Built right - from the ground up - great radio stations last a long time! By Marty Forbes Monday April 16, 2012 It's anniversary year in Edmonton radio. CISN FM turns thirty years old - followed a few months later by CKNG (Joe FM) which launched as CJAX FM - and then CFBR - The Bear turns a ripe twenty years old this September . Former 630 CHED 'legend' Bob McCord (and a LOCAL ownership group) took two kicks at the CRTC cat in the late 70's and early 80's for a new FM licence in Edmonton and the second application worked as they launched CISN FM in the spring of 1982. Over the years the station has been a perennial 'winner' of many industry awards, both in music and media, and has been at the top or near the top of the Edmonton for much of the past three decades. Many 'great' broadcasters came and went from the station in the past three decades and it has been sold a few times over but in 'all' cases the owners/managers/program directors realized the power of the station and the format and super served the listeners. Another benchmark for CISN is community service and there just isn't enough space in a blog like this to properly recognize the many innovative and creative ways that the station has helped in the Edmonton and Alberta rural communities. OK the tractor run to the American border a few years back deserves the Forbes Radiowise