CBAM-FM

CBAM-FM is a radio station broadcasting at 106.1 MHz from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, and is the local Radio One station of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CBAM broadcasts with a power of 69,500 watts.

CBAM-FM
Broadcast areaEastern New Brunswick
Frequency106.1 MHz (FM)
BrandingCBC Radio One
Programming
FormatNews/Talk
Ownership
OwnerCanadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBAF-FM, CBAFT-DT
History
First air date
April 8, 1939
Former call signs
CBA (1939-2008)
Former frequencies
1050 kHz (AM) (1939-1941)
1070 kHz (1941-2008)
Call sign meaning
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Atlantic Moncton
Technical information
ClassC1
ERP69,500 watts horizontal polarization
34,300 watts vertical polarization
HAAT211 meters (692 ft)
Links
WebsiteCBC New Brunswick

History

The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission owned and operated a station in Moncton under the call letters CRCA, which has previously been CNR Radio station CNRA. The station was closed down in on October 31, 1933 in anticipation of the construction of a more powerful transmitter in nearby Sackville that would cover the Maritime provinces.[1][2] The CRBC was closed down in 1936 and replaced by the CBC, which inherited the project.[3]

CBA 1070 AM

On April 8, 1939, the station signed on as CBA, a 50,000-watt clear-channel station at 1050 AM. It was the CBC's clear-channel outlet for the Maritime provinces, heard in the daytime over much of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and at night audible over much of Eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States.

As a result of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement treaty, it moved to 1070 AM on March 29, 1941. The original city of licence was Sackville, the location of the transmitter site. The city of licence was later changed to Moncton in 1968 when the CBA transmitter, one 460-foot tower (140 metres), moved to Dover Road in the rural community of Fox Creek near Moncton. In the 1950s and 1960s, CBA's studios were located on St. George Street in Moncton.

In September 1970, CBA and its French-language counterparts CBAF and CBAFT were given approval to relocate their studios and offices in a new complex at 250 Archibald Street (today known as University Avenue).

Moving to 106.1 FM

On January 8, 2007, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the station's proposed move to 106.1 FM.[4] Since Radio 2 had the local call sign of CBA-FM, CBA adopted the CBAM-FM call sign. The engineers were at the AM transmitter site on Dover Road in Dieppe to say goodbye to the old AM signal that signed off for good on the morning of April 7, 2008, shortly after the 8:30 CBC news.[5][6] CBA was the last AM station in eastern New Brunswick, and the CBC wanted to stop a drop in market share.

CBAM was the former call sign of a defunct CBC low-power AM transmitter in Edmundston, which converted to FM as CBAN-FM, an FM rebroadcaster of CBZF-FM.

The original CBA transmitter site at the Tantramar Marshes near Sackville continued to broadcast Radio Canada International around the world on shortwave radio as well as relay broadcasts for several foreign shortwave broadcasters. For the purposes of CRTC licensing, the Sackville complex was designated under the call letters CKCX.[7] The shortwave site discontinued broadcasts on December 1, 2012, after which its facilities were dismantled.[8]

Local programming

CBAM currently produces a local news and current-affairs morning drive time program, Information Morning. It also carries midday, afternoon and weekend morning shows produced at CBHA-FM Halifax, Nova Scotia for Atlantic Canada. Every November, CBAM-FM hosts a local radiothon for the Dr. Georges-L. Dumont Hospital Foundation, with proceeds going to the Tree of Hope Campaign. This radiothon airs only on CBAM-FM.

Staff

Current staff
  • Jonna Brewer - Host, Information Morning
  • Karin Reid LeBlanc - Executive Producer, Moncton
  • Vanessa Blanch - Morning news editor, CBC News
  • Shane Magee - reporter, CBC News
  • Kate Letterick - reporter, CBC News

Former staff
  • Jo-Ann Roberts - co-host of Information Morning (currently at CBCV-FM Victoria)
  • Brent Taylor - co-host of Information Morning (now retired)
  • Rhonda Whittaker - host of Information Morning
  • Rhonda Day - co-host of Mainstreet (1985-1986)
  • Dave MacDonald - host, Information Morning

Rebroadcasters

CBAM-FM has the following rebroadcasters:

Rebroadcasters of CBAM-FM
City of licenseIdentifierFrequencyRECNetCRTC Decision
Neguac-Allardville CBAA-FM 97.9 FMQuery
Campbellton CBAE-FM 90.5 FMQuery
Sackville CBAM-FM-1 105.7 FMQueryCRTC 2010-67

On October 25, 2013, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to relocate the facilities of CBAM-FM-1 Sackville to a new transmission site south of Ogden Mill; this was due to the closure of the CBC's shortwave facilities, where the local repeater was also located.[9][8]

References
  1. "CNR Radio Out - CRBC In | History of Canadian Broadcasting".
  2. "CBAM-FM | History of Canadian Broadcasting".
  3. "The Birth and Death of The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (1932-1936) | History of Canadian Broadcasting".
  4. CRTC Decisions 2007-01-08
  5. NorthEast Radio Watch 2008-03-24
  6. NorthEast Radio Watch 2008-04-07
  7. CRTC Decision CRTC 2001-518 2001-08-24
  8. "ARCHIVED - CFFB Iqaluit – New transmitters in Puvirnituq, Kuujjuarapik, Inukjuak, Salluit and Kuujjuaq (Fort Chimo) – Correction". 5 November 2012.
  9. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-564, CBCS-FM Sudbury and its transmitter CBLJ-FM Wawa; CBVE-FM Québec and its transmitter CBVG-FM Gaspé; and CBAM-FM Moncton and its transmitter CBAM-FM-1 Sackville –Technical changes, CRTC, October 25, 2013

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