CIMF-FM (94.9

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) is a

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Canadian

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, and serving the National Capital Region, including

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. It has an

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format and is part of

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network which operates across Quebec and

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. The

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s and offices are in Gatineau at 215 Boulevard Saint-Joseph in the same building as co-owned 104.1

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, part of the

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radio network. CIMF-FM has an

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(ERP) of 84,000

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s. It is a Class C1 station using an

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located in

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, within

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History

Beautiful Music

The station

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the air on January 1, 1970. Its original

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was CKCH-FM as the

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to the now-defunct CKCH 970 AM. The AM station went silent on September 30, 1994, when the "

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" and "Radiomutuel" networks merged to form the " Radiomédia" network (now "

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"). CKCH-FM, and later CIMF-FM, had a beautiful music format for its first 20 years, playing mostly instrumental

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s of popular hits. Over time, to stay contemporary, it added more soft vocals. The station switched to

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in 1990 and the station was renamed ''CIMF Rock-Détente''.

Rock Détente

In 2004, Astral Media revamped the Rock Détente network with a new logo. This resulted in CIMF Rock-Détente being renamed to simply ''94,9 RockDétente''. As such, the station no longer publicly uses its

(although the call letters were brought back as

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in 2011).

Rouge FM

On August 18, 2011, at 4 p.m., the station ended its 21-year run with the "RockDétente" branding. All "RockDétente" stations, including CIMF, rebranded as ''

''. The last song under "RockDétente" was "

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" by

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, followed by a tribute of the branding. The first song under "Rouge" was "

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" by

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Transmitters

On October 31, 2000, Télémédia Radio was denied a licence to add a new FM transmitter to operate on 107.7 MHz at Hawkesbury,

. Since 2001, the station operated a relay transmitter in Hawkesbury, Ontario, approximately 100 kilometres east of Ottawa/Gatineau. This results from a deal between Telemedia (which then owned CIMF-FM) and

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to allow the latter to raise the power of

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95.1 MHz in

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from 17,030 to 100,000 watts. The relay, CIMF-FM-1 in Hawkesbury, operates on 88.9 MHz using a

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with an average

of 759

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Approval of technical parameters, ''CRTC'', April 30, 2001

References

External links

94,9 Rouge

CIMF-FM
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