CBW-FM (98.3

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non-commercial

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, owned by the

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. The station airs the CBC Music Network, a mix of

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, classical music and other genres. Its studios are located on Portage Avenue in Downtown Winnipeg, while its

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is located on the Starbuck Communications Tower. CBW-FM is one of the most powerful radio stations in

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, with an

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(ERP) of 160,000

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s, while most FM stations run at 100,000 watts or less. (Winnipeg is also home to the most powerful station,

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at 310,000 watts.)

History

CBW-FM is Winnipeg's second FM station, signing on the air on December 10, 1962. It began as a commercial classical music station with the

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CFMW-FM (Fine Music Winnipeg). At the time it had the strongest FM signal in all of Canada at 354,000 watts, giving it a range of 200 miles. It broadcast from a studio building at 4051 Pembina Hwy. in St. Norbert, although some programming came from

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in Altona. The CBC purchased the station in 1965. CBW-FM joined the

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network at its start on November 3, 1975. Today, CBW-FM has its studios and offices at 541 Portage Avenue, along with its English-language sister stations CBW and

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Programming

CBW-FM was the originating station of the jazz program ''After Hours (radio show), After Hours'' with Ross Porter, since 1993, but the program aired its final episode on March 16, 2007. ''Tonic (radio program), Tonic'', a similarly themed program hosted from Montreal by Katie Malloch on weeknights and from Calgary by Tim Tamashiro on weekends, debuted in its place on March 19.

Transmitters

An expansion of CBW is in the works for other regions of Manitoba. Future rebroadcasters are planned for Dauphin, Manitoba, Dauphin (106.1), Flin Flon (89.7), The Pas (100.3), and Thompson, Manitoba, Thompson (90.7).

References

External links

CBC Manitoba
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