{"id":855415,"date":"2026-08-12T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855415\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:58:23","slug":"cjbq-celebrates-80-years-of-hometown-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855415\/","title":{"rendered":"CJBQ celebrates 80 years of hometown radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/flag-and-polaris.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"CJBQ celebrates 80 years of hometown radio\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CJBQ, Mix 97, Rock 107, and Quinte News were on site all weekend for the air show (Photo: Tim Durkin\/ Quinte News)<\/p>\n<p>It was 80 years ago, August 12, 1946, that CJBQ 1230 AM went on the air.<\/p>\n<p>It was not overly powerful at 230 watts, however, since it was the only game in town, it did not have to be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/jack-devine-1947.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/jack-devine-1947.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The audio above is from 1947, when Jack Devine was on location.<\/p>\n<p>CJBQ was granted a licence in 1945, the year World War 2 ended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/cjbq-1980s-jingle.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/cjbq-1980s-jingle.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Above is a listen to the station jingle in the 1980s<\/p>\n<p>MORE BELOW<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d1827.cms.socastsrm.com\/matt-mitchell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66948\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Matt-Mitchell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1488\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-66948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Thompson talks to Matt Mitchell on his 25th anniversary. (photo: Quinte News\/ Tim Durkin)<\/p>\n<p>CJBQ\u2019s longest serving morning show host Matt Mitchell talked about those listening and how important they are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/matt-mitchell-3.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/matt-mitchell-3.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The station had three locations in its time; 11 Victoria Avenue, the former Intelligencer building at Bridge Street and Pinnacle, and 10 South Front Street since 1985.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/trudeau-motors.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/trudeau-motors.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1960s Trudeau Motors Commercial<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/peter-thompson.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/peter-thompson.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Red Knight \u2013 Peter Thompson in the 1980s<\/p>\n<p>MORE BELOW<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d1827.cms.socastsrm.com\/2021\/08\/13\/cjbq-turns-75\/dave-charles\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-268567 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-268567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dave-charles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1189\" height=\"651\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/dave-charles.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2021\/08\/dave-charles.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Charles talking about why CJBQ has lasted so long.<\/p>\n<p>The Morton family continues to own the station all these years later.<\/p>\n<p>CJBQ continues to stand as a steadfast companion and a trusted storyteller for the region it serves and is the only station in eastern Ontario that doesn\u2019t originate in the Toronto\/Ottawa\/Montreal triangle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; CJBQ, Mix 97, Rock 107, and Quinte News were on site all weekend for the air show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3735,3736,49,48,75,341,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,3732],"class_list":["post-855415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bancroft","tag-brighton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-pec","tag-picton","tag-prince-edward-county","tag-quinte","tag-quinte-news","tag-quinte-west","tag-trenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855415","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=855415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}