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| Broadcast area | Peace River Regional District |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 890kHz (AM) |
| Branding | Pure Country 890 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Country |
| Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Vista Radio |
| History | |
First air date | December 15,1947 |
Call sign meaning | CJ DawsonCreek (broadcast area) |
| Technical information | |
| Class | B |
| Power | 10,000watts |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | iheartradio.ca/purecountry/dawson-creek |
CJDC is a Canadianradio station, broadcasting at 890AM inDawson Creek,British Columbia. The station, owned byVista Radio, airs acountryformat. CJDC broadcasts with a power of 10,000 watts day and night and uses anon-directional antenna daytime, and a two-towerdirectional antenna nighttime, to protectClass-A clear-channel stationsKBBIHomer,Alaska andWLSChicago, Illinois. Its broadcast area reachesValleyview,Grande Prairie,Chetwynd, Fort St. John,Cecil Lake, Rose Prairie, and many other rural communities in the Peace Region. It is one of the only stations that comes in clearly for many people in the rural areas of the Peace Region.
The station was launched on December 15, 1947, by local broadcaster Radio Station CJDC (Dawson Creek, BC) Ltd. as an affiliate of theCBC'sTrans-Canada Network, broadcasting on 1350 AM. In 1959, the company also launchedCJDC-TV, aCBC Television affiliate, and changed its corporate name to CJDC Ltd. At a later date, the corporate name was changed to Mega Communications.
The station adopted its current frequency of 890 AM in 1986,[1] and added atranslator on 92.7FM atTumbler Ridge in 1988 with the callsignCJDC-1-FM.[2]
The stations were sold to Okanagan Skeena Broadcasters in 1997, toTelemedia in 1999. Telemedia was later taken over byStandard Radio in 2002, and most of Standard's assets, including the CJDC stations, were in turn acquired by Astral in 2007, and were sold toBell Media in 2013.
On May 28, 2019, as part of a country-wide format reorganization by Bell, CJDC rebranded asPure Country 890.[3]
On February 8, 2024, Bell announced a restructuring that included the sale of 45 of its 103 radio stations to seven buyers, subject to approval by the CRTC, including CJDC, which is to be sold toVista Radio.The application was approved on February 13, 2025.[4][5]
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