CBME-FM

CBME-FM

City	Montreal, Quebec
Broadcast area	Greater Montreal
Branding	CBC Radio One
Frequency	88.5 MHz (FM)
First air date	December 11, 1937
Format	public broadcasting
Language(s)	English
ERP	11,510 watts
HAAT	242.7 meters (796 ft)
Class	C1
Callsign meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Montreal English
Former callsigns	CRCM (1933-1937) CBM (1937-1998)
Former frequencies	1060 kHz (AM) (1933-1937) 960 kHz (AM) (1937-1941) 940 kHz (AM) (1941-1998)
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Website	CBC Radio: Listen Live

CBME-FM is an English-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec.

Owned and operated by the (government-owned) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it broadcasts on 88.5 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 11,510 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 25,000 watts (class B) from a transmitter atop Mount Royal.

The station has a commercial-free news/talk format and is part of the CBC Radio One network which operates across Canada. Like all CBC Radio One stations, but unlike most FM stations, it broadcasts in mono. Some local shows and newscasts produced at CBME-FM are also heard on a chain of stations across Quebec.

Its studios and offices, along with those of sister stations 93.5 CBM-FM (CBC Radio 2), 95.1 CBF-FM, (Ici Radio-Canada Première) and 100.7 CBFX-FM (Ici Musique) are located at Maison Radio-Canada at 1400 Rene-Levesque Boulevard East. Master control is at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto.

History

The station was launched in 1933 on AM 1050 and was originally known as CRCM, operated by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission. When ownership was transferred to the CBC in 1937, the station call sign became CBM and the frequency was changed to 960. On March 29, 1941, like most radio stations in North America, CBM moved to a new frequency - 940. Originally 5000 watts, CBM's power was increased to 50,000 watts, the maximum power permitted by the CRTC for AM stations.

Prior to 1978, CBM broadcast from a transmitter site near Marieville. In 1978 the CBC consolidated its two AM transmitters for Montreal at a site in Brossard, on the south shore of Montreal.

The AM transmitter allowed CBM to be heard across most of the eastern half of North America at night, including much of Eastern Canada. However, it was difficult to hear in some parts of Montreal during the day. To solve the problem, CBM got permission to move to the FM band on July 4, 1997.^[1] The FM transmitter went on the air in 1998, and the AM transmitter was shut down in May 1999, four months after French-language sister station CBF, which got permission to move to FM at the same time and which shared CBM's transmitter site in Brossard, shut down its own AM transmitter on 690 kHz. The 940 outlet is a Class A clear-channel station which is nulled slightly in the direction of Mexico City to protect the other Class A station on 940 kHz, XEQ. There are plans to return it to service, offering French-language commercial programming.

The call sign change to CBME-FM occurred in order to distinguish the station from sister station CBM-FM.

Local programming

The station's local programs are Daybreak in the mornings and Homerun in the afternoons. The station also produces the Quebec edition of Radio Noon, which airs on all CBC Radio One transmitters throughout the province.

The station also broadcasts All in a Weekend on Saturday and Sunday mornings, and Cinq à Six on Saturdays.

Transmitters

CBM once operated a large network of repeaters across the eastern two-thirds of Quebec. However, most of those repeaters were transferred to the license of CBVE-FM in Quebec City when it became a separate station in 1994.

Because of deficiencies with the main FM signal which did not exist when the station was on AM, CBME-FM added FM rebroadcasting transmitters with directional antennas in the western part of Montreal (98 watts, from the corner of Cavendish and Sherbrooke Streets in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce) and in Cowansville (2,700 watts).

Rebroadcasters of CBME-FM
City of license	Identifier	Frequency	Power	Class	RECNet	CRTC Decision
Cowansville	CBMG-FM	101.9 FM	2,700 watts	B1	Query	2002-128
Montreal (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)	CBME-FM-1	104.7 FM	98 watts	A1	Query	2003-196

The call sign CBME was formerly used for a low-power AM repeater in La Tuque, Quebec which changed to CBVE-1.

