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 The proposed transmitter in Amqui was to be operated at 92.7 MHz; the application was withdrawn on September 23, 2011.[5][6]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. Archived July 6, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Archived June 7, 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Archived October 15, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "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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