CJRS was a

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which operated at 1510

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on the AM band in

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History

The station was founded in 1965 by A. Raymond Crepault, owner of

CJMS CJMS was a French language radio station located in Saint-Constant, Quebec, Saint-Constant, Quebec, Canada, a suburb of Montreal. It broadcast on 1040 kHz with a daytime power of 10,000 watts and a nighttime power of 5,000 watts as a List of Nort ...

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. CJRS (the "RS" stood for Radio Sherbrooke) commenced broadcasting in August 1967. Its broadcast parameters are currently unknown, though its coverage was restricted at night to protect Class-A clear-channel station

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. Over the years, the station went through different formats, owners and technical upgrades. In 1991, CJRS applied to the

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for permission to discontinue local programming in favour of carrying only programming produced for the parent Radiomutuel network, or programs originating from CJMS through December 1992. In 1993, the CRTC approved an extension of this arrangement through August 31, 1995; however, as it no longer produced local programming, CJRS was banned from selling advertising in the Sherbrooke area.

Closure

On September 30, 1994,

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and Radiomutuel merged their AM operations because they could no longer afford to compete with each other. As a result, they closed CJRS, along with CJMS Montreal,

CJRP ''For the radio station in Saint John, New Brunswick, see CJRP-FM.'' CJRP was a French-language Canadian radio station located in Quebec City, Quebec. It operated from 1959 to 1994. The station broadcast on 1060 kHz, using a daytime power of 50 ...

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, CJMT

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, CJTR Trois-Rivieres and CKCH

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. All six stations left the air on this date and the licences were turned in to the CRTC, which revoked the licences on November 2, 1994.Decision CRTC 94-845
Revocation of CJRS Sherbrooke, Quebec, November 2, 1994

References

External links

CJRS-AM
at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the

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History

Closure

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