CFWH-FM
CBC Radio One station in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
CFWH-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 94.5 MHz FM in Whitehorse, Yukon. The station broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network known as CBC North. Until its closure in 2012, CFWH's sister television station was CFWH-TV.
History
CFWH began broadcasting on February 24, 1944, as a radio station owned and operated by the Northwest Service Command of the United States Army Service Forces, the entity then responsible for maintenance of the Alaska Highway. The station was staffed by members of the United States Army, with programming furnished by the Special Services. By December 1945, a temporary landline connection to CJCA in Edmonton allowed for a relay of the CBC's Christmas Day programming that year.
Concurrent with the transfer of control of the Alaska Highway within Canada, on June 1, 1946, ownership of the station was transferred to the Canadian Army, Northwest Highway System. Most programming, however, continued to be supplied by the Armed Forces Radio Service, while volunteers from the Royal Canadian Air Force and the community at-large operated the station.
The Armed Forces Radio Service stopped deliveries of programming to CFWH in November 1952. Around the same time, the CBC began distributing recordings of CBC radio programming to remote radio stations within Canada, including CFWH. These recordings were made in Montreal and originally on disc, but soon transitioned to tape by April 1953. For CFWH, this meant that the station was able to obtain CBC programming on a consistent basis for the first time in its history.
The public source identifies “CFWH-FM” as cBC Radio One station in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around CFWH-FM, Radio and station.
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