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17-543: CBW may refer to: CBW (AM) , a radio station (990 AM) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada CBW-FM , a radio station (98.3 FM) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Chemical and biological weapons/warfare – see: Chemical warfare Biological warfare Weapons of mass destruction Cincinnati Bell Wireless Command Block Wrapper – see USB mass storage device class Canterbury West railway station Topics referred to by

34-590: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages CBW (AM) CBW's studios are located on Portage Avenue ( Winnipeg Route 85 ) in Downtown Winnipeg , while its transmitters are located near Beaudry Provincial Park in Springstein . Due to the station's transmitter power and Manitoba's mostly flat land (with near-perfect ground conductivity), CBW 990 reaches almost all of southern Manitoba during

51-722: Is now owned by Bell Media , while CFQX is now owned by the Jim Pattison Group .) CFWM had to be sold, as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) would not let one company own more than two AM or FM stations in the same radio market . CFWM was sold to CHUM Limited in 2001 in exchange for CHOM-FM in Montreal . On March 4, 2002, CFWM became the first radio station in Canada to adopt an adult hits format and gave birth to

68-726: The Manitoba Telephone System , with a transmitter power of 500 watts at a frequency of 665 kHz. It became a partial affiliate of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in 1933, and was purchased outright by the CBC in 1948. The station adopted its current call sign a few months after the CBC purchase, and the CKY call sign was reassigned to a new commercial radio station in 1949. CBW

85-553: The call sign CKRC in 1943. The station was affiliated with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 's Dominion Network from 1944 until the network dissolved in 1962. In 1993, CKRC was purchased by two of its employees, Sales Executive Terry O'Rourke and General Manager Bill Gorrie. They owned and ran the station for 3 years. O'Rourke and Gorrie got permission from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to move CKRC to

102-629: The " Bob FM " brand (which has been credited as one of the inspirations behind the more famous " Jack FM " branding). In 2007, CFWM, along with the other CHUM Limited stations, were sold to CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media ). Longtime Winnipeg morning show hosts Beau & Tom (since 1989) moved from CHIQ-FM to CFWM. On August 31, 2009, Frazier, who previously hosted the morning show on CHIQ with Beau & Tom from 1995 to 2000, rejoined Beau & Tom on CFWM. On January 4, 2011, CFWM's morning show and CHIQ-FM 's past morning show switched stations, putting Beau, Tom and Frazier back on CHIQ. On May 18, 2021,

119-771: The CBC Manitoba studio in Winnipeg (with the exception of "Information Radio"). CFWM-FM CFWM-FM (99.9 MHz ) is a commercial radio station in Winnipeg , Manitoba . It is owned by Bell Media and airs an adult hits format branded as Bounce 99.9 . The studios and offices are at 1445 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg, with sister station CKMM-FM . The transmitter is on Road 54 Northeast, off McGillivrey Boulevard, near Oak Bluff . The station signed on in 1928 as CJRW , at 600 AM . As with most early AM radio stations, it changed frequencies several times (see NARBA ). It permanently settled at 630 in 1935 and adopted

136-619: The CBC for a "nested" FM rebroadcaster in Winnipeg as a simulcast of CBW. The station had long been plagued by poor coverage in portions of Winnipeg itself, and the FM repeater was intended to improve reception in these areas. CBW-1-FM 89.3 operates from a transmitter atop MTS Bell Place Main, and has an effective radiated power of 2,800 watts. The call sign CBW was previously used by the CBC Radio station in Windsor, Ontario in 1937-38 until it

153-454: The FM band in 1996. The new FM station adopted the current call letters, CFWM-FM . (The CKRC call letters now belong to an FM station in Weyburn , Saskatchewan .) They branded the new station as Magic 99.9 , airing a soft adult contemporary format. In 1997, O'Rourke and Gorrie sold CFWM-FM to Standard Radio. Standard Radio later acquired CKMM-FM and CFQX-FM from Craig Media . (CKMM

170-457: The day and much of the middle portion of North America at night. The station is simulcast on CBW-1- FM at 89.3 MHz . The FM transmitter is atop Bell MTS Place Main, in downtown Winnipeg. An early demonstration of radio by Lee de Forest took place in Winnipeg in April 1910, with extensive amateur and experimental interest after that date. Regularly scheduled broadcasting did not begin until

187-448: The new location for the first time on July 5, 1953. The opening officially occurred on September 25, 1953. Over the next week, the station held open house tours of the station. The building cost $ 1 million to construct and was state of the art at the time. Today, CBW shares this same location with CBW-FM and CBWT-DT . On March 16, 2006, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved an application by

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204-451: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title CBW . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CBW&oldid=1076810521 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

221-489: The spring of 1922, when Lynn Salton established a private station with the call sign CKZC. Both Winnipeg daily newspapers developed their own radio stations in 1922, notably providing coverage of the 1922 Provincial election. However, the stations were found to be expensive to operate. In January 1923, the newspapers agreed to get out of the broadcasting business in favor of the government-owned station. The station first signed on March 13, 1923 as CKY , owned and operated by

238-512: The station rebranded under Bell's national adult hits brand Bounce , with no change in format. Bob Washington, a personality on the station during the CKRC era, was well known outside of Winnipeg as the "voice" of K-tel , a Winnipeg-based direct response advertising company. Bill Walker, who later became one of the most recognizable television hosts of the 1950s and 60s, was morning man of CKRC from 1951 to 1955. Other notable personalities from

255-575: The tower collapsed during efforts to replace a missing guy wire. On July 29, 1992, CBW was authorized to decrease its night-time power from 50,000 watts to 46,000 watts and relocate the transmitter from Carman to a new site near Springstein. On October 15, 1993, CBW began broadcasting from the new site, which was 30 miles closer to Winnipeg than the old site. CBW moved from the 3rd floor of the Telephone Building on Portage Avenue East to its current location on Portage Avenue, broadcasting from

272-639: Was part of the Trans-Canada Network , which was the main CBC radio network, while CKRC carried programming from the Dominion Network between January 1, 1944 and 1962. The transmitter was originally located in Carman . On February 3, 1952, a small plane with 3 passengers struck the Carman tower, due to heavy fog. None of the passengers survived. Three tower workers were killed when

289-550: Was shut down. When it was revived in 1950, the Windsor CBC outlet became CBE . CBW's local programs are Information Radio in the morning, Radio Noon and Up to Speed in the afternoon; The Weekend Morning Show runs on Saturdays and Sundays, and the arts and culture show Manitoba Scene at 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays in addition to North Country programming weekdays at 7:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. CT. CBWK-FM Thompson and its rebroadcasters also air programming from

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