In an announcement made in 2007, the historic CHWK call letters were planned to be brought back by Manitoba-based Golden West Broadcasting, which had applied to the CRTC for a licence for an FM station in Chilliwack, to operate on 89.5 FM if the application was successful. The application by Golden West Broadcasting was denied by the CRTC on May 30, 2008 in favor of an application by Radio CJVR Ltd. (later called Fabmar Communications Ltd., the owner of Melfort, Saskatchewan station CJVR-FM, since acquired by the Jim Pattison Group), which began using the CHWK calls for its new station when it went on the air with a test signal on February 11, 2009, then officially launched on Friday, February 20 at 12:05pm.