CJRM-FM was a French-language

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located in

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. It opened on September 30, 1965 and closed on June 24, 1968 due to financial difficulties. The station broadcast on 98.5 MHz with an

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of 100,000

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s using an omnidirectional antenna ( class C1). It had a classical music

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. Licensed as one of the first standalone FM stations in Canada, the station's budget was so tight that it had only four employees (which was unusual at the time for a radio station), and it relied entirely on newspapers as a source for news bulletins. The station was plagued with serious technical and financial difficulties; listeners received the station with indifference. One consequence of the failure of CJRM-FM to succeed with its classical music format was that the

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(CRTC) rejected for decades new applications to open a private classical music station in Montreal.Suzanne Colpron. "Une licence pour imprimer de l'argent", ''La Presse'', September 28, 1996. When the CRTC finally gave Jean-Pierre Coallier permission to open CJPX-FM in 1997, that station would turn out to be a success. The 98.5 MHz frequency was reactivated in the Montreal area on April 9, 1977, when CIEL-FM (now CHMP-FM) went on the air.

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