CIBM-FM is a

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radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

located in

Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. Its one of ...

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. Owned and operated by

Groupe Radio Simard Groupe Radio Simard is a Canadian radio broadcasting company, which owns seven radio stations in the Bas-Saint-Laurent and Chaudière-Appalaches regions of Quebec. The company's headquarters is in Rivière-du-Loup. Stations * La Pocatière - CHO ...

, it broadcasts on 107.1

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with an

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of 100,000

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s using an

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( class C). The station has a

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branded as ''FM 107''. The station rebroadcasts

CKOI-FM :For the CKOI radio network, see ''CKOI (network)''. CKOI-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Verdun, Quebec and serving the Greater Montreal area, airing a CHR/Top 40 radio format. Owned and operated by Cogeco, CKOI-FM bro ...

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from 6 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. CIBM was launched in 1966 as CHGB-FM at 102.9 FM, until it moved to its current frequency in 1982. The CIBM call sign was later adopted at an unknown date. In 1986, it was authorized to increase its

to 100,000 watts.Decision CRTC 86-773
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Rebroadcasters

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