CKVB-FM (''Bay of Islands Radio'') is a Canadian

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. The station broadcasts a

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format at 100.1 FM in

Corner Brook Corner Brook ( 2021 population: 19,333 CA 29,762) is a city located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Corner Brook is the fifth largest settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador. ...

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. Since 2011, Bay of Islands Radio has maintained a full-time internet stream, broadcasting programs from a wide variety of topics and music genres produced by its volunteers. The station also broadcasts many local events that are of interest to the public, such as the bi-weekly live broadcast of Corner Brook City Council. The station is registered as a non-profit organization, and is operated entirely by volunteers from the surrounding communities of the Bay of Islands. The station was founded in partnership with the Grenfell Campus Student Union (GCSU) and

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, and was operated on the premises of

Memorial University Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN (), is a public university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, elsewhere in Newfoundland and ...

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until January 2015; it moved to a new facility on Brook Street at this time, which was donated by the City of Corner Brook. On February 12, 2016, the station submitted an application to the

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for a license to operate a low power FM community radio station. The license approval was issued on October 6, 2016. On November 5, 2017, the station launched its new broadcast signal on 100.1 FM in the Corner Brook area. Its transmitter is located in the Humber Heights area of Corner Brook. The new signal reaches as far as

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and Frenchman's Cove to the west, Little Rapids to the east, and Logger's School Road to the south. As of March 2022, Bay of Islands Radio is the only radio station (excluding CBC) which originates local programming from Corner Brook. On March 9, 2022,

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closed both of its local studios for

CKXX-FM CKXX-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador on 103.9 MHz with a classic rock format branded on-air as ''97.5 K-Rock''. It is currently owned by Stingray Group. History CKXX-FM launched by the not ...

and

CFCB CFCB (570 kHz) is an AM radio station in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It broadcasts at a power of 10,000 watts by day and 1,000 watts at night. Owned by Stingray Group, CFCB first went on the air on October 3, 1960. The statio ...

and replaced them with simulcast feeds of their sister stations in St. John's. These closures, along with the closures of studios in Gander on the same date, leaves the province of Newfoundland & Labrador, outside of St. John's, without any commercial radio stations. On October 17, 2022,

City Council approved the sale of a piece of land off Mayfair Avenue to Bay of Islands Radio for the purpose of constructing a new transmitter site, citing coverage issues at its current site. Corner Brook City Council Agenda - October 17, 2022
/ref> The land was sold to the station at a cost of $1.00. The location of the land is adjacent to the former transmitter site of

CHOZ-FM CHOZ-FM is a Canadian radio station based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Its main St. John's transmitter broadcasts at 94.7 MHz, with additional transmitters located throughout the island. The station, known as ''OZFM'', is one of the ...

and

CJON-DT CJON-DT (channel 21), branded on-air as NTV (short for Newfoundland Television), is an English-language independent television station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, owned by Newfoundland Broadcasting Company Ltd. The stati ...

's Corner Brook repeaters, until the tower was dismantled in 2014 following the closure of NTV's analogue television network.

References

External links

Bay of Islands RadioCKVB-FM history - Canadian Communication FoundationBOIR , NCRA

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