CKGB-FM (99.3 MHz) is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format in Timmins, Ontario.
The station was launched in late 1933 by young Northern Ontario media entrepreneur Roy Thomson, who would later become the owner of The Times of London.
[2] In 2001, the station received CRTC approval to move to the FM dial,[3] retaining its legendary call letters as CKGB-FM but taking on the "EZ Rock" brand and adult contemporary format, giving the small Timmins radio market its first direct competition, as the Haliburton Broadcasting Group-owned CHMT-FM had launched as AC/CHR hybrid just a few months before.
Less than a year after EZ Rock's Timmins launch, CHMT flipped to fill the void in country radio as Moose FM.
CKGB was one of four EZ Rock-branded stations owned and operated by Rogers Media, all of which are located in Northern Ontario (the others being CJMX-FM Sudbury, CHUR-FM North Bay, and CHAS-FM Sault Ste.