CKCQ-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 100.3 FM in

Quesnel, British Columbia Quesnel (Kee-nel in French) is a city located in the Cariboo Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. Located nearly evenly between the cities of Prince George and Williams Lake, it is on the main route to northern British Columbia and th ...

. Owned 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 ...

, the station has a

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format and is branded as ''Cariboo Country.'' It also has a

repeater In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it. Repeaters are used to extend transmissions so that the signal can cover longer distances or be received on the other side of an obstruction. Some ...

in Williams Lake (''CKWL'', AM 570). The station was launched in 1957 by Cariboo Broadcasters on

570 AM The following radio stations broadcast on the AM frequency of 570 kHz : 570 AM is a regional broadcast frequency. Argentina * Radio Argentina in Buenos Aires Brazil * ZYH-613 in Juaziero Norte * ZYH-614 in Itapipoca * ZYH-750 in Bariri * ...

. The Williams Lake transmitter was added in 1960, and a 100 Mile House transmitter was added in 1971. The Quesnel station changed to 920 AM in 1980, and the 570 AM frequency was allocated to CKWL in Williams Lake where it remains today. In 2004, CKCQ migrated to its current FM frequency and abandoned its 920 AM frequency. The 100 Mile station,

CKBX CKBX is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 840 AM in 100 Mile House, British Columbia. Owned by Vista Broadcast Group, the station airs a country music format and is branded as Country 840 AM. History The station's license was issued ...

was converted to a stand-alone station serving 100 Mile and area exclusively in 2008. The old AM transmitter is gone and the tower serves as the mast for the FM antenna which s located on the edge of a private residence near the Pinnacles on Stubbington Road. The FM station now transmits at 100.3 MHz with an

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of 1.8

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. Vista acquired the stations from Cariboo Communications in 2005. In 2007 the radio station moved to its new location at 410 Kinchant in downtown Quesnel. The station was branded The Wolf''' but changed to ''"Cariboo Country''" in 2014.

Repeater

* Williams Lake: CKWL, 570 kHz, (1,000

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s, Class B)

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Cariboo Country FM
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