CBL-FM (94.1

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) is the

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of the

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network. It is a

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station, licensed to

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, and is owned by the

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. CBL-FM's studios and offices are located at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, on Front Street West, while its

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is located atop the CN Tower.

History

CBL-FM was launched on October 7, 1946, with the callsign VE9EV, as an FM

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for 740 CBL. It was the corporation's second FM station behind VE9CB in

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(now

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). In 1947, its callsign was changed to CBC-FM. The station originally broadcast at 99.1 MHz, but moved to 94.1 in 1966. (The 99.1 frequency was vacant until 1977, when it was assigned to the CKO

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network. CKO ceased operations in 1989, and the frequency was again vacant until it was assigned to

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, co-owned with CBL-FM.) As part of an 18-month trial for a nationwide FM network, CBC-FM began airing separate programming in 1960, playing mostly

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along with the corporation's other English-language FM stations (

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Montreal and

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). CBC-FM returned to simulcasting CBL in 1962, but resumed separate programming again in 1964. The station was renamed CBL-FM in 1968. The FM network was rebranded ''CBC Stereo'' on November 3, 1975, ''CBC Radio Two'' in 1997 and ''CBC Music'' in 2018, as it shifted away from mostly classical music, to a mix of adult album alternative, classical,

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and other genres.

Rebroadcasters

On February 15, 1979, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate a new FM transmitter in Belleville on 94.3 MHz (CBBB-FM) and on May 7, 1979, the CRTC also approved the CBC's application to operate a new FM transmitter in Brockville on 104.9 MHz (CBBA-FM), to rebroadcast the programming originating from CBL-FM Toronto. Neither of these transmitters in Belleville and Brockville were implemented and the frequencies were awarded to other broadcasters. In 1979, CBBK-FM began broadcasting at 92.9 MHz in Kingston. In 1983, a rebroadcaster was added at Peterborough operating at 103.9 MHz as CBBP-FM. CBL-FM www.broadcasting-history.ca On June 28, 2005, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to change the frequency of its transmitter CBL-FM-1 104.7 to 106.9 MHz (channel 295C1). This change of frequency was to eliminate significant interference with a local radio station CFBK-FM operating at 105.5 MHz in Huntsville.

References

External links

CBC Toronto
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