CBHA-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the
CBC Radio One
CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial-free and offers local and national programming. It is available on AM and FM to 98 percent of Ca ...
affiliate in
Halifax,
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Most of the population are native Eng ...
, broadcasting at 90.5
MHz
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. It is the flagship CBC Radio One station for the
Maritime provinces
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. CBHA's studios are located on 7067 Chebucto Road in Halifax, while its transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive in
Clayton Park.
History
The station was launched in 1944 on 1240 AM with the call sign CBH. Prior to its launch, CBC Radio programming aired on private affiliate
CHNS and its shortwave relay CHNX 6.13 MHz (in the 49m band). CBH's initial power was only 100 watts and remained at that level for 18 years. In 1947, the station moved to the
CBC Radio Building at 5600 Sackville Street. In 1948, the frequency was changed to 1330, and then to 1340 in 1960. In 1963, the station moved to 860 and boosted its power to 10,000 watts.
However, CBH had to conform its nighttime signal to protect
clear-channel
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sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
CJBC in
Toronto
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, rendering it practically unlistenable at night in some parts of Halifax. To solve this problem, an FM rebroadcaster, CBHA-FM, was established on 90.5 FM in 1977. While it was only intended to be temporary, the CBC was unable to obtain the funding necessary to upgrade CBH's AM signal. On October 1, 1989, the AM station was shut down, and CBHA became the main CBC station in Halifax.
Local programming
The station's
local programs
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are ''
Information Morning
Information Morning is CBC Radio One's local morning show program for mainland Nova Scotia. It is produced out of the studios of CBHA-FM in Halifax and is simulcast on all CBC Radio One transmitters on mainland Nova Scotia.
History
''Informati ...
'' and ''Main Street'', hosted by
Jeff Douglas
Jeffrey Lloyd Douglas (born June 8, 1971) is a Canadian actor and broadcaster, best known as the cohost of CBC Radio One's daily news program ''As It Happens'' from 2011 to 2019. He has hosted the mainland Nova Scotia afternoon show "Mainstreet" s ...
, in the afternoon. Additionally, it produces several programs that air across the Maritimes, including the weekday noon-hour regional program ''
Maritime Noon'' and the regional weekend programs ''Weekend Mornings'', ''Maritime Magazine'', ''Atlantic Airwaves'' and ''Maritime Connection''.
Shows are produced at studios in the
CBC Radio Building at the intersection of Bell Road, Sackville Street, and South Park Street in Halifax. The station serves the Nova Scotia mainland through a network of rebroadcast
transmitter
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s, whose schedule is identical to the signal out of Halifax, with the exception of a regional program weekday afternoons from 3:00 to 4:00. The main transmitter in Halifax, as well as the rebroadcaster in Sheet Harbour, air an additional hour of "Main Street" during this time.
Transmitters
On December 10, 2018, the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
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(CRTC) approved the CBC's application to operate a new FM transmitter in Digby at 107.1 MHz (channel 296A) with an effective radiated power of 420 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 256.6 metres). The callsign for the new FM transmitter at Digby is CBHA-FM-1 and rebroadcasts the programming of CBHA.
Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2018-456
CBHA-FM Halifax – New transmitter in Digby, ''CRTC'', December 10, 2018
References
External links
CBC Nova Scotia
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Radio stations established in 1944
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