CFIX-FM is a French-language

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located in Saguenay,

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. Its studios are located at Rue Racine Est (co-located with sister stations

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and

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owned-and-operated station

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) in the former city of

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. Owned and operated by

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, it broadcasts on 96.9

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using a directional antenna with an maximum

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of 100,000

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s ( class C). The station's transmitter is located at Mount Valin. The station has an

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format and is part of the "

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" network which operates across Quebec and

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. The station received

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approval in 1986.Decision CRTC 86-1042
/ref> CFIX started operations on July 31, 1987 as a sister station to the now-defunct CJMT 1420 with a

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format. The latter closed on September 30, 1994 when the Télémédia network and the Radiomutuel network merged to form the Radiomédia (now

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) network. Up until 1992, CFIX had a

format. The station switched to

and became part of the "RockDétente" network as the station was renamed ''CFIX Rock-Détente''. In 2004, Astral Media revamped the Rock Détente network with a new logo. This resulted in ''CFIX Rock-Détente'' being renamed to simply ''96,9 Rock Détente''. As such, the station no longer publicly uses its callsign (although the callsign was resurrected on the station ID in 2011). On August 18, 2011, at 4:00 p.m. EDT, all "RockDétente" stations, including CFIX, rebranded as ''

''. CFIX was formerly the callsign of a now-defunct AM radio station at 1170 kHz out of

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until 1983 when the station went dark due to technical and financial problems.

References

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96,9 Rouge
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