Twenty-two months after CKSW 570, and its repeater CJSN 1490<\/a>, switched from country to classic hits, Country 1490 will part ways from its sister station and become a repeater of Country 94.1.<\/p>\nBrett Adnum, president of Golden West Broadcasting, said the decision followed extensive consultation with local partners, businesses and listeners.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe heard loud and clear from the community of Shaunavon that not only do they want country music, but they want it on their local radio station,\u201d Adnum said. \u201cThey want it with a mix of local information, weather, news and updates. They want to listen in their hometown. After lots of deliberation and discussion here, what we decided was to bring it back and listen to the crowd and the community of Shaunavon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Country 1490 has partnered with the Shaunavon Shadows football team to launch the new brand on Friday during their game against the Lumsden Devils. The name, music format and logo will be unveiled at Smith Field at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
The station\u2019s Local Sports Live broadcast will carry the game, which includes a halftime kick from an undisclosed location for a $25,000 prize. The night will end with a concert on the field by the Saskatchewan Country Music Association’s 2024 Emerging Artist, Josh Stumpf.<\/p>\n
\u201cA big thank you to all of our advertisers and partners for helping make this happen \u2014 without you, we can\u2019t do anything that we do,\u201d Adnum said. \u201cTo our listeners in Shaunavon and the surrounding communities, thanks for consistently being there and being loyal to the radio station. I\u2019m really excited. I hope someone wins $25,000 at halftime and enjoys the concert.\u201d<\/p>\n
Golden West Broadcasting (formerly Southern Manitoba Broadcasting) has owned the station since 1974, when it purchased it from Frontier City Broadcasting. Elmer Hildebrand, owner and CEO of Golden West, said the acquisition of CKSW 570 and CJSN 1490 was the company\u2019s first outside of Manitoba, which led to the change in name.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were looking to get CKSW, but CJSN was part of the package, so it came along,\u201d Hildebrand said.<\/p>\n
Golden West invested in CKSW\u2019s transmitter site in 1977, boosting its power from 1,000 watts to 10,000 and moving it from 1400 on the AM dial to 570. With CKSW\u2019s signal aimed north, Hildebrand said CJSN 1490 played a critical role in covering the southwest.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom my perspective, it was always important to have Shaunavon, because with that signal it covered the southwest part of the province,\u201d he said. \u201cCKSW\u2019s signal is good in La Ronge, but it may not be good in Frontier.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Hunter Brothers grew up listening to CJSN. That was their radio station. In that part of Saskatchewan, not much else could be heard except maybe some U.S. stations. So they grew up with CJSN, and they\u2019re great supporters of ours.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaunavon\u2019s CJSN 1490 is returning to its original musical roots. The station, which signed on the air Dec.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-35141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}