CJPX-FM

CJPX-FM (99.5 MHz) is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. Owned and operated by Leclerc Communication, it broadcasts using an omnidirectional antenna on Mount Royal with an effective radiated power of 8,700 watts (class B). The station launched in 1998 as a commercial classical music station, branded Radio-Classique, and continued in that format until a sale in 2020 when it shifted to an adult contemporary format. In August 2024, CJPX shifted to talk programming, simulcasting Quebecor's Qub Radio, during daytime hours on weekdays, with rock music in other time periods. The station had a classical music commercial format at its inception on June 25, 1998. The station was the first successful commercial classical music station in Montreal, following the failure of CJRM-FM in 1968 and decades of reluctance since then by the CRTC to allow such a station to go on the air. It was conceived in the 'Top 40 classics' style of Radio Classique in France, or Classic FM in the UK. In December 2014, it was announced that CJPX and its Quebec City sister station CJSQ-FM would be sold to Groupe Musique Greg, a company founded by Montreal musician and radio personality Gregory Charles. Charles' offer to buy the two stations came in response to rumours that former owner Jean-Pierre Coallier was looking to retire and sell them. The station was the only 24-hour source of mostly classical music in Montreal – including some jazz, with the two national CBC FM networks, Ici Musique and CBC Music, switching around 2009 to a mix of classical, jazz, adult alternative and other genres.