CIQC-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a hot

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

format at 99.7 FM in Campbell River,

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. The station was originally known as The River with an

format before rebranding as 99.7 2day FM and is owned by

Vista Radio Vista Radio Ltd. (also formerly known as Vista Broadcast Group) is a Canadian radio broadcasting company. The company only owned stations in British Columbia until 2007, when it expanded outside the province by acquiring an existing station in Ye ...

. The station originally began broadcasting at 1490 AM in 1963, with the call sign CFWB. On August 30, 2007, the

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; french: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes, links=) is a public organization in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasti ...

(CRTC) partially approved an application by

Vista Broadcast Group Vista Radio Ltd. (also formerly known as Vista Broadcast Group) is a Canadian radio broadcasting company. The company only owned stations in British Columbia until 2007, when it expanded outside the province by acquiring an existing station in Ye ...

to convert the station to the FM band but required the station to choose a different frequency than it had originally applied for. The station subsequently applied for the 99.7 frequency, which was approved on March 19, 2008.Decision CRTC 2008-64
/ref> On December 10, 2008, CFWB moved from the AM band to the FM band and rebranded itself as The River. CFWB's callsign was changed to CIQC-FM on the same day. In the summer of 2014, the station rebranded as 2DAY FM, with a

hot adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet ...

format. In September 2021, the station rebranded back to The River.

Rebroadcasters

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Former Logo

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99.7 The River
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