CFAD-FM
former radio station in Salmo, British Columbia
CFAD-FM was a community radio station in Salmo, British Columbia.
Owned by Salmo FM Radio Society, the station was licensed on July 31, 2008. It began broadcasting on October 11, 2008, at 92.1 MHz.
The station was one of several new community radio stations launched in the Kootenay region in the 2000s. Others include CJLY-FM in Nelson, CHLI-FM in Rossland, CJHQ-FM in Nakusp and CIDO-FM in Creston. CFAD was a member of the National Campus and Community Radio Association.
On May 2, 2012, Salmo FM Radio Society received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate an English language FM community radio station to serve Salmo on the frequency of 91.1 MHz.
After 7 years broadcasting as a licensed community radio station, on January 3, 2017, the Salmo FM Radio Society turned off its transmitter and ceased broadcasting.
The public source identifies “CFAD-FM” as former radio station in Salmo, British Columbia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around CFAD-FM, former and radio.
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This entry incorporates text from “CFAD-FM” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.