On November 13, 2009, at 3 p.m., CING switched formats to classic hits, branded as "Vinyl 95.3". The final song on "Country" was "The Dance" by Garth Brooks, while the first song on "Vinyl" was "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones. The station's playlist featured the greatest hits of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and was considered to be the first oldies/classic hits station in the Greater Toronto Area on FM after the CRTC permitted the oldies format to be heard full-time on FM for the first time. Locally, the station competed against AM station CKOC; after Christmas of that year, the station also competed against adult hits station CHBM-FM in Toronto, which lost their oldies outlet on CHUM, which flipped to a simulcast of CP24 in March of that year.