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CFZZ-FM
CFZZ-FM is a French language Canadian radio station located in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec and serving the Greater Montreal Area as a rimshot signal. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it is part of the Boom FM network. As such, the station has an oldies format.
Originally known as CHRS, the station operated on 1090 kHz as one of the very few daytime-only stations in Canada. Thanks to errors from BBM, CHRS once managed in the 1970s
CFZZ-FM joined the network in 2005 after these stations were acquired by Astral Media from Corus Entertainment. All four stations previously had an adult contemporary format. Since Astral Media already has two FM stations in each of Quebec's larger markets, it is impossible for them under current Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulations to launch Boom FM stations in these markets without dumping either the Énergie or the Rouge FM format, both of which are very successful according to Bureau of Broadcast Measurement (BBM) ratings.