CBAM-FM

Last updated
CBAM-FM
Cbc radio one moncton.svg
Broadcast areaEastern New Brunswick
Frequency 106.1 MHz (FM)
Branding CBC Radio One
Programming
Format Public radio; news-talk
Ownership
Owner Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBA-FM, CBAF-FM, CBAFT-DT, CBAT-DT
History
First air date
  • April 8, 1939;84 years ago (1939-04-08) as CBA on the AM band
  • January 2008;16 years ago (2008-01) as CBAM-FM
Former call signs
CBA (1939-2008)
Former frequencies
  • 1050 kHz (AM) (1939-1941)
  • 1070 kHz (1941-2008)
Call sign meaning
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Atlantic Moncton
Technical information
Class C1
ERP
HAAT 211 metres (692 ft)
Links
Website CBC New Brunswick

CBAM-FM (106.1 MHz) is a public, non-commercial radio station in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is the local Radio One station of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The studios and offices are at 165 Main Street, in a building known as Ici Acadie, along with facilities for co-owned CBA-FM, CBAF-FM, CBAFT-DT and CBAT-DT.

Contents

CBAM-FM is a Class C1 station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 69,500 watts horizontal polarization and 34,300 watts vertical polarization. The transmitter tower is on Timberline Road near Whitfield Trites Road in Moncton. [1]

Programming

CBAM-FM has a local wake-up news and interview program, "Information Morning Moncton" with Jonna Brewer from 6 to 8:30 weekdays. It shares a weekday afternoon show with other CBC Radio One stations in New Brunswick, "Shift". From Halifax, it shares a midday magazine show on weekdays, "Maritime Noon", as well as some weekend shows and newscasts.

Every November, CBAM-FM hosts a local radiothon for the Dr. Georges-L. Dumont Hospital Foundation, with proceeds going to the Tree of Hope Campaign. This radiothon airs only on CBAM-FM.

History

CRCA

The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission owned and operated a station in Moncton under the call sign CRCA, which had previously been CNR Radio station CNRA. The station was taken off the air in on October 31, 1933. Plans were made for the construction of a more powerful transmitter in nearby Sackville that would cover the Maritime provinces. [2] [3]

The CRBC was closed down in 1936 and replaced by the CBC, which inherited the project. [4] It took another three years for the CBC to establish radio service in the area.

CBA

The new station signed on as CBA on April 8, 1939. It was a 50,000-watt Class I-B station at 1050 AM. CBA was the CBC's clear-channel outlet for the Maritime provinces, heard in the daytime over much of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and at night audible over much of Eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States.

As a result of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement treaty (NARBA), it moved to 1070 AM on March 29, 1941. The original city of licence was Sackville, the location of the transmitter site. The city of licence was later changed to Moncton in 1968 when the CBA transmitter, one 460-foot (140 m) tower, moved to Dover Road in the rural community of Fox Creek near Moncton. In the 1950s and 1960s, CBA's studios were located on St. George Street in Moncton.

In September 1970, CBA and its French-language counterparts CBAF and CBAFT were given approval to relocate their studios and offices in a new complex at 250 Archibald Street (today known as University Avenue).

Move to 106.1 FM

On January 8, 2007, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the station's proposed move to 106.1 FM. [5] Since CBA-FM was already the call sign of the local CBC Radio 2 transmitter, CBA adopted the CBAM-FM call sign. The engineers were at the AM transmitter site on Dover Road in Dieppe to say goodbye to the old AM signal that signed off for good on the morning of April 7, 2008, shortly after the 8:30 CBC news. [6] [7] CBA was the last AM station in eastern New Brunswick, and the CBC wanted to stop a drop in market share.

CBAM was the former call sign of a defunct CBC low-power AM transmitter in Edmundston, which converted to FM as CBAN-FM, an FM rebroadcaster of CBZF-FM in Fredericton.

The original CBA transmitter site at the Tantramar Marshes near Sackville continued to broadcast Radio Canada International around the world on shortwave radio as well as relay broadcasts for several foreign shortwave broadcasters. For the purposes of CRTC licensing, the Sackville complex was designated under the call letters CKCX. [8] The shortwave site discontinued broadcasts on December 1, 2012, after which its facilities were dismantled. [9]

Staff

Current staff

Former staff

Rebroadcasters

CBAM-FM has the following rebroadcasters:

Rebroadcasters of CBAM-FM
City of license Identifier Frequency RECNetCRTC Decision
Neguac-Allardville CBAA-FM97.9 FM Query
Campbellton CBAE-FM90.5 FM Query
Sackville CBAM-FM-1105.7 FM Query CRTC 2010-67

On October 25, 2013, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to relocate the facilities of CBAM-FM-1 Sackville to a new transmission site south of Ogden Mill; this was due to the closure of the CBC's shortwave facilities, where the local repeater was also located. [10] [9]

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References

  1. FCCdata.org/CBAM-FM
  2. "CNR Radio Out - CRBC In | History of Canadian Broadcasting".
  3. "CBAM-FM | History of Canadian Broadcasting".
  4. "The Birth and Death of The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (1932-1936) | History of Canadian Broadcasting".
  5. CRTC Decisions 2007-01-08
  6. NorthEast Radio Watch 2008-03-24
  7. NorthEast Radio Watch 2008-04-07
  8. CRTC Decision CRTC 2001-518 2001-08-24
  9. 1 2 "ARCHIVED - CFFB Iqaluit – New transmitters in Puvirnituq, Kuujjuarapik, Inukjuak, Salluit and Kuujjuaq (Fort Chimo) – Correction". 5 November 2012.
  10. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-564, CBCS-FM Sudbury and its transmitter CBLJ-FM Wawa; CBVE-FM Québec and its transmitter CBVG-FM Gaspé; and CBAM-FM Moncton and its transmitter CBAM-FM-1 Sackville –Technical changes, CRTC, October 25, 2013

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