CBO-FM

CBO-FM

City	Ottawa, Ontario
Broadcast area	National Capital Region (Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec, Upstate New York)
Branding	CBC Radio One
Slogan	Totally Ottawa
Frequency	91.5 MHz (FM) ^[1]
First air date	1924
Format	public broadcasting
ERP	84,000 watts
HAAT	323 meters (1,060 ft)
Class	C1
Callsign meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Ottawa
Former callsigns	CKCH (1924) CNRO (1924-1933) CRCO (1933-1937)
Former frequencies	920 kHz
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations	CBOF-FM, CBOQ-FM, CBOFT, CBOT
Website	cbc.ca/ottawa

CBO-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the CBC Radio One station in Ottawa, airing at 91.5 FM, and serves much of Eastern Ontario through a network of relay transmitters. CBO-FM's Ottawa-area transmitter is located in Camp Fortune, Quebec, while its studios are located in the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre on Sparks Street.

History

CNRO was launched on February 27, 1924 as CKCH a Canadian National Railway radio network station, and adopted the CNRO call sign on July 16, 1924, in order to indicate its network affiliation.^[2] The station was the first to broadcast the time signal from the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa, doing so daily at 9 pm.^[3] It operated on AM 690 and later switched to 600. In 1933, the station was taken over by the CBC's predecessor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission and became CRCO on 880 kHz AM. The call sign changed to CBO in 1937 when ownership was transferred to the CBC.^[2] Later frequency changes to 910 in 1941 and to 920 in 1977 (the latter accompanied by a power boost to 50,000 watts) were followed by a move from the AM to the FM band at 91.5 in 1991. The call sign of the existing CBO-FM station on 103.3 (part of the CBC Stereo network) was then changed to CBOQ-FM. From 1924, the station's studios were located on the sixth floor of the Chateau Laurier Hotel in downtown Ottawa, a legacy of its origins with the Canadian National Railway which had also owned the hotel. In 2004, the station left the Chateau Laurier, closing the oldest operating radio studios in Canada, and moved to the new CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre on Sparks Street as part of a consolidation of various Ottawa CBC facilities.

Local programming

The station's local programs are Ottawa Morning in the mornings and All in a Day in the afternoon. However, most of the relay transmitters air the Toronto-originated Ontario Morning in place of Ottawa Morning. Unlike most CBC Radio One stations, which air provincewide morning programs on Saturdays and Sundays, the station also produces its own Saturday morning show, In Town and Out.

In addition, CBO produces the regional noon news and talk program Ontario Today, which airs on all CBC Radio One stations in Ontario including Toronto, and the national network program, The House. It also formerly produced Bandwidth, a music show which aired on all CBC Radio One stations in Ontario outside of Toronto until 2014.

Transmitters

Rebroadcasters of CBO-FM
City of license	Identifier	Frequency	Power	Class	RECNet	CRTC Decision
Brockville	CBOB-FM	91.9 FM	1,080 watts	A	Query	2007-399
Cornwall	CBOC-FM	95.5 FM	3,000 watts	A	Query
Deep River	CBCD-FM-1	97.9 FM	50 watts	LP	Query	2014-504
Kingston	CBCK-FM	107.5 FM	100,000 watts	C1	Query	98-42
Maniwaki, Quebec	CBOM	710 AM	40 watts	LP	Query	86-21
Pembroke	CBCD-FM	92.5 FM	100,000 watts	C1	Query	94-932
Whitney	CBCW-FM	98.5 FM	162 watts	A1	Query

On July 5, 2010, the CBC applied to change Brockville's CBOB-FM frequency from 106.5 to 91.9 MHz which received CRTC approval on November 10, 2010.^[4]

On June 2, 2014, the CBC submitted an application to convert CBLI Deep River from the AM band (1110 kHz) to the FM band at 97.9 MHz. This application was approved on September 30, 2014.^[5] Deep River's callsign for its new transmitter will be CBCD-FM-1.

CBOM 710 in Maniwaki, Quebec is CBO-FM's only rebroadcaster outside Ontario and currently one of the last remaining AM transmitters to rebroadcast CBO-FM.

