CBAL-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts SRC's

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network at 98.3 FM in

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. The station went on the air as CBAF-FM on April 15, 1983. For a long time, it was the only station in Radio-Canada's FM service that didn't serve any portion of

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. It adopted its current

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in 1989 after Radio-Canada AM outlet

CBAF CBAF-FM (88.5 MHz) is a French-language public Canadian radio station located in Moncton, New Brunswick. The station has a commercial-free news/talk format and is the flagship station of the Ici Radio-Canada Première network for Atlantic Canad ...

moved to the FM band and picked up the

CBAF-FM CBAF-FM (88.5 MHz) is a French-language public Canadian radio station located in Moncton, New Brunswick. The station has a commercial-free news/talk format and is the flagship station of the Ici Radio-Canada Première network for Atlantic Cana ...

call letters.

Rebroadcasters

On February 2, 2006, the

CRTC The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; french: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes, links=) is a public organization in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasti ...

approved the CBC's application to decrease CBAL's effective radiated power from 77,000 watts to 67,600 watts and by increasing the antenna height.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2006-26
CBAL-FM Moncton - Technical change, ''CRTC'', February 2, 2006

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