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CFRC-FM
CFRC-FM is the campus radio station at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
The station has one of the longest radio histories in the world, surpassed only by the Marconi companies. CFRC remains in operation at the present time and serves Queen's University and the greater Kingston community. The station broadcasts at 101.9 MHz, although for most of its past it operated at "1490 on the AM dial," including a period during which it was simulcast on 1490 kHz
In 1938, in what was possibly the station's most notable broadcast, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's convocation speech at the university was relayed by CFRC to all North American radio networks.
CFRC remained a CBC station for several years however, with a weak signal and with commercial limitations placed on it by the university (such as a ban on advertising for patent medicine), the "Whig-Standard" sought its own station and, in 1942, launched CKWS AM 960 (now an FM station)