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CJEZ-FM is a radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It broadcasts an adult contemporary format at 97.3 FM, and it identifies itself on-air as EZ Rock. It is the flagship of the EZ Rock stations owned by Astral Media. Like many other AC stations today, there are no 1960s songs on the playlist; however, rival CHFI continues to play 1960s music.
The station was launched in 1987 by Redmond Broadcasting as an easy listening station as EZ 97.3, changing format to classic hits as Z97.3 in the early 1990s with the decline of easy-listening formats at the time. It was acquired by Telemedia in 1995, and subsequently adopted its current format (while being a younger-skewing adult contemporary format) and branding. Several other Telemedia-owned stations broadcasting a similar format in other cities were later branded EZ Rock as well.
When Standard Broadcasting acquired Telemedia in 2002, CJEZ was one of the stations retained by Standard, although some of the other EZ Rock stations were sold to Rogers Communications or Astral Media. Many of them continued to use the EZ Rock brand.
CJEZ competes most closely with fellow adult contemporary station CHFI at 98.1, but CHFI skews at a much more older audience. In the mid-2000s, it picked up veteran CHFI morning show host Erin Davis after that station cancelled her show with Bob Magee in favour of Mad-Dog and Billie, later known as Jay and Billie, younger morning hosts who had previously worked in contemporary hit and urban radio at KISS 92 FM. It was the most-listened-to FM station in Toronto from 2003-2005, beating its competitor, CHFI. In 2005, CHFI rehired Davis for mornings, also hiring her co-host, longtime CJEZ morning host Mike Cooper, meaning CHFI's ratings increased over CJEZ's. Based on CHFI beating CJEZ again in 2006, the station began leaning in more of a hot AC direction, patterned from its hot AC sister, CKFM-FM. The station usually plays Christmas music from the final week of November up until Boxing Day.
CJEZ along with most of the Standard Broadcasting assets were sold to Astral Media on October 29 2007.
For its new morning show, CJEZ hired Stu Jeffries and Colleen Rusholme away from Country 95.3. Stu later left EZ Rock in the summer of 2008, being replaced with radio personality Humble Howard, Kim Stockwood, and long-time CHUM-FM morning co-host Rick Hodge. Colleen remained on the show.
"My Music at Work", then a slogan for the station, inspired the title of The Tragically Hip's 2000 album Music At Work.
Hosts
- Humble Howard, Kim Stockwood, Colleen Rusholme, and Rick Hodge, mornings
- Darryl Henry, weekday middays
- KJ, weekday afternoon drive time and Studio 97 Disco
- Troy McCallum, weekend afternoons and swing shifts
- Hailey Bryant, weekend mornings
- Delilah, syndicated weekday/Sunday evenings 9 p.m.-2 a.m.
- John Tesh, syndicated early evening/overnight show
Host from third party companies:
- Stu Jeffries (former EZRock Monring show host) and Kim Clarke Champniss, Sunday 10a.m.-12 Noon - program from Orbty Media
Former hosts
- Mike Cooper, former weekday morning co-host (with Cardoso) and (Davis); left October 2005 to join Erin Davis @ CHFI 98.1
- Erin Davis, maternity leave substitute for Christine Cardoso as weekday morning co-host with (Cooper), 2004–2005 and returned to CHFI
- Shelly Wright - "Heart of the Night" evening show host
- Jay Nelson (Frank Coxe), late weekday morning co-host
- Terri Michael - weekday morning co-host (with Cooper), mid-day host
- Christine Cardoso - weekday morning co-host (with Cooper); left Summer 2005
- Marc "Mais Oui" Denis - mid-day host, EZ Rock Countdown Host
- Ron Young, weekends and swing shifts, and Studio 97 - now with Z 103.5 FM
- John Majhor - late weekday morning host
- Trevor Biggs - weekend morning host 2000-2002
- Stu Jeffries - morning host with Colleen Rusholme, 2005-2008; now host of The 80's Show with Kim Clarke Champniss on Sundays
- Peter Kaye - weekend night host 2000-2002, weekend morning host 2002-2007
- Anwar Knight - overnight host, went to Global Ontario News then CTV Toronto/Newsnet (Weather Forecaster)
- Craig Fox - overnight host
- Deanna Nason - weekend host
- Bob Van Dyke - weekend host
- Murray Smith - weekend host
- Carl Banas - evening host (1987 - 1991?)
- Russ Thompson - afternoon host (1987 - 1991?)
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