24, 1987 at 9:00 AM by Redmond Broadcasting, with the call letters CJEZ-FM, and carried an easy listening format under the branding ''Easy 97''. In the early 1990s, it changed its moniker to ''Lite 97'', but soon after, it changed its format to classic hits as ''Z97.3''. In February 1995, Redmond sold the station to Telemedia and on June 30, at 5:30 AM, the station changed monikers to ''97.3 EZ Rock''. The slogan was "''The Heartbeat of Toronto''", with an adult contemporary format. EZ Rock launched with the intent of having an audience of mainly women ages 25–44, and the Toronto station became the flagship when several other stations owned by Telemedia at the time broadcasting a similar format also gained the EZ Rock branding. In the summer of 1998, CJEZ aired liners in Italian, French, Spanish and Cantonese as a way to acknowledge the racial diversity in the city. The station went through several slogan changes during its tenure with the AC format, including "''My Music at Work''", which inspired the title of The Tragically Hip's 2000 album "''Music At Work''". It also had a modified version of that slogan, "''Toronto's Music @ Work''". In later years, the station had other taglines such as "''Toronto's Soft Rock Favourites''", "''Today's Soft Rock with Less Talk''", "''A Better Variety of Yesterday and Today''", and "''Toronto's At Work Station''". In 2002, Standard Radio bought Telemedia and kept CJEZ under their ownership, while some of the other EZ Rock stations were sold to either Rogers Communications or Astral Media. In 2003, rival station CHFI fired long time morning show host Erin Davis and was replaced by Mad Dog and Billie. To combat this, in 2004, CJEZ hired Davis to partner alongside Mike Cooper (who has been at the station since the flip to EZ Rock in 1995) because long time co-host Christine Cardoso left due to maternity leave. However, when Davis was rehired by CHFI in 2005 (and returned to mornings), CHFI's ratings skyrocketed back to #1, causing CJEZ to slip. To solve this, EZ Rock hired Stu Jeffries (who returned to the station in 2011 for mornings from 5-9) and Colleen Rusholme for mornings and the station began leaning in a more Hot AC direction patterned after its sister station CKFM-FM (now a CHR station as of 2009). During its latter days as EZ Rock, the station removed songs from the 1960s. In 2007, Astral purchased Standard, resulting in the Standard-owned EZ Rock stations across Canada (including CJEZ) become Astral-owned. In 2008, Humble Howard, and Kim Stockwood joined Rusholme and took over EZ Rock's morning show in August, replacing Stu Jeffries. In June of the same year, Rick Hodge (formerly a long time morning co-host on CHUM-FM) joined EZ Rock and sister station CFRB. In November 2009, Hodge and Stockwood left EZ Rock. A short time later, midday announcer Darryl Henry was gone from the station as well (he is now at CHFI). Henry has been with the station since 1997 and has hosted evenings and afternoons before moving to middays. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CHBM-FM」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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