CBW is the

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of the

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station in

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. The station broadcasts at 990

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. CBW is a Class A

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reserved for

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under the

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allocations. CBW's studios are located on Portage Avenue in

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, while its transmitters are located near

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in Springstein. Due to the station's transmitter power and Manitoba's mostly flat land (with near-perfect ground conductivity), it reaches almost all of southern Manitoba during the day and much of the middle portion of North America at night. The station is

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on FM at 89.3

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(with a transmitter atop Bell MTS Place Main, in downtown Winnipeg).

History

An early demonstration of radio by

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took place in Winnipeg in April 1910, with extensive amateur and experimental interest after that date. Regularly scheduled broadcasting did not begin until the spring of 1922, when Lynn Salton established a private station with the call sign CKZC. Both Winnipeg daily newspapers developed their own radio stations in 1922, notably providing coverage of the 1922 Provincial election. However, the stations were found to be expensive to operate. In January 1923, the newspapers agreed to get out of the broadcasting business in favor of the government-owned station.Garry Moir, ''On the Air: the golden age of Manitoba radio'', Great Plains Publications, 2015, , pp. 19-22 The station first

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March 13, 1923 as CKY, owned and operated by the Manitoba Telephone System, with a transmitter power of 500 watts at a frequency of 665 kHz. It became a partial affiliate of the

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in 1933, and was purchased outright by the CBC in 1948. The station adopted its current call sign a few months after the CBC purchase, and the

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call sign was reassigned to a new commercial radio station in 1949. CBW was part of the ''

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'', which was the main CBC radio network, while CKRC carried programming from the '' Dominion Network'' between January 1, 1944 and 1962. The

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was originally located in

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. On February 3, 1952, a small plane with 3 passengers struck the Carman tower, due to heavy fog. None of the passengers survived. Three tower workers were killed when the tower collapsed during efforts to replace a missing guy wire. On July 29, 1992, CBW was authorized to decrease its night-time power from 50,000 watts to 46,000 watts and relocate the transmitter from Carman to a new site near Springstein. On October 15, 1993, CBW began broadcasting from the new site, which was 30 miles closer to Winnipeg than the old site. CBW moved from the 3rd floor of the ''Telephone Building'' on Portage Avenue East to its current location on Portage Avenue, broadcasting from the new location for the first time on July 5, 1953. The opening officially occurred on September 25, 1953. Over the next week, the station held open house tours of the station. The building cost $1 million to construct and was state of the art at the time. Today, CBW shares this same location with

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and

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. On March 16, 2006, the

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(CRTC) approved an application by the CBC for a "nested" FM rebroadcaster in Winnipeg as a simulcast of CBW. The station had long been plagued by poor coverage in portions of Winnipeg itself, and the FM repeater was intended to improve reception in these areas. CBW-1-FM 89.3 operates from a transmitter atop MTS Bell Place Main, and has an

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of 2,800 watts. The call sign CBW was previously used by the CBC Radio station in

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in 1937-38 until it was shut down. When it was revived in 1950, the Windsor CBC outlet became

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Local programming

CBW's

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are ''Information Radio'' in the morning, ''

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'' and ''Up to Speed'' in the afternoon; ''The Weekend Morning Show'' runs on Saturdays and Sundays, and the arts and culture show ''Manitoba Scene'' at 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays in addition to ''North Country'' programming weekdays at 7:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. CT.

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and its rebroadcasters also air programming from the CBC Manitoba studio in Winnipeg (with the exception of "Information Radio").

Rebroadcasters

CBW has the following rebroadcasters: * CBW-1-FM -

- 89.3 * CBWV-FM -

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- 97.9 * CBWW-FM - Dauphin-

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- 105.3 * CBWX-FM - Fisher Branch - 95.7 * CBWA-FM - Manigotagan - 101.3 * CBWY-FM - Jackhead - 92.7 * CBWZ-FM -

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- 104.3

Current CBW personalities

* Roseanna Deerchild host "Unreserved" Saturdays 5:00 PM Manitoba Sundays 7:00 PM National * Marcy Markusa, host ''Information Radio'' * Faith Fundal, host ''Up to Speed'' * Marjorie Dowhos, host ''Radio Noon'' * Shannah-Lee Vidal, traffic & community reporter * Heather Wells, news anchor weekday mornings * Riley Laychuk, news anchor weekday afternoons * Karen Pauls, National reporter * Meaghan Ketcheson, reporter * Leslie McLaren, fill in anchor * Susan Magas, reporter * Emily Brass, reporter * Marianne Klowak, reporter * Bartley Kives City Hall Reporter Formerly of the Winnipeg Free Press

Former CBW personalities

* Donald Benham - hosted ''Questionnaire'' in the (1990s) *

Garth Dawley Garth Dawley (1933 - 2020) was most known for reading the news on CBWT's supper-hour news program ''24Hours (TV program), 24Hours'' from October 5, 1970 – 1983. Prior to his role at ''24Hours'' he co-hosted the local morning show on CBW (AM ...

- co-hosted ''Information Radio'' (1960s) (Deceased June 1, 2020) * Eric Friesen - co-hosted ''Radio Noon'', ''Up to Now'' (1970s) * Lesley Hughes - co-hosted ''Information Radio'' (1980s) * Tom McCulloch - ''Information Radio'' news anchor (1970s) * Doug McIlraith - co-hosted ''Radio Noon'' (1970s) * Gren Marsh - co-hosted ''Up to Now'' (1970s) * Agatha Moir - ''Information Radio'' (1980s) fill-in host ''Weekend Morning Show'' * Lionel Moore - co-hosted ''Radio Noon'' (1970s) * Maureen Pendergast - co-hosted ''Information Radio'' (1990s) * Jim Rae - co-hosted ''Radio Noon'' (1970s) * Kerän Sanders - host of ''The Afternoon Edition'' (1989-1997) & ''The Weekend Morning Show'' (2009-2012) * Jack Turnbull - ''Information Radio'' news anchor (1970s) * Bob Willson - co-hosted 1950 flood coverage * Roger Currie * Peter Duck (Moved to

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) * Ismaila Alfa (now host of CBC Toronto Metro Morning) * Terry Mcleod (Host Weekend Morning Show) * Megan Benedictson (now with

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) * Sean Kavanagh (now with Manitoba government)

CRTC licensing

CRTC Decision 1999-515 - New multi-channel antenna serving Brandon, Manitoba

References

External links

CBC Manitoba
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