CHFA-FM
Ici Radio-Canada Première station in Edmonton
CHFA-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of Radio-Canada's Ici Radio-Canada Première network in Edmonton, Alberta.
The station was launched in 1949 by a local non-profit consortium to bring French radio service to Edmonton, and was directly acquired by the network in 1974.
The station serves the entire province of Alberta from its studios in Edmonton, although it also maintains a smaller bureau in Calgary. For most of its history, the station broadcast on the AM band on 680 kHz. On January 20, 2012, it was announced that Radio-Canada planned to close down CHFA's AM transmitter on 680, with its nested FM repeater in Edmonton, CHFA-10-FM on 101.1 MHz, swapping places with the much-stronger Espace musique station CBCX-FM-1 at 90.1 MHz. This application was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on June 22, 2012.
Rebroadcasters
On May 24, 2016, the CBC applied to add a new FM rebroadcaster at Jasper, Alberta. The new transmitter will operate at 101.1 MHz. The callsign for the new transmitter will be CHFA-FM-13.
On August 31, 2016, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate transmitters in Jasper on 101.1 MHz, Lake Louise on 102.7 MHz and Banff on 105.7 MHz that will rebroadcast the programming of its national French-language network service ICI Radio-Canada Première.
“CHFA-FM” enters the record as ici Radio-Canada Première station in Edmonton. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what CHFA-FM, Radio-Canada and Première can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2931437. VIAF identifies the subject as 146532640. The Library of Congress control number is n00091631. Authority coordinates are 53.523, -113.442. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1974, 2012 and 2016.
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