CIEL-FM is a

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located in Rivière-du-Loup,

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. Owned and operated by Radio CJFP (1986) ltée (part of the

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), it broadcasts on 103.7

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with an

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of 60,000

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s using an omnidirectional antenna ( class C). The station has an

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under the ''CIEL'' branding. However, the station has some

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programming, during weekends. The station was originally known as CJFP and went on the air on April 13, 1947 Larouche, Marc. "CJFP devient CIEL-FM", Le Soleil, May 7, 2001, pg. A-4. as an AM station broadcasting on 1400

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. From 1984 until the station's move to FM in 1994, it was one of the few AM stations authorized to increase its power at night, due to

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amendments which authorized all stations on "graveyard" ( class C) channels to quadruple their nighttime power. CJFP actually became the most powerful station in all of

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among those stations, as it was authorized to broadcast with 10,000 watts during the day and 20,000 watts (directional) at night; however, this did not actually result in good coverage at night due to massive co-channel interference.Decision CRTC 94-736
/ref> The FM signal went on the air on December 15, 1994 and the AM signal went off the air in June 1995. Because the station already had an FM

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, namely CIBM-FM (at the time,

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(CRTC) regulations generally forbade broadcasters to operate more than one AM station and one FM station per market), CJFP-FM originally operated under a condition of licence which required at least half of the programming to be "spoken-word programming" (i.e.,

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). As such, CJFP-FM became the first privately owned French-language FM station to broadcast mainly talk programming; most of that talk programming came from the Radiomédia network. The station abandoned most of its talk programming, adopting a full-time

format, and changed its

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to CIEL-FM, effective September 1, 2001. That call sign was used, until August 2000, on a Montreal-area station now known as

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, which coincidentally now has a talk format.

Transmitters

CIEL-FM-1 went on the air when CJFP moved to FM. CIEL-FM-3 replaced CJAF in 1996, and CIEL-FM-5 went on the air in 2001. Another rebroadcaster, CHRT 1450 in Pohénégamook, was shut down when the station's main FM signal was implemented. There is a station in

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which uses the call sign CIEL-FM-4 (formerly CJTF-FM), but since 1997 it is no longer a rebroadcaster of CIEL.Decision CRTC 97-114
renewed under its new call sign i

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References

External links

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ciel-Fm Iel Iel Mass media in Rivière-du-Loup Iel Iel Radio stations established in 1947 1947 establishments in Quebec