CBCS-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the CBC Radio One station in Sudbury , Ontario , broadcasting at 99.9 FM , and serves all of Northeastern Ontario through its network of relay transmitters. The station's studio is located at the CBC/Radio-Canada facilities at 43 Elm Street in Sudbury.
25-564: On July 28, 1975, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation received approval from the CRTC to operate a new english-language FM station at Sudbury, Ontario. The proposed frequency was 97.1 MHz (later read 99.9 MHz when launched). The station was launched on May 5, 1978 on 99.9 MHz. Prior to its launch, CBC Radio programming aired on private affiliates CKSO and CKSO-FM . The CRTC decision authorizing
50-568: A mixture of locally hosted dayparts with syndicated programming, including the Brock & Dalby morning show from CIKR-FM Kingston, and the internationally syndicated Greg Beharrell Show in the evenings. On June 28, 2024, Rogers dropped the 92.7 Rock branding and resurrected the original 1990s Q92 branding. Rogers had also resurrected the original 1990s brandings for CJQQ-FM Timmins (as Q92 ) and CKFX-FM North Bay (as 101.9 The Fox ). C.K.S.O. Road near McFarlane Lake off Highway 69,
75-685: A question about whether the Ontario Health Insurance Plan should cover sex-reassignment surgery for transgender residents of the province, and one listener comment that was broadcast was singled out as especially homophobic and transphobic . In 1999, Telemedia acquired CJMX from the Pelmorex Radio Network as well. In 2002, Telemedia was purchased by Standard Broadcasting . Shortly afterward, Standard sold CJRQ, CIGM and CJMX to Rogers Communications . In 2009, CJRQ's longtime sister station AM 790 CIGM
100-497: A rally at the city's Tom Davies Square on April 5 to protest the cutbacks, with participants including federal MPs Glenn Thibeault , Claude Gravelle and Charlie Angus , and musicians Kevin Closs and Stéphane Paquette . In September 2014, the station announced that it would move in late 2015 from 15 Mackenzie Street, where it had been located since its launch in 1978, to a new leased studio and office space on Elm Street. The move
125-582: Is a list of former radio transmitters across Canada that were used by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . Most of the former transmitters operated on the AM dial as low-power relay transmitters (LPRT's), which were added to vast remote communities on the AM dial, initially 20 watts of power when they first went on the air during World War II and were later boosted to 40 watts. Since
150-547: The United States during the nighttime hours. CKSO disaffiliated from CBC Radio in 1978 after CBCS-FM signed on. CKSO and sister station CIGM were by this time owned by Cambrian Broadcasting, who sold them to United Broadcasting in 1979 as part of the corporate restructuring that created Mid-Canada Communications as the new holder of the CKSO-TV license. In 1986, United sold CKSO and CIGM to Telemedia . In
175-472: The 1980s, the station aired an adult contemporary format, distinguishing itself from competitor CHNO 's more youth-oriented Top 40/CHR format. During this era, the station used brandings such as Radio 79 CKSO , Music Radio CKSO and Favourite Hits AM 790 . On March 16, 1990, the CRTC approved Telemedia Communications Ontario Inc.'s application to amend the Promise of Performance for CIGM-FM by changing
200-552: The CBC received CRTC approval to change CBCG-FM's transmitter class from low power to regular power A1, increasing the effective radiated power from 8 to 115.7 watts and decreasing the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 71.5 to 54.3 metres. On August 19, 2021, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to increase the average effective radiated power (ERP) for CBEC-FM at 90.3 MHz Elliot Lake from 103 to 1,065 watts (maximum ERP from 264 to 2,725 watts), increasing
225-601: The CBC submitted an application to convert CBEY 1340 to the FM band. Its proposed callsign will be CBEY-FM . On June 20, 2016, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate an FM rebroadcasting transmitter in Moosonee to replace its existing low-power AM transmitter CBEY. The new transmitter will operate at 99.9 MHz with an effective radiated power of 135 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 8.97 metres). On March 9, 2016,
250-493: The CRTC approved the CBC's application to decrease the power of CBLJ-FM from 50,000 watts to 4,807 watts, combined with an increase in the effective height of antenna above average terrain (EHAAT) from 114.6 to 132.6 metres. On July 4, 2014, the CBC submitted an application to convert CBEU 1340 to the FM band, which received CRTC approval on November 4, 2014. Temagami's FM transmitter signed on at 106.1 MHz in late 2014 with its new callsign, CBCS-FM-1 . On February 26, 2016,
275-456: The CRTC approved the CBC's application to move CBLQ Latchford (Temiskaming Shores) from 1450 kHz to 750 kHz. The change to 750 kHz in Latchford was never implemented, due to possible interference from CKGB Timmins, which had moved to 750 kHz in 1984. CBLQ remained on 1450 in Latchford until it moved to 102.3 MHz on the FM band in 1996 as CBCY-FM. On October 25, 2013,
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#1732775972033300-560: The FM band in 2000, dropping to 22.9 per cent of the radio audience in 2000 from 30.9 per cent in 1999. In 1997, the station was censured by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council over a 1995 broadcast. The station aired a daily programming feature in which it asked a daily poll question on an issue in the news, and subsequently broadcast a selection of listener comments; the CBSC complaint pertained to
