In September 2018, the CRTC issued a call for applications for a new commercial FM station serving North Bay.

[1] Among the applicants was Vista Radio, owner of CFXN-FM, who proposed a station that would carry an oldies format on 90.5 FM, with an effective radiated power of 45,800 watts.

[3] In June 2020, Vista announced that it had acquired the heritage callsign CFCH, which once belonged to what is now Rogers-owned CKFX-FM.

[4] From 2005 to 2014, the CFCH callsign was previously used at an unrelated radio station in Chase, British Columbia.

[5][6] The new station competes primarily with Rogers' 600 CKAT (which had taken over the original CFCH's AM 600 frequency after it moved to 101.9 FM as CKFX in the 1990s)