CJFM on 95.9 MHz. was one of four FM stations which came on the air in 1962 using common transmitting facilities on the new Mount Royal tower. The other stations were CFQR (92.5) replacing CFCF-FM on 106.5, CKMF (94.3) and CHOM (originally CKGM-FM) on 97.7. Although the station was owned by Montreal's AM station CJAD (800) and originally intended to sign as CJAD-FM, it signed on with the CJFM call and separate programming - an innovation at the time. "CJFM 96" or "FM 96" had an album-oriented rock, pop and variety format throughout the 1980s.
On December 4, 2008, Astral announced that CJFM, as with sister stations in Ottawa and Vancouver, would be rebranded as a Virgin Radio station effective January 12th, 2009.[1][2] This is in addition to an existing Virgin Radio station in Toronto. CJFM will keep its hot AC format.