CITE-FM
radio station in Montreal, Quebec
CITE-FM (107.3 MHz) is a French-language radio station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Owned and operated by Bell Media, it airs an adult contemporary format. It is also the flagship station of the "Rouge FM" network, which operates across Quebec and in the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market. The studios and offices are located at the Bell Media building at 1717 Boulevard René-Lévesque East in Downtown Montreal.
CITE-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 42,900 watts, using an omnidirectional antenna from the Mount Royal candelabra tower. It broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format, with its HD2 subchannel rebroadcasting 800 CJAD's talk format and its HD3 subchannel airing CKGM's sports format.
History
Radio-Cité (1977–1990)
CITE-FM signed on the air on May 7, 1977 as a sister station to 730 CKAC, owned by Telemedia. While it was still being approved and built, the station was called CKAC-FM, though it would instead go on the air as CITE-FM. The previous year, a co-owned FM station in Sherbrooke at 102.7 began using the call letters CITE-FM. With the sign-on of 107.3 in Montreal, the Sherbrooke station became CITE-FM-1. That "-1" suffix usually indicates a full-time rebroadcaster of the non-numbered station, though CITE-FM-1 continued to have its own local personalities and advertising with a similar playlist. CITE-FM-1 is also easily heard in the eastern portion of the Montreal market, and Telemedia likely used the similar call letters for overall ratings purposes involving both stations.
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