CFYX-FM

CFYX-FM
City of license Rimouski, Quebec
Branding FM 93
Slogan La puissance musicale de l'Est-du-Québec!
Frequency 93.3 MHz (FM)
First air date October 9, 2007
Format Silent
ERP 18.2 kW
Class C1
Affiliations Cogeco
Owner Groupe Radio Simard
(Radio Rimouski)

CFYX-FM was a French-language Canadian radio station located in Rimouski, Quebec.

Owned and operated by Radio Rimouski,[1] part of Groupe Radio Simard, it broadcast on 93.3 MHz with an effective radiated power of 18,197 watts using an omnidirectional antenna (class C1).

The station had a hot adult contemporary format under the FM 93 branding; although some programming from Cogeco-owned CHMP-FM and CKOI-FM in Montreal was aired.

The station received CRTC approval in 2006 [2] and went on the air on October 9, 2007 at 7 a.m.; part of its programming comes from the Cogeco Diffusion network. The station's original call sign (as assigned in November 2006) was CIEL-FM-6, but it was changed to CFYX-FM in May 2007.[3]

On December 11, 2008, the station was authorized by the CRTC to add a rebroadcaster on 103.1 FM in Rivière-du-Loup.[4]

On July 6, 2011, the station applied to add a new FM transmitter at Amqui. The proposed transmitter in Amqui was to be operated at 92.7 MHz; the application was withdrawn on September 23, 2011.[5][6]

On February 28, 2012 at 5:30pm, station management has shut down the station;[7] executives at the station has said that the station was not profitable.[8]

References

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  2. "CFYX FM 93 ferme ses portes - Le monde aujourd'hui - ICI Radio-Canada Premire". CFYX FM 93 ferme ses portes - Le monde aujourd'hui - ICI Radio-Canada Premire. Retrieved 13 December 2014.

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