CFBS-FM is a

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that operates at 89.9 FM in

Blanc-Sablon, Quebec Blanc-Sablon () is a municipality located on the shore of Blanc-Sablon Bay, in the Strait of Belle-Isle, Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent RCM, Côte-Nord, Quebec, Canada. The municipality is made up of the merger of the villages Lourdes-de-Blanc ...

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. Owned by Radio Blanc-Sablon, the station was licensed in 1986. The station is a member of the

Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec The Alliance des radios communautaires du Québec (ARCQ) is a Canadian organization, which serves as a coordinating body for community radio stations in Quebec.Frédéric Lesemann, Jean-Marie Gourvil and Pierre Hamel, "Les radios communautaires au Q ...

. On November 30, 2020, Radio Blanc-Sablon inc. received approval to change the station’s authorized contours by increasing the maximum effective radiated power (ERP) from 300 to 900 watts, increasing the average ERP from 178 to 900 watts, replacing the existing directional antenna with a non-directional antenna, increasing the effective height of the antenna above average terrain from 31.6 to 40.25 meters, and amending the existing coordinates of the transmitter site.

Rebroadcasters

The station also operates on the following transmitters: On October 4, 2023, the

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; ) is a public organization in Canada tasked with the mandate as a regulatory agency tribunal for various electronic communications, covering broadcasting and telecommunic ...

(CRTC) approved an application by Radio Blanc-Sablon inc. to add a new FM transmitter that will operate at 105.3 MHz in

L'Anse-au-Clair L'Anse-au-Clair is a town in the Labrador portion of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Touching the small portion of Labrador’s southern ocean, the town has a population of 219 in the 2021 census, up from 192 in 2011. It is located on Route ...

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. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2023-333
CFBS-FM Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon – New transmitter in L’Anse-au-Clair, ''CRTC'', October 4, 2023

References

External links

cfbsradio.ca

CFBS-FM
at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the

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