By Lincoln DePradine
Early final November, Randy Reid was named common supervisor of CKFG-FM – also called Move 98.7 – that makes use of the tagline, “The place Black Music Lives’’.
“We’ve had an thrilling first two months,’’ Reid instructed The Caribbean Digicam when requested concerning the administration operations of the station, which is owned by CINA Media Group.
In September 2021, CINA Media – an operator of a number of multicultural stations – acquired possession of CKFG FM.
CKFG started broadcasting on October 3, 2011, as G98.7. The programming format of the station, which was based by the late Jamaican-Canadian broadcaster Fitzroy Gordon, included airing a mixture of reggae, calypso and soca, R&B, hip hop, easy jazz, gospel and worldbeat music.
The now Reid-led Move 98.7, on its web site, says it’s “providing a Black music format that’s beloved by individuals of all cultural backgrounds’’.
It explains that “umbrella phrases, akin to ‘Black music’ or ‘City music’, are used inside the radio context as a way to describe the breadth of musical codecs that we’re taking part in’’.
In keeping with Move, it’s additionally “addressing problems with direct concern to members of the Black & Caribbean neighborhood, who’ve been lacking a voice on mainstream radio stations’’.
The station guarantees that its “interactive discuss programming will even replicate the range of our viewers’’, and boasts of its “very various’’ listenership and employees.
Amongst Move’s employees is outstanding Caribbean-Canadian veteran DJ, Dr Jay. He’s been within the music enterprise for greater than 30 years and is popularly often known as, “De Soca Prince’’.
Dr. Jay, beginning January 14, started internet hosting “Soca Remedy’’ on Move, from 6-9 pm.
He hosted a present of the identical title that was launched in 2001 when Move was underneath the steerage of founder, Jamaican-Canadian businessman Denham Jolly.
Reid, in an interview with The Caribbean Digicam, mentioned Move 98.7 additionally has launched “an incredible morning present’’, which has been “phenomenal with establishing the kind of professionalism and sound that we’re searching for’’.
Move’s plan is to “reestablish the reference to the Black neighborhood and actually embrace the tradition, the vibrancy of the neighborhood and all of these issues; in order that the broader communities that devour our content material can all flourish underneath an understanding of the inspiration of the place we come from’’, mentioned Reid, a Humber Faculty graduate, who has labored with media homes akin to CBC, CHRY 105.5 and The Toronto Star.
Reid mentioned he “fell in love with radio’’ on the age of six and all the time wished to run a radio station.
Aside from his administration job at Move, Reid is also CEO of VIBE 105, CHRY FM. At Move 98.7, mentioned Reid, “we’ll be working with the neighborhood over the subsequent six months to essentially tighten up how we are able to greatest have conversations with members of the Again neighborhood’’.
