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CIRX-FM-1 (95.9 FM, ''95.9 The Goat'') is a Canadian
Prince George Broadcasting Ltd. (owner of CJCI) received a licence for a new AM station at Vanderhoof in 1973. CIVH began broadcasting on 1340 kHz later that same year. A year later in 1974, CIVH was authorized to operate a rebroadcast transmitter at
radio station
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to Vanderhoof, British Columbia
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. Owned by Vista Radio
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, it broadcasts an active rock
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format. The station formerly broadcast on AM as CIVH, but was forced to move permanently to FM in 2018 due to transmitter damage.
History
Prince George Broadcasting Ltd. (owner of CJCI) received a licence for a new AM station at Vanderhoof in 1973. CIVH began broadcasting on 1340 kHz later that same year. A year later in 1974, CIVH was authorized to operate a rebroadcast transmitter at Fort St. James
Fort St. James is a district municipality and former fur trading post in northern central British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south-eastern shore of Stuart Lake in the Omineca Country, at the northern terminus of Highway 27, which con ...
, on 1480 kHz with the call sign CIFJ. Also in 1974, CIFL was added to broadcast at 1450 kHz in Fraser Lake
Fraser Lake is a village in northern British Columbia, Canada. It's located on the southwest side of Fraser Lake between Burns Lake and Vanderhoof alongside the Yellowhead Highway.
The small community's population is primarily employed by eithe ...
.
On October 19, 1993, the station had received CRTC
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approval to convert CIFJ operating at 1480 AM to 92.7 MHz on the FM dial, although the move did not take place.
The station previously operated retransmitters, CIFJ on 1480 in Fort St. James, and CIFL on 1450 in Fraser Lake, but they were discontinued in 2017 due to transmitter equipment issues
On March 6, 2018, the station's transmitter collapsed after one of its guy-wire
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s were clipped by snow removal equipment contracted by the city of Vanderhoof. After the accident, CIVH moved its over-the-air feed to 95.9 CIRX-FM-1—the local repeater of sister station CIRX-FM
CIRX-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 94.3 FM in Prince George, British Columbia. The station airs an active rock format branded on-air as "94.3 The Goat".
The station was launched in 1983 with the call sign CIBC, and was later ch ...
—as a temporary measure. However, in August 2018, Vista Radio announced that CIVH's programming would remain on 95.9 permanently, citing that it would too costly to repair and replace the transmitter's equipment. As requested by Vista Radio, CIVH's license was returned to the CRTC on August 15, 2018.
See also
*CJCI-FM
CJCI-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 97.3 FM in Prince George, British Columbia, owned by Vista Radio. The station currently airs a country music format using its on-air brand name as Country 97 FM.
The station was launched in 197 ...
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