CFGN-FM is an FM radio station in

Port aux Basques Channel-Port aux Basques is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of Newfoundland fronting on the western end of the Cabot Strait. A Marine Atlantic ferry terminal is located in the town which is the primary entry point onto the island of Newfoun ...

Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota ...

, broadcasting at 96.7

MHz The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second. The hertz is an SI derived unit whose expression in terms of SI base units is s−1, meaning that one h ...

. Originally launched as a repeater on August 7, 1971 at 1230

kHz The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second. The hertz is an SI derived unit whose expression in terms of SI base units is s−1, meaning that one h ...

, it opened its own studios in 1973. In 1996, it became a repeater of

CFSX CFSX is an AM broadcasting, AM radio station in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, broadcasting at 870 Hertz, kHz. Originally launched as a repeater on November 13, 1964, it opened its own stu ...

. The station is owned by

Stingray Group Stingray Group Inc. (formerly Stingray Digital and Stingray Digital Group) is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment company based in Montreal, Quebec, with offices in the United States, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, ...

. CFGN carries the entire VOCM lineup except for a block of programming from

CFCB CFCB (570 kHz) is an AM radio station in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It broadcasts at a power of 10,000 watts by day and 1,000 watts at night. Owned by Stingray Group, CFCB first went on the air on October 3, 1960. The statio ...

on weekday mornings and for a six-hour block on Saturday mornings. CFGN also has a repeater in St. Andrew's, CFCV-FM at 97.7 MHz. On April 2, 2001, the sale of Humber Valley Broadcasting Co. Ltd. to Newcap Inc. was approved. This included CFGN and other radio stations such as: *

Corner Brook *CFDL-FM Deer Lake *CFNW Port-aux-Choix *CFNN-FM St. Anthony *CFSX Stephenville *CFCV-FM St. Andrew's * CFLN Goose Bay *CFLW Wabush *CFLC-FM Churchill Falls On October 13, 2016, Newcap applied to convert CFGN to 96.7 FM.2016-1079-1
/ref> The move was completed on November 1, 2017, and the old AM transmitter was shut down.

References

External links

NewCap Radio - CFGN information
* * FGN FGN FGN {{Newfoundland-radio-station-stub