[1] In April 1987, the OK Radio Group Ltd. (known at the time as Victoria Communications Ltd.) was granted a construction permit to start a new FM station.

For a time, CKKQ had an adult album alternative (AAA) lean until The Jim Pattison Group took over the station from OK Radio.

Thanks to the prime position of CKKQ's transmitter on the Malahat Ridge, its signal reaches up Vancouver Island as far north as Nanaimo, onto the Lower Mainland as far east as Langley and into Washington as far south as Everett.

One of the original 26 employees, Ed Bain has spent more than three decades of his career at CKKQ hosting The Q Morning Show.

While there have been multiple producers, newscasters and sports announcers, Ed Bain has been the one constant on the show since CKKQ's launch.