CBCX-FM
Ici Musique station in Calgary
CBCX-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts Radio-Canada's Ici Musique network at 89.7 FM in Calgary, Alberta. CBCX's studios are located in the Cambrian Wellness Centre, northwest of downtown Calgary, while its transmitter is located at Old Banff Coach Road and 85 Street Southwest in Calgary.
The station also has a class A rebroadcaster CBCX-FM-1 in Edmonton at 101.1 MHz, with a power of 3,931 watts, and its transmitter located at 53°32′26.16″N 113°29′52.80″W.
Both of the station's transmitters were licensed in 2002 and launched in early 2003.
On January 20, 2012, it was announced that Radio-Canada planned to close down the AM transmitter of Edmonton's Première Chaîne outlet, CHFA, and swap frequencies between its nested repeater in Edmonton, CHFA-10-FM (101.1), and the much-stronger CBCX-FM-1 (90.1). This application was approved on June 22, 2012.
The public source identifies “CBCX-FM” as ici Musique station in Calgary. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around CBCX-FM, Musique and station.
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This entry incorporates text from “CBCX-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.