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CIXX-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 106.9 FM in
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. It is licensed as a community-based campus radio station by the
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hits. CIXX broadcasts at an
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of 3  kW from
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's "M" building, which effectively covers the City of
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and some areas outside the city. The station is operated and programmed by students in
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's School of Contemporary Media.
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students work in on-air announcing, talk programming,
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, and promotions. News stories, full interviews,
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s, events and contests are all placed on the station's website. Journalism-Broadcast students operate under the title "XFM News" and provide newscasts for the station. These students work through three different 5-week rotations each semester. They are required to either be a
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, or Documentary Producer. On the reporting rotation students are required to attend events and conduct one-on-one interviews to help produce two local stories each day. As a Newscaster each student takes turns
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at the top of the hour mixing local, national, and international stories using Newsroom
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. As a Documentary Producer most students produce three 4-minute radio features each week. When the station was branded as ''6XFM'' during the late 1990s and early 2000s, students of the Radio Broadcasting program from
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would rotate as hosts of weekly live-to-air broadcasts from various bars and nightclubs throughout the City of
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Notes

Fanshawe College also operates three other radio stations: *CFRL Radio *The Falcon www.thefalcon.ca
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