CFIN-FM is a defunct

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Coaticook Coaticook () is a town on the Coaticook River in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Coaticook Regional County Municipality, and its southern border is also the Canada–United States border. In addition to the primary community ...

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. In 1982, Coaticook FM Inc.'s application for a new FM station was denied. The station reapplied the same year to broadcast at 104.5

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( FM) with power of 710 watts and received CRTC approval in November 1982. The CFIN

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was assigned in February 1983 and signed on in October later that same year. CFIN received approval to decrease power from 710 to 450 watts in 1984. In 1986, the station received a short-term one year licence renewal. The commission denied the renewal application a year later. On July 4, 1987, CFIN-FM broadcasting at 104.5 MHz with 450 watts left the air for good, due to financial and non-compliance difficulties. Radio CFIN Inc. applied to reopen the station but denied the application in 1988. The CFIN callsign now belongs to a radio station in

Lac-Etchemin, Quebec Lac-Etchemin is a municipality in and the seat of the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 4,028 as of 2021. It takes its name from Etchemin Lake ...

. The 104.5 MHz frequency would be reallocated to nearby

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 count ...

, in which it would later be used by

CJTS-FM CJTS-FM was a French language, French-language Canada, Canadian radio station located in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Owned and operated by Cogeco, it broadcast on 104.5 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 9,200 wa ...

; that station would cease operations on December 6, 2011.Cogeco press release: "CJTS-FM to close its doors", December 6, 2011.

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