CIEL-FM-4 is a

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located in

Trois-Pistoles Trois-Pistoles () is a city in Les Basques Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is also the county seat. The town is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. A ferry crosses the rive ...

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. The station airs a mix of locally produced programming and simulcasting of

CIEL-FM CIEL-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec. Owned and operated by Radio CJFP (1986) ltée (part of the Groupe Radio Simard), it broadcasts on 103.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 60,000 wa ...

Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city (Quebec), city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the Judicial districts of Quebec ...

. Owned and operated by Radio CJFP (1986) ltée, which is part of

Groupe Radio Simard Groupe Radio Simard is a Canadian radio broadcasting company, which owns eight radio stations in the Bas-Saint-Laurent, Chaudière-Appalaches and Côte-Nord regions of Quebec. The company's headquarters is in Rivière-du-Loup. Stations * La Pocat ...

, the station broadcasts on 93.9

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of 229

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s using an

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( class A1). It features an

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under the ''CIEL'' branding.

History

The station's roots date back to 1970, when CIEL's AM predecessor CJFP was authorized by the

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to add some programming from a studio in Trois-Pistoles to the main AM signal originating in Rivière-du-Loup. However, because the AM signal failed to adequately serve Trois-Pistoles at nighttime, an FM rebroadcaster with the call sign CJTF-FM was added in 1985. This transmitter was deleted from CJFP's license in 1997, becoming a separate station with a license commitment to air at least 10 hours per week of distinct programming at Trois-Pistoles. The station adopted its current call sign in 2001, at the same time CJFP became CIEL-FM.Decision CRTC 2001-406
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