References

↑ Decision CRTC 89-835
1 2 CKCH/CNRO-AM Ottawa (1924-1937 - known today as CBO) at Canadian Communications Foundation
↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/the-beginning-of-the-long-dash-indicates-75-years-of-official-time-on-cbc-1.2823599
↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2010-838
↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2014-504, CBO-FM in Ottawa - New FM transmitter in Deep River, CRTC, September 30, 2014

External links

Radio stations in Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec

Ottawa AM	CFRA 580 CFGO 1200 CIWW 1310 CHYW 1630

Ottawa FM	CILV 88.5 CHUO 89.1 CIHT 89.9 CBOF 90.7 CBO 91.5 VF8013 92.3 CJVN 92.7 CKCU 93.1 CKKL 93.9 CJFO 94.5 CJLL 97.9 CJWL 98.5 CHRI 99.1 CJOT 99.7 CJMJ 100.3 CIDG 101.9 → 101.7 CBOX 102.5 CBOQ 103.3 CISS 105.3 CHEZ 106.1 CKQB 106.9 CKDJ 107.9

Gatineau	CJEU 1670 CIMF 94.9 CFTX 96.5 CHLX 97.1 CKTF 104.1 CKOF 104.7

Smiths Falls	CJET 92.3 CKBY 101.1

Perth	CHLK 88.1

Kemptville	CKVV 97.5

Defunct stations	CKCH 970 CIRA-5 1350 Mix FM 91.9 (pirate) CKAV-9 95.7 CIIO 96.1 CIIF 97.5 CFDT 96.5

Weatheradio Canada	VBE719 162.550 (Ottawa-Gatineau)

Ontario radio markets Cornwall & Eastern Ontario Hamilton-Niagara Kenora District First Nations Radio Kingston-Brockville Kitchener-Waterloo London Midwestern Ontario North Bay Ottawa Parry Sound-Muskoka-Haliburton Pembroke/Ottawa Valley Peterborough Quinte/Belleville-Trenton Rainy River Simcoe County/Barrie/Orillia Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay Timiskaming Timmins Toronto Windsor-Chatham-Sarnia Quebec radio markets Abitibi-Témiscamingue Bas-Saint-Laurent Centre-du-Québec Chaudière-Appalaches Côte-Nord Gaspésie Gatineau Laurentides Mauricie Montreal Nord-du-Québec Quebec City Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Sherbrooke/Estrie See also List of radio stations in Ontario List of radio stations in Quebec

CBC Radio stations in Canada

CBC Radio One	CBR Calgary CBCT Charlottetown CBY Corner Brook CBX Edmonton CBZF Fredericton CBG Gander CFGB Goose Bay CBT Grand Falls CBHA Halifax CHAK Inuvik CFFB Iqaluit CBYK Kamloops CBTK Kelowna CBKA La Ronge CBDQ Labrador City CBCL London CBAM Moncton CBME Montreal CBO Ottawa CBLA-2 Paris (Kitchener/Waterloo) CBYG Prince George CFPR Prince Rupert CBVE Quebec City CBQR Rankin Inlet CBD Saint John CBN St. John's CBCS Sudbury CBI Sydney CBWK Thompson CBQT Thunder Bay CBLA Toronto CBU Vancouver CBCV Victoria CBK Watrous (Regina/Saskatoon) CFWH Whitehorse CBEW Windsor CBW Winnipeg CFYK Yellowknife

CBC Radio 2	CBR Calgary CBX Edmonton CBH Halifax CBM Montreal CBOQ Ottawa CBK Regina CBN St. John's CBBS Sudbury CBI Sydney CBQ Thunder Bay CBL Toronto CBU Vancouver CBE Windsor CBW Winnipeg

See also	CBC Radio 3 SRC radio stations Weatheradio Canada Radio Canada International CBC North Bande à part

Coordinates: 45°25′17″N 75°42′00″W / 45.4213°N 75.7000°W / 45.4213; -75.7000

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 03, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.