CHQC-FM is a

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FM community

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which broadcasts at 105.7

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. It is currently owned by C médias. Approved by the

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(CRTC) in 2004, the station, which launched in 2006, airs a

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format with programming devoted to a variety of musical genres. The station is a member of the Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada. The station's studios are located at the city's Centre Scolaire Communautaire Samuel-de-Champlain. CHQC-FM is the community radio for around 11,060 French speakers in Saint John.

History

The idea of a community radio project began around 1986. This year, radio workshops were opened to the public with the help of the Government of Quebec and the Fédération de la jeunesse canadienne-française. Subsequently, members of the Regional Association of the Francophone Community (ARCf) of Saint-Jean (called Samuel-de-Champlain Community Council at the time) started a daily French radio program with the campus-community radio of the Saint-John campus of the

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. However, the project manager left his post in 1987 and the project was abandoned. The project started again in March 1991 as a student radio. In 1999, the radio committee began to really grow the project with in-depth studies on the feasibility of the project. Daily French-language radio broadcasts were resumed on the student radio at the University of New Brunswick. In the following years, various groups were created to deal with the project and in January 2003, the Baie-de-la-Bise Co-operative was created. The co-op lobbied the government for funding to study to justify the project. They all demonstrated that it was realistic to create this new French-language media outlet in Saint-Jean. The radio obtained a broadcasting licence from CRTC the 26 Novembre 2004. The co-op had several fundraisers until the radio was broadcast on March 26, 2006. Since 2015, La Brise de la Baie ltée CHQC works in partnership with Francophone community radio stations in Fredericton,

CJPN-FM CJPN-FM is a French language, French-language radio station in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, broadcasting at 90.5 FM broadcasting, FM. The station signed on August 22, 1997, from its studios at Le Centre Communautaire Sainte-Anne (Frederict ...

and Miramichi,

CKMA-FM CKMA-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 93.7 FM broadcasting, FM in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Miramichi, New Brunswick. Currently owned by C médias, the station broadcasts a French language, French-language community radio format for ...

. This is the first resource sharing project implemented in three independent French-language community radio stations in Canada. These three radio stations share the general management, the production department, their technician, the accounting department and some of their broadcasts.Site Official website of CJPN, CHQC and CKMA
/ref> On December 19, 2022, CHQC rebranded to C105 and is now owned by C médias. On the same day, CJPN in

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, CKRH in Halifax, and CKMA in Miramichi also adopted the "C" branding from C médias.

Former logo

References

External links

C105 - C médias

CHQC-FM
at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the

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