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CFMB
CFMB is a multilingual Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, owned by Evanov Radio Group. It broadcasts on 1280 kHz with a power of 50,000 watts full-time as a class B station, using a directional antenna with different patterns day and night (the nighttime pattern being significantly tighter). Its transmitter is located near Saint-Mathieu, while its studios are located on Papineau Avenue, Montreal.
The station has a multilingual format targeting ethnic minorities and broadcasts programming in 16 different languages.
History
permission to broadcast on 1280 kHz (hence their choice of call letters CJMS), they were denied that frequency as the old CJMS owners had chosen to sell their transmitter site to multilingual station CFMB, which applied successfully to move from 1410 kHz to 1280 kHz.
Trivia.
- CJMS was the world's first French-language station to broadcast in AM stereo. The station used the C-QUAM system, starting in June 1983, until it ceased operations.