Milestone Radio

Milestone Radio, Inc.was a radio broadcasting company headquartered inToronto,Ontario,Canada. They were the first broadcasting company in Canada that was owned and operated byBlack Canadians.The company's president wasDenham Jolly.

Company history

The company was founded in 1988 by five prominent individuals in Toronto's black community. After two attempts to obtain a license, which saw the group controversially passed over in favour of existing radio services, the group finally received a license from the CRTC in 2000 to launch the country's firstR&B/hip-hopoutlet,CFXJ-FM- branded as "Flow 93.5", which signed on the air in 2001.

Slaight Communicationswas a minority investor in the company; this ownership stake was not part of the company's 2007 sale of its broadcasting assets toAstral Media.

In 2003, the company teamed up withCHUM Limitedto obtain a license for aRhythmic Top 40station inEdmonton,Alberta.That station,CHBN-FM,made its debut on February 17, 2005. CHBN-FM has since moved to mainstream top 40 since December 2005, and CHUM's stake in the station was transferred toCTVglobemediawhen that company acquired CHUM Limited in 2007.

CHUM Radio, a division of CTVglobemedia (nowBell Media Radio) had acquired CFXJ which was approved by the CRTC on December 23, 2010.and was finalized in February 2011, ending Milestone's foray into radio ownership.That same year,CKFG-FM- on-air as "G98.7", founded byFitzroy Gordon,was launched that October.

Two years later, CFXJ was resold to Newcap Radio as Bell Media acquired the assets of Astral Media. The station, now owned byStingray Radio,was rebranded to "93.5 Today Radio" in February 2022, whilist CKFG was relaunched as "Flow 98.7" by new owners CINA Radio Group, who acquired the station in 2021.