References

↑ Decision CRTC 97-294

External links

Radio stations in Montreal and surrounding area

Montreal AM	CKGM 690 CKAC 730 CJAD 800 CFNV 940 CHRF 980 CFMB 1280 CJWI 1410 CHOU 1450 CHRN 1610 CJRS 1650 CJLO 1690 Defunct CINF 690 CINW 940 CJMS 1280 CHLP 1410 CKO/CFOX 1470 CKLM 1570

Montreal FM	CHDO 88.1 CBME 88.5 CISM 89.3 CKUT 90.3 CHIL 90.7 CIRA 91.3 CKLX 91.9 CKBE 92.5 CBM 93.5 CKMF 94.3 CBF 95.1 CJFM 95.9 CKOI 96.9 CHOM 97.7 CJPX 99.5 CKVL 100.1 CBFX 100.7 CIBL 101.5 CBMG 101.9 CINQ 102.3 CILO 102.9 CHOU-1 104.5 CBME-1 104.7 CKDG 105.1 CKIN 106.3 CITE 107.3 Defunct CFTL 96.7 (Pirate) CJRM-FM 98.5 CKAV-10 106.7

Adjacent communities	Acton Vale CFID 103.7 Akwesasne CKON 97.3 Châteauguay/Candiac CHAI 101.9 Granby CFXM 104.9 Hudson/Saint-Lazare CHSV 106.7 Joliette CJLM 103.5 Kahnawake CKKI 89.9 CKRK 103.7 Laval CJLV 1570 CFGL 105.7 Longueuil CHMP 98.5 CHAA 103.3 Saint-Constant CJMS 1040 Saint-Hyacinthe CFEI 106.5 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu CFZZ 104.1 Salaberry-de-Valleyfield CKOD 103.1 Sorel-Tracy CJSO 101.7 Vaudreuil-Dorion CJVD 100.1 Defunct CHEF 1450 (Granby)

Specialty services	HMWN Radio Maria International Tamil Radio Radio Humsafar

Adjacent markets	North Country Region, NY Burlington VT / Plattsburgh NY Cornwall, ON

Quebec radio markets Abitibi-Témiscamingue Bas-Saint-Laurent Centre-du-Québec Chaudière-Appalaches Côte-Nord Gaspésie Gatineau Laurentides Mauricie Montreal Nord-du-Québec Quebec City Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Sherbrooke/Estrie See also List of radio stations in Quebec

CBC Radio stations in Canada

CBC Radio One	CBR Calgary CBCT Charlottetown CBY Corner Brook CBX Edmonton CBZF Fredericton CBG Gander CFGB Goose Bay CBT Grand Falls CBHA Halifax CHAK Inuvik CFFB Iqaluit CBYK Kamloops CBTK Kelowna CBKA La Ronge CBDQ Labrador City CBCL London CBAM Moncton CBME Montreal CBO Ottawa CBLA-2 Paris (Kitchener/Waterloo) CBYG Prince George CFPR Prince Rupert CBVE Quebec City CBQR Rankin Inlet CBD Saint John CBN St. John's CBCS Sudbury CBI Sydney CBWK Thompson CBQT Thunder Bay CBLA Toronto CBU Vancouver CBCV Victoria CBK Watrous (Regina/Saskatoon) CFWH Whitehorse CBEW Windsor CBW Winnipeg CFYK Yellowknife

CBC Radio 2	CBR Calgary CBX Edmonton CBH Halifax CBM Montreal CBOQ Ottawa CBK Regina CBN St. John's CBBS Sudbury CBI Sydney CBQ Thunder Bay CBL Toronto CBU Vancouver CBE Windsor CBW Winnipeg

See also	CBC Radio 3 SRC radio stations Weatheradio Canada Radio Canada International CBC North Bande à part

Coordinates: 45°30′20″N 73°35′30″W / 45.50556°N 73.59167°W / 45.50556; -73.59167

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