CKTY-FM

CKTY-FM (99.5 MHz) is a radio station in Truro, Nova Scotia. Owned by the Maritime Broadcasting System, it broadcasts a country format branded as Cat Country 99.5.

CKTY-FM

Truro, Nova Scotia
Broadcast area	Truro
Frequency	99.5 MHz (FM)
Branding	Cat Country 99.5
Programming
Format	Country
Ownership
Owner	Maritime Broadcasting System
Sister stations	CKTO-FM
History
First air date	September 10, 1947 as CKCL
Former frequencies	1400 kHz (AM) (1947–1956) 600 kHz (1956–2001)
Call sign meaning	"Cat Country"
Technical information
Class	B
ERP	16,750 watts

History

The station has been on the air since September 10, 1947. It originally broadcast at 1400 AM as CKCL then to 600 in 1956, and received CRTC approval to move to 99.5 FM in 2001 after shutting down the AM 600 frequency.^[1]

CKTY was formerly the callsign of a now-defunct AM radio station in Sarnia, Ontario, which moved to the FM dial and is now CHKS-FM. CKCL was also a former callsign of a radio station in Toronto, Ontario in the 1920s.^[2]

On July 5, 2013, CKTY and sister station CKTO-FM were acquired by Bell Media as part of their acquisition of Astral Media. On May 28, 2019, the station was renamed Pure Country 99.5 as part of a nationwide rebranding of all Bell Media country stations.^[3]

On February 8, 2024, Bell announced that it would sell five of its stations in Atlantic Canada to Maritime Broadcasting System, as part of a corporate restructuring.^[4] The CRTC approved the sale on December 20, 2024,^[5] and the station relaunched its heritage Cat Country branding on April 8, 2025.^[6]