{"id":531986,"date":"2026-03-12T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531986\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:45:10","slug":"80-years-of-cjob-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531986\/","title":{"rendered":"80 years of CJOB – Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n

\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 80 years since CJOB\u2019s first broadcast.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

On March 11, 1946, on the 10th floor of downtown Winnipeg\u2019s Lindsay Building, then-mayor Garnet Coulter flipped the switch that put the station on the air. CJOB was the first station in Winnipeg to offer news on the hour, western Canada to remain on-air 24 hours per day. <\/p>\n

CJOB\u2019s founder, Jack Oliver Blick, founded the station after returning from the Second World War. The station\u2019s call letters \u201cJOB\u201d stood for his initials, and the jobs he gave 26 other veterans at the station. The station\u2019s slogan was \u201cWorking for Winnipeg.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Get<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n

Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n

The station remained on-air during the 1950 flood, broadcasting from the roof of the transmitter building. 47 years later, during the 1997 \u201cFlood of the Century\u201d, staff protected the station\u2019s transmitter in St. Norbert with sandbags to remain on the air.<\/p>\n

Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n

CJOB began broadcasting from 680 AM in 1957, and expanded its transmitting power, and thus coverage area, over the next several years. CJOB has received communications from listeners in Canada, the United States, and as far away as Norway who have been able to pick up the signal.<\/p>\n

After moving the station to Portage Avenue, then to the Polo Park area (where Jack Blick Avenue is named in his honour,) 680 CJOB currently broadcasts from the 30th floor of 201 Portage avenue, broadcasting news, sports, and talk shows 24 hours per day. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t&copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size It\u2019s been 80 years since CJOB\u2019s first broadcast. On March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[208596,49,48,5105,208597,44,1893,22073],"class_list":["post-531986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-680-cjob","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-features","tag-jack-blick","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}