Smashing up cars has become a familiar and long-lasting tradition on May 2-4 weekend in Dresden. This year will be no different. This Sunday, May 20, at 1 pm the tires will squeal, engines will roar, mud will fly and it’s safe to say 99.9% of the vehicles on the track will not look the [...]
Congrats to our 2 XS New Artists of the Month – LINDI ORTEGA and MARCIO NOVELLI! With an unbelievable 1.8 MILLION and 1.6 MILLION votes each, Lindi and Marcio shattered all previous vote records in the history of 99.1 CKXS! This month showcased a lot of real talent we expect to hear a lot more [...]
Jay Smith has recently learned age is starting to catch up with him and one of our 99.1 young bucks now needs reading glasses while working at the computers in the CKXS studio. Jay has decided to team up with Holland Accu-Optical, King Street in downtown Chatham and is letting YOU (with some pressure from [...]
Our next 99.1 live broadcast is Monday, February 6 in Wallaceburg as the Lakers host the Essex 73′s! Our own Gary Patterson, Aaron Hall, Chris Prince and Jay Smith will join you live from our local barns for select Wallaceburg Lakers and Dresden Jr. Kings games throughout the regular season, with extended coverage for the playoffs. The XS [...]
BY: JAY SMITH The countdown is on. The world’s best baseball pitcher outside of Major League Baseball is ready to flirt with that oh-so-expensive Cinderella glass slipper. And when I say expensive, Yu Darvish will put our wives’ combined Christmas shopping sprees to shame. For years, Major League Baseball scouts have “eww’d and aww’d” at [...]
BY: JAY SMITH Is the hype finally for real? Toronto Blue Jays fans have felt this before. Hope. Turning the page. Taking the next step. Fielding a competitive baseball team. Yes, even within the mighty AL East. Time after time, as sure as Toronto will see snowfall in the brunt of winter, the candle has [...]
Well, it seemed like a good idea… At the start of the baseball season, Jay was rather optimistic about his Blue Jays making a difference this year. So optimistic that he let it slide to Greg (a devout Detroit Tigers fan) that he thought the Jays may challenge the Motor City Kitties and could come [...]
UPDATE: WE’RE BACK TO FULL POWER AS OF 5 PM TUESDAY! THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE, CONCERN AND PATIENCE! We may be sounding a little different in your radio today. During a brief storm that hit the Wallaceburg area yesterday, what we believe was a lightning strike hit our tower and dismantled our on [...]
Local hockey is back and 99.1 CKXS will be there at centre ice, ready for all of the action when the puck drops this Friday night in Dresden as the Jr. Kings battle the Wallaceburg Lakers! Our own Gary Patterson, Chris Prince and Jay Smith will join you live from our local barns for select [...]
C-K’s Andy Fantuz cut by Chicago Bears Story courtesy of IAN KENNEDY and the CHATHAM-KENT SPORTS NETWORK (CKSN.ca) After making a bid to jump to the NFL with the Chicago Bears, Chatham, Ontario’s Andy Fantuz has been cut by the Bears. Fantuz, last year’s Most Outstanding Canadian with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, was signed to [...]
