CKLX-FM (91.9 MHz) is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. Owned and operated by RNC Media, it airs a sports talk format as flagship station of RNC's BPM Sports network. It is the French-language flagship station of CF Montreal of Major League Soccer and the Laval Rocket of the American Hockey League. CKLX-FM's studios are located on West Laurier Avenue in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood of Montreal. Its transmitter, located atop Mount Royal, uses a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 1,780 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 4,675 watts (Class B1). It also is heard nationally on Channel 978 on the Bell Satellite TV radio station lineup. History The station first signed on in 2004. It had a smooth jazz format. From December 2004 until August 2012, it called itself Couleur Jazz before being re-branded as Planète Jazz 91,9 in the summer of 2008. On 13 January 2012, RNC Media applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to amend its licence conditions to allow 50% of its programming to be spoken-word and talk programming, with the remainder being its existing smooth jazz format (though its license also included other forms of jazz) as well as blues and additional special interest music genres. Its application hinted that the station would take a direction more towards its Quebec City sister station, CHOI-FM. On 20 August 2012, CKLX-FM flipped to the new CHOI Radio X format, sharing the branding with its sister station. The station primarily aired talk radio programming, but aired music programming during certain dayparts to remain in compliance with its license at the time. These included blocks of jazz programming on evening and weekend mornings, and rock music programming on weekends under the name La Garage. The hybrid format remained in effect pending CRTC approval to allow CKLX-FM to switch to a mainly spoken-word format. The station's first effort to gain approval was denied by the CRTC on March 14, 2013. On April 8, 2014, the CRTC approved CKLX's request to discard its music requirements as part of its license renewal, in exchange for a requirement to carry a minimum of 50% spoken word and talk programming. While CKLX's new license took effect on September 1, 2014, the format change went into effect immediately. On 9 September 2014, the station rebranded as Radio 9, heralding a new lineup including