CHEQ-FM is a

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located in

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. Owned and operated by

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(which would acquire the station from 9079-3670 Québec inc., an independent private

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), it broadcasts on 101.5

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with an

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of 26,000

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s ( class C1) using a

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. The station has an

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and it identifies itself as O 101,5. It originally went on the air as an

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and broadcast on 1360

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. The station's original

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, CJVL, was abandoned when the station moved to FM in 1998; the FM transmitter went on the air at 101.3 FM on November 29, 1998. The call sign CHEQ-FM was previously used by a station in

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, now known as

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. On August 14, 2008, the licensee proposes to change the frequency of station CHEQ-FM from 101.3 MHz (channel 267A) to 101.5 MHz (channel 268C1). The station received approval on August 19, 2009. Unknown, the station is owned by Arsenal Media, who owns a number of radio stations in Quebec. On October 28, 2019, the CRTC approved 10679313 Canada Inc. application to operate a French-language commercial FM radio programming undertaking in Sainte-Marie, Quebec. The station will operate at 105.3 MHz (channel 287A) with an average effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,159 watts (maximum ERP of 4,500 watts with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 89.3 meters). The call sign for the new 105.3 will be CKAQ-FMCanadian Radio News - Facebook
October 28, 2019 and will be a sister station to CHEQ-FM.

References

External links

www.o1015.ca (official website)
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