CHFO was a

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transmitting on 1350 kHz (AM) in

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. The station had a

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format.

History

On November 29, 2017, the

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(CRTC) approved an application by Radio Communautaire Francophone et Francophile de l’Outaouais to operate a new French-language community radio station in Gatineau, Quebec. The new station would operate on the AM band on 1350 kHz with a daytime transmitter power of 1,000 watts and a nighttime transmitter power of 180 watts. In February 2018, the station began on-air testing on 1350 kHz. In 2019, the station left the air permanently. CHFO 1350 in Gatineau is off the air
''Canadian Radio News/Facebook'', April 14, 2019

Notes

AM 1350 in Gatineau was previously used by CIRA-5, a rebroadcaster of

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from 2012 until it left the air in 2015.

References

External links

CHFO
at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the

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