325-586: The Sudbury area until CKSO-FM , a Christian music station which had no ownership affiliation with CJRQ, signed on in 2003. While CKSO had been a perennial second in the radio ratings against CHNO, CJRQ quickly became the most-listened to radio station in Northern Ontario , and retained that status until the late 1990s, when CJMX 's adult contemporary format overtook CJRQ in the ratings. The station took its biggest ratings hit after CHNO converted to
350-512: The effective height of the antenna above average terrain from 141.0 to 165.3 metres. Transmitters CBLF 1450 Foleyet and CBLO 1240 Mattawa are the last two CBC low power AM transmitters to rebroadcast CBCS-FM Sudbury. No plans have been announced to either convert them to the FM band or shut them down completely . CJRQ-FM CJRQ-FM (92.7 MHz ) is a Canadian radio station , which broadcasts in Sudbury, Ontario . The station uses
375-412: The launch of CBCS in fact encouraged, but did not direct, the CBC to retain an AM frequency for CBC Radio , and to reserve CBCS for its CBC Stereo network. However, the station launched in 1978 as an affiliate of the talk network after the CBC was unable to negotiate an agreement with Cambrian Broadcasting to directly acquire CKSO. The CBC later applied for a second license for its Stereo network, which
400-471: The music format from Group III (Country and Country-Oriented) to Group IV (40% Pop and Rock-Softer; 60% Pop and Rock-Harder). Two months later on May 18, 1990, CKSO and CIGM swapped frequencies. CIGM moved to CKSO's 790 slot on the AM band, and CKSO took on the new call letters CJRQ and CIGM's 92.7 FM frequency. The new rock format signed on as Q92 . After the 1990 swap, the CKSO call sign no longer existed in
425-477: The on-air brand Q92 . The station airs a mainstream rock format and is owned by Rogers Radio , a division of Rogers Sports & Media . The station first aired as CJRQ-FM in 1990. From 1935 to 1990, it was an AM station, airing under the call letters CKSO . The station was launched in 1935 under the ownership of W. E. Mason, the owner and publisher of the Sudbury Star . CKSO's original frequency
450-667: The program won the award for all of Canada. The CBC announced in August 2014 that Up North , which premiered on August 11, would replace the former afternoon program Points North . The new program extends its coverage to all of Northern Ontario , also replacing Voyage North on CBQT-FM in Thunder Bay . Former Points North host Dan Lessard retired from the program in June 2010. He was replaced by Jason Turnbull, who served as host of Points North , and then of Up North , until leaving
475-722: The station in 2018 to take a job in media relations with Health Sciences North . Turnbull, in turn, was succeeded by Waubgeshig Rice , who hosted the show until leaving the CBC in May 2020. Jonathan Pinto was named the new host of the program, effective September 2020. In the CBC's proposed new regional programming strategy released in 2005, North Bay was scheduled to receive its own local news bureau, although North Bay would continue to receive CBCS' local programming apart from news updates. As of 2024, however, no separate local news service has been launched in North Bay. On January 22, 1985,
500-427: Was acquired by Sudbury businessmen George Miller, Jim Cooper and Bill Plaunt in 1950; the same trio subsequently launched CKSO-TV , the city's first television station, in 1953. In 1976, 790 CKSO received approval to increase their power from 10,000 watts day and 5,000 watts night to 50,000 watts full-time. Following the power increase, the station's AM signal could be heard as far away as Europe and some areas of
525-528: Was at 780 kHz, until it moved to 790 kHz in 1941. For much of its history, the station was an affiliate of the CBC 's Trans-Canada Network . CKSO was the first commercial radio station in northern Ontario. Following Mason's death in 1948, ownership was passed to a charitable foundation set up by his estate, with the Sudbury Memorial Hospital as the primary beneficiary. The station
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#1732775972033550-759: Was completed in December 2015. The CBC had an open house in September 2016. The former studio on Mackenzie Street was then rented out to Siena Films as the police station in the 2017 drama series Cardinal . The station's local programs are Morning North , hosted by Markus Schwabe, and Up North , hosted by Jonathan Pinto, in the afternoon. In May 2009, Morning North won the Radio and Television News Directors Association's Peter Gzowski Award for Best Information Radio Program in Central Canada, and in June 2009,
575-461: Was granted in 1984. However, that station remain unlaunched throughout the 1980s, and the CBC was forced in 1991 to surrender all of its non-operating licenses. Consequently, CBC Radio 2 service was not available in the city until the launch of CBBS-FM in 2001. In the CBC's service reductions announced in March 2009, CBCS was slated to lose half of its existing staff. Several hundred people attended
600-637: Was named after the radio station, CKSO. In 2004, Doug McCann a former broadcaster at CKSO created a website, and later a Facebook page to keep in touch with the people he worked with at CKSO and providing historical information on the station. In 2021, McCann also published a book about The Story of the Birth of Broadcasting in Sudbury. 46°30′03″N 81°01′12″W / 46.50083°N 81.02000°W / 46.50083; -81.02000 List of defunct CBC radio transmitters in Canada This
625-541: Was sold to Newcap Broadcasting and moved to the FM dial in August that same year. On June 7, 2016, Q92 was rebranded as 92.7 Rock retaining the slogan and rock format. This was the first time CJRQ rebranded since the station signed on as "Q92" on May 18, 1990. The station uses the same general format as, and shares some programming with, CKFX-FM in North Bay and CJQQ-FM in Timmins . The stations currently air
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