CKMO (AM)
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| City | Victoria, British Columbia |
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| Branding | Village 900 |
| Slogan | Global Roots Radio |
| Frequency | 900 kHz (AM) |
| First air date | 1993 (FM) 2000 (AM) (AM broadcasting ceased March 4, 2012) |
| Format | campus radio |
| ERP | 10 kW |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | closest available call sign to CAMOsun |
| Owner |
Camosun College (CKMO Radio Society) |
CKMO was a Canadian radio station, broadcasting on AM 900 in Victoria, British Columbia. Branded as Village 900, it is the campus radio station of the city's Camosun College.
CAMO Radio was originally launched in 1973 as a closed circuit station on the Camosun College Lansdowne campus for the purpose of providing students in the Applied Communication Program (ACP) with practical on-air and station management experience. ACP and CAMO were founded by Kermit Carlson. In 1991, the student run CAMO Radio Society incorporated as a non-profit organization and began to prepare an application for a low-power FM licence. That licence was granted by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 1993. The station began broadcasting that year on FM 103.1 as CKMO-FM, adopting the CKMO call sign as CA is not among the ITU prefixes assigned to Canada.
In 1995, the station began its "Education on the Air" program, broadcasting college courses. In 1996, Education on the Air won an award for excellence in community radio broadcasting from the National Campus and Community Radio Association.
In 2000, CKMO and Rogers Media' CJVI applied to the CRTC to swap frequencies. The application was approved, and on September 4, CKMO began broadcasting on 900 AM with an ERP of 10,000 watts, while CJVI took over the 103.1 FM frequency. Also that year, CKMO moved to a full-time roots music format.
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