CBOF-FM

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CBOF-FM
City of license	Ottawa, Ontario
Broadcast area	National Capital Region Eastern Ontario Outaouais
Branding	Première Chaîne
Frequency	90.7 MHz FM ^[1]
First air date	August 1, 1964 (AM) January 7, 1991 (FM)
Format	news radio, various music
ERP	84 kW
Class	C1
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Website	www.radio-canada.ca/ottawa

CBOF-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Ottawa, Ontario.

Owned and operated by the (government-owned) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French : Société Radio-Canada), it broadcasts on 90.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 84,000 watts (class C1) using an omnidirectional antenna.

The station has an ad-free news/talk format and is part of the Première Chaîne network, which operates across Canada.

The station signed on in 1964 on the AM band on 1250 kHz. Before then, Ottawa, despite its large francophone population, had no French-language radio outlet of its own; Radio-Canada instead relied on the 50,000-watt signal of Montreal's CBF to serve Ottawa's francophones. The station moved to the FM band in 1991. Its sister station, which used the CBOF-FM calls before that date, is now known as CBOX-FM.

While CBOF-FM broadcasts in mono, like all Première Chaîne stations but unlike most FM stations, it is the only CBC talk radio station to have ever broadcast in stereo. This occurred between 1984 and 1987, when the station was still on AM, as CBOF was selected to test all four AM stereo systems (C-QUAM, Kahn/Hazeltine, Harris and Magnavox) proposed at the time.

Transmitters

Rebroadcasters of CBOF-FM
City of license	Identifier	Frequency	RECNet
Maniwaki, Quebec	CBOF-1	990 AM	Query
Rolphton	CBOF-4	1400 AM	Query
Cornwall	CBOF-FM-6	98.1 FM	Query
Brockville	CBOF-FM-7	102.1 FM	Query
Chapeau, Quebec/ Pembroke, Ontario	CBOF-FM-9	88.7 FM	Query

The two AM repeaters in Rolphton, Ontario and Maniwaki, Quebec are the last two remaining CBOF repeaters that currently operate on the AM band. There's a possibility that these repeaters either may be shut down or relocate to the FM band in the future.

Former repeaters

Former CBOF repeaters that have been silent since the 1980s and 1990s:

Petawawa - CBOF-2 1240 AM
Deep River - CBOF-3 730 AM
Renfrew - CBOF-8 98.7 FM - This was a former FM repeater in Renfrew, Ontario that was deleted when CBOF-FM signed on in Ottawa in the early 1990s. The 98.7 FM frequency is now currently occupied by CJHR-FM in Renfrew, while the two former AM frequencies that were used by CBOF as repeaters in Petawawa and Deep River were never reactivated for any other future broadcasting.

References

↑ Decision CRTC 89-835

External links

v t e 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 CKCU 93.1 CKKL 93.9 CJFO 94.5 CKAV-10 95.7 CIIO 96.1 CIIF 97.5 CJLL 97.9 CJWL 98.5 CHRI 99.1 CJOT 99.7 CJMJ 100.3 CIDG 101.9 CBOX 102.5 CBOQ 103.3 CISS 105.3 CHEZ 106.1 CKQB 106.9 CKDJ 107.9

Gatineau	CIRA-5 1350 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	CKKV 97.5

Defunct stations	CKCH 970 Mix FM 91.9 (pirate)

Weatheradio Canada	VBE719 162.550 (Ottawa-Gatineau)

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v t e SRC radio stations in Canada

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Ici Radio-Canada Musique	CBCX Calgary CBAX Halifax CBAL Moncton CBFX Montreal CBOX Ottawa CBVX Quebec City CBRX Rimouski CBJX Saguenay CBBX Sudbury CJBC Toronto CBUX Vancouver CKSB Winnipeg

Former private affiliates	CFRG Gravelbourg CFLM La Tuque CFNS Saskatoon CFBR Sudbury CKLD Thetford Mines CFCL Timmins CFDA Victoriaville CKVM Ville-Marie

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

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