It was owned by Grant Hyland and Jack Whitby and broadcast from studios in the Windsor Hotel.
Services were expanded with more news and sports coverage being introduced, as both stations tried to serve both cities.
In 1955, Highland Broadcasting opened CJIC-TV, bringing CBC Television service to the Sault.
In addition to being the station manager, Russ Ramsay was a well-known sportscaster and play-by-play announcer.
In 1976, the Hyland family sold its radio, television and cable interests to Huron Broadcasting, owned by a group of businessmen from Sault Ste.
Huron also bought CKCY, CKCY-FM, CJNR in Blind River, CKNR in Elliot Lake and CKNS in Espanola from Algonquin Broadcasting.
Due to CRTC regulations regarding concentration of media ownership, Huron was required to sell one AM and one FM license in Sault Ste.
Huron sold CJIC and CJIC-FM to Gilder Broadcasting, owned by the former CKCY personality Russ Hilderly and a local businessman, Bruce Pickersgill.
Russ Hilderley, president and CEO of Gilder, hosted Reaching Out, a daily phone-in program from 10:00 am to noon.
"Woody" brought an outrageous style and humour that Sault radio had not really heard to that point.
His commentaries ranged from goings on at Algoma Steel to the Language Resolution and beyond and often generated talk in the community and occasionally rebuttals and headlines in the local papers.
Marie market, unregulated all hit radio in the form of WYSS was being introduced in Sault Ste.
CFYN struggled over the next seven years changing formats several times from adult contemporary, to a combination of news, sports and oldies, to country music.
The two FM stations went on to form one of Canada's first LMAs and moved into shared office and studio space, with Pelmorex being the managing partner in the arrangement.