CITE-FM (107.3
MHz
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) is a
French-language Canadian
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radio station
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located in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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. Owned and operated by
Bell Media
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Establishment (2011–13)
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, it airs an
adult contemporary
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format
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. It is also the
flagship station of the "
Rouge FM
Rouge FM is a network of French-language adult contemporary radio stations broadcasting throughout Quebec, Canada. Established in 1990 as RockDétente, they are owned by Bell Media.
All "Rouge FM" stations broadcast in the same markets as Bell's ...
" network, which operates across Quebec and in the
Ottawa-
Gatineau radio market
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. The
studios and offices are located at the Bell Media building at 1717
Rene-Levesque Boulevard East in
Downtown Montreal.
CITE-FM has an
effective radiated power
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(ERP) of 42,900
watt
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s, using an
omnidirectional antenna
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from the
Mount Royal
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candelabra tower. It broadcasts in the
HD Radio hybrid format.
History
Radio-Cité (1977-1990)
CITE-FM
signed on
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the air on May 7,
1977
Events January
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as a
sister station to 730
CKAC, owned by
Telemedia
Telemedia was a Canadian media company, which had holdings in radio, television and magazine publishing.
The company was launched in 1968 by Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien, when he purchased CKAC in Montreal from Power Corporation of Canada. CKA ...
. While it was still being approved and built, the station was called CKAC-FM. But when it reached the airwaves, the
call sign
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changed to CITE-FM. The previous year, a co-owned FM station in
Sherbrooke
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at 102.7 began using the call letters CITE-FM. But when 107.3 in Montreal went on the air, the Sherbrooke station became CITE-FM-1. That call sign implies the Sherbrooke station is a rebroadcaster of the Montreal station. While the musical
playlist was the same, CITE-FM-1 had local announcers and commercials. With the Sherbrooke station's powerful signal, it can easily be heard in much of Montreal and its suburbs. Telemedia may have wanted the call letters to be so similar that CITE-FM would get credit in the ratings if a listener in the Montreal market was tuned to CITE-FM-1. To this day, CITE-FM-1
simulcast
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s some programming from Montreal but has its own commercials and some local
DJs.
Telemedia originally planned CITE-FM to be on 93.5 MHz, but the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) changed that. Telemedia was told to use 107.3 instead, as the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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(CBC) had targeted 93.5 MHz as a reserved frequency and rushed to move
CBM-FM from to 93.5 in 1976.
CITE-FM aired a
beautiful music
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format as ''Radio-Cité''. It played instrumental
cover version
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s of popular songs, along with some French and English
middle of the road (MOR) vocals. Over time, to attract younger listeners, the number of vocals was increased while the instrumental music was scaled back.
Rock-Détente (1990-2011)
In 1990, CITE-FM completed its move from instrumental to vocal music, switching to a
soft adult contemporary
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format. "Radio-Cité" was renamed ''Cité Rock-Détente''. Telemedia's radio stations in
Quebec
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and the
Maritimes were purchased in 2002 by
Astral Media. CITE-FM became the
sister station of Astral's
CKMF-FM
CKMF-FM (94.3 MHz) is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, owned and operated by Bell Media. The station airs a mainstream rock format and is the flagship station of the "Énergie" network, which operates acros ...
. Because of federal competition laws, Astral Media was not permitted to keep 730 CKAC. Following the transaction, CITE-FM left the CKAC building that was on the corner of
Sainte-Catherine Street
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and
Peel Street, relocating to CKMF's building at the corner of
René Lévesque Boulevard
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and
Papineau Avenue
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.
In 2004, Astral revamped the Rock Détente network with a new logo. This resulted in Cité Rock-Détente being renamed as simply "107,3 RockDétente." The station no longer uses its call letters on the air, except when required by CRTC regulations.
Rouge FM (2011-present)
![CITE-FM (107,3 Rouge FM) Billboard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/CITE-FM_%28107%2C3_Rouge_FM%29_Billboard.jpg)
On August 18, 2011, at 4:00 p.m.
EDT, the station ended its 21-year run with the "RockDétente" branding. All "RockDétente" stations, including CITE, were rebranded as ''
Rouge FM
Rouge FM is a network of French-language adult contemporary radio stations broadcasting throughout Quebec, Canada. Established in 1990 as RockDétente, they are owned by Bell Media.
All "Rouge FM" stations broadcast in the same markets as Bell's ...
''.
The last song under "RockDétente" was "
Pour que tu m'aimes encore
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" by
Celine Dion
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, followed by a tribute to RockDétente's 23-year history. The first song under "Rouge" was "
I Gotta Feeling
"I Gotta Feeling" is a song recorded by American group the Black Eyed Peas for their fifth studio album '' The E.N.D.'' (2009). It was written by the group members with the song's producers David Guetta and Frédéric Riesterer. The song was re ...
" by
Black Eyed Peas.
Transmitters
The following stations are known rebroadcasters of CITE-FM:
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CITE-FM-1
CITE-FM-1 is a French-language radio station located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Owned and operated by Bell Media, it broadcasts on 102.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 92,000 watts ( class C1) using an omnidirectional antenna on M ...
, a Rouge FM station in Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ...
, is not a rebroadcaster, but a separate station, despite the call sign suggesting otherwise. CITE-FM-2, also serving Sherbrooke, is a low-powered repeater of CITE-FM-1.
References
External links
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