CBFX-FM

CBFX-FM (100.7 MHz) is a publicnon-commercialradio station in Montreal, Quebec. It is the flagship station of the Ici Musique Network and broadcasts in French.

Owned and operated by the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), CBFX-FM is a Class C1 station. It transmits from the Mount Royal candelabra tower with an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts.^[1] Its studios and offices, along with those of Ici Radio-Canada Premièresister stationCBF-FM, are located at Maison Radio-Canada on René Lévesque Boulevard.

On March 13, 1946, the station began experimental broadcasts as VE9CB on 98.1 MHz. It received a full license on March 5, 1948, as CBF-FM, broadcasting at 95.1 MHz.^[2] For most of its early years, it simulcast co-owned CBF. Occasionally, in the 1960s and 70s, it would break away from its AM counterpart to air special programming.

With the CBC's English-language FM network already established since the 1960s, plans were made to create a French-language FM network, with CBF-FM as its originating station. In 1971, in preparation for its role as the French FM flagship, CBF-FM swapped frequencies with CBM-FM. CBF-FM moved to 100.7, just vacated by CBM-FM, while that station moved to a new frequency, 93.5 MHz.^[3] The move not only allowed CBF-FM to boost its signal to a full 100,000 watts, but it also began to broadcast in stereo for the first time.

In 1972, La Chaîne Culturelle (The Cultural Network) was launched on four CBC-owned FM stations, CBF-FM in Montreal, CBOF-FM in Ottawa, CBV-FM in Quebec City, and CBJ-FM in Chicoutimi. The network aired mostly classical music with some jazz and other arts programming.

En 1998, CBF-FM cambió su indicativo . Su emisora ​​hermana de AM, CBF, se trasladó a la banda de FM y adoptó las siglas CBF-FM. Esto obligó a la antigua CBF-FM a cambiar a un nuevo indicativo, CBFX-FM .

En 2004, la red pasó a llamarse Espace Musique . Y en 2014, se convirtió en Ici Musique , manteniendo la emisora ​​100.7 CBFX-FM como su estación de origen.

¹ - El 25 de abril de 2013, el CRTC aprobó la solicitud de la CBC para modificar las licencias de las repetidoras de CBFX en Trois-Rivières y Sherbrooke, con ambas estaciones transmitiendo al menos 20 minutos de programación local cada semana, y el resto de la programación de la red Espace Musique. La repetidora de Trois-Rivières en 104,3  MHz se actualizará a una potencia radiada efectiva (PRE) promedio de 45 400 vatios y una PRE máxima de 100 000 vatios (en comparación con los 43 000 vatios de PRE máxima actuales) con una altura efectiva sobre el terreno promedio de 249,7 metros. El transmisor de Sherbrooke en 90,7  MHz mantendrá sus parámetros existentes con una PRE de 25 000 vatios (antena no direccional con una PREA de 173 metros). ^{[ 4 ]}

Aunque técnicamente CBFX-4 y CBFX-5 son repetidoras de CBFX, las identificaciones en antena muestran que en realidad retransmiten la emisora ​​CBOX-FM de Ottawa .

• ICI Música
• CBFF-FM en la Historia de la Radiodifusión Canadiense por la Fundación Canadiense de Comunicaciones
• CBFX-FM en la base de datos de estaciones canadienses de REC

45°30′20″N 73°35′30″W / 45.50556°N 73.59167°W / 45.50556; -73.59167 ( CBFX-FM 100.7 Montreal )