CBEW-FM

Windsor, Ontario Canada
Broadcast area	Southwestern Ontario
Frequency	97.5MHz (FM)
Branding	CBC Radio One
Programming
Language	English
Format	News/Talk
Ownership
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations	CBE-FM,CBEF,CBET-DT
History
First air date	February 14,1935 (as CRCW) July 1,1950 (relaunch as CBE) July 1,2011 (as CBEW-FM)
Former call signs	CRCW (1935–1937) CBW (1937–1938) CBE (1950–2011)
Former frequencies	600kHz (AM) (1935–1938) 1550 kHz (1950–2011)
Call sign meaning	Canadian Broadcasting CorporationEssex County Windsor
Technical information
Class	B
ERP	2,300watts average 13,800 watts peak
HAAT	427 feet (130 m)
Transmitter coordinates	42°09′12″N82°57′11″W / 42.1533°N 82.9531°W /42.1533; -82.9531
Links
Website	www.cbc.ca/windsor/

CBEW-FM (97.5MHz) is thecall sign of theCBC Radio One station based in and servingWindsor, Ontario, Canada. CBEW broadcasts from transmission facilities atMcGregor and also reaches the nearbyDetroit area and parts of Southwestern Ontario through relay transmitters inChatham–Kent,Leamington, andSarnia.

The station first broadcast on February 14, 1935 as aCRBC station CRCW 600 AM, which broadcast until 1938 (changing its call sign to CBW in 1937 after the CRBC became the CBC).^[1] Between 1938 and 1950, CBC Radio programming was aired on private affiliateCKLW. A CBC-owned station was subsequently relaunched in 1950 using the CBEcall sign and 1550 frequency. Regional FM rebroadcasters were added in 1977.

On May 9, 2008, the CRTC approved the station's application to launch a low