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===''Flow'' moves to 98.7; ''Today Radio'' (2022β2024)=== {{see also|CKFG-FM}} On February 9, 2022, Stingray announced that it had reached an agreement with [[CKFG-FM]] and its new owner, Neeti P. Ray's CINA Media Group, to move the ''Flow'' branding to that station beginning February 14, and that 93.5 would launch a new format the same day. CFXJ subsequently went jockless, and much of its on-air staff was let go.<ref name="ri-flow-flip">{{cite web|last=Venta|first=Lance|date=February 9, 2022|title=Double Flip Coming In Toronto As Flow 93.5 Moves To 98.7|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/219689/double-flip-coming-in-toronto-as-flow-93-5-moves-to-98-7/|website=RadioInsight|access-date=February 9, 2022}}</ref><ref name="bd-flow-flip">{{cite web|last=Thiessen|first=Connie|date=February 9, 2022|title=G98.7 rebrands to Flow 98.7 as Stingray relinquishes heritage brand|url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/g98-7-rebrands-to-flow-98-7-as-stingray-relinquishes-heritage-brand/|access-date=February 9, 2022|work=Broadcast Dialogue|publisher=Momentum Media Marketing, Inc.}}</ref> A Stingray executive stated that the company had originally wanted to "[bring] ''Flow'' back to its roots as a community-driven station". However, after realizing that this would have competed directly with CKFG, Stingray instead reached an agreement to transfer the ''Flow'' brand to that station. CINA plans to position the station as serving the entirety of Toronto's [[Black Canadian]] community by essentially merging the two formats into one station, adding the hip-hop already heard on ''Flow'' to its existing format of R&B and [[Afro-Caribbean music|Afro-Caribbean]] music.<ref name="bd-flow-flip"/> [[File:93.5 FM Today Radio.png|Logo as "Today Radio" (2022-2024)|alt=Logo as "Today Radio" (2022-2024)|thumb]] On February 13, CFXJ began [[stunting (broadcasting)|stunting]] with a self-described "random selection" of pop songs, interspersed with promos redirecting "Flow" listeners to CKFG, and [[Radio sweeper|sweepers]] stating that "Today" was "arriving tomorrow".<ref name="ri-today-launch">{{Cite web|first=Lance|last=Venta|title=93.5 Today Radio Arrives In Toronto|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/219856/today-arrives-in-toronto/|date=February 14, 2022|access-date=February 14, 2022|website=RadioInsight|language=en-US}}</ref> The following day at midnight, CFXJ relaunched as ''93.5 Today Radio'', an [[adult hits]] format with a focus on topical discussions and interactions with listeners. The brand and format were licensed from a [[Vancouver]]-based marketing company. The format is also aired on [[Pattison Media]]'s [[CKCE-FM]] in [[Calgary]], with similarities to the ''Now!'' [[hot adult contemporary]] format used by its sister stations [[CKNO-FM]] [[Edmonton]] and [[CHNW-FM]] [[Winnipeg]].<ref name="ri-today-launch" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://radioinsight.com/blogs/219449/sometimes-live-sometimes-local-always-vital-still-winning/|title=Sometimes Live, Sometimes Local, Always Vital, Still Winning|first=Sean|last=Ross|website=RadioInsight|date=February 7, 2022|access-date=February 14, 2022}}</ref> On September 20, 2022, the CRTC published applications by Stingray to add [[Broadcast relay station#Boosters and distributed transmission|boosters]] for CFXJ on the 93.5 frequency in [[Mississauga]] and in the [[North York]] district of Toronto, which Stingray said would be the first [[single-frequency network]] implementation of its kind in Canada.{{efn|A few other Canadian stations already operate synchronous repeaters; for example, [[CJKX-FM]] (95.9 MHz), licensed to [[Ajax, Ontario|Ajax]] in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area, has a repeater at 95.9 in Toronto.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2006/db2006-107.htm|title=CRTC Decision 2006-107: CJKX-FM Ajax - New transmitter in Toronto|author=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|date=March 29, 2006|access-date=September 20, 2022}}</ref> Stingray stated that its implementation would have used a new implementation branded as "MaxxCasting".}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://applications.crtc.gc.ca/DocWebBroker/OpenDocument.aspx?AppNo=202206870|title=CRTC Application 2022-0687-0|format=ZIP|access-date=September 20, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://applications.crtc.gc.ca/DocWebBroker/OpenDocument.aspx?AppNo=202207042|title=CRTC Application 2022-0704-2 |format=ZIP|access-date=September 20, 2022}}</ref> The applications, which were opposed by a subsidiary of [[Evanov Communications]], were denied in September 2023, on the grounds that they would have constituted a "service expansion" beyond the station's current licensed area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2023/2023-305.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2023-305|date=September 1, 2023|access-date=January 9, 2024}}</ref>
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