CBL-FM (94.1

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) is the flagship station of the CBC Music network. It is a

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station,

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, and is owned by the

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. CBL-FM's studios and offices are located at the

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, on Front Street West, while its

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is located atop the

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History

CBL-FM was launched on October 7, 1946, with the callsign VE9EV, as an FM

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for 740 CBL. It was the corporation's second FM station behind VE9CB in

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(now CBFX-FM). In 1947, its callsign was changed to CBC-FM. The station originally broadcast at 99.1 MHz, but moved to 94.1 in 1966. (The 99.1 frequency was vacant until 1977, when it was assigned to the CKO all-news radio network. CKO ceased operations in 1989, and the frequency was again vacant until it was assigned to

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, co-owned with CBL-FM.) As part of an 18-month trial for a nationwide FM network, CBC-FM began airing separate programming in 1960, playing mostly classical music along with the corporation's other English-language FM stations ( CBM-FM Montreal and CBO-FM Ottawa). CBC-FM returned to simulcasting CBL in 1962, but resumed separate programming again in 1964. The station was renamed CBL-FM in 1968. The FM network was rebranded ''CBC Stereo'' on November 3, 1975, ''CBC Radio Two'' in 1997 and ''CBC Music'' in 2018, as it shifted away from mostly classical music, to a mix of

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, classical,

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and other genres.

Rebroadcasters

On February 15, 1979, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate a new FM transmitter in Belleville on 94.3 MHz (CBBB-FM) and on May 7, 1979, the CRTC also approved the CBC's application to operate a new FM transmitter in

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on 104.9 MHz (CBBA-FM), to rebroadcast the programming originating from CBL-FM Toronto. Neither of these transmitters in Belleville and Brockville were implemented and the frequencies were awarded to other broadcasters. In 1979, CBBK-FM began broadcasting at 92.9 MHz in Kingston. In 1983, a rebroadcaster was added at Peterborough operating at 103.9 MHz as CBBP-FM. CBL-FM www.broadcasting-history.ca On June 28, 2005, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to change the frequency of its transmitter CBL-FM-1 104.7 to 106.9 MHz (channel 295C1). This change of frequency was to eliminate significant interference with a local radio station

CFBK-FM CFBK-FM is a Canadian radio station that airs at 105.5 FM in Huntsville, Ontario with an adult hits format branded as 105.5 Moose FM. CFBK began broadcasting in 1958 as CKAR on the AM band at 590 kHz with a repeater in Parry Sound known ...

operating at 105.5 MHz in Huntsville.

References

External links

CBC Toronto
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