CBAF-FM-15

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CBAF-FM-15
City of license Charlottetown, PEI
Broadcast area Prince Edward Island
Branding La Première Chaîne
Frequency 88.1 MHz (FM)
Format public broadcasting
ERP 94.2 kW (peak)
Class C
Owner Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Website Radio-Canada

CBAF-FM-15 is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Owned and operated by the (government-owned) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French : Société Radio-Canada), it broadcasts on 88.1 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 33,500 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 94,200 watts (class C).

The station has an ad-free news/talk format and is part of the La Première Chaîne network, which operates across Canada. Like all La Première Chaîne stations, but unlike most FM stations, it broadcasts in mono.

Despite its call sign, CBAF-FM-15 is no longer a rebroadcaster of CBAF-FM as it officially became a separate station in 1994. [1]

The station has its own morning drive show (Le Réveil, Monday to Thursday from 6 to 9 a.m. and Friday from 6 to 10 a.m.). The rest of its programming is a simulcast of CBAF-FM-5 from Halifax, Nova Scotia [2]; that station produces locally a regional afternoon drive show (Les 400 coups, Monday to Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.) and simulcasts CBAF-FM from Moncton, New Brunswick the rest of the time.

CBAF-FM-15 was originally identified as CBAF-29-FM; the call sign change took effect on September 1, 1989, [3] as the old 1300 kHz AM signal of CBAF was shut down. [4]

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The following stations are fulltime rebroadcasters of CBAF-FM-15 :

  • CBAF-FM-20 in St. Edward, broadcasting on 97.5 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 1880 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 6000 watts (class B1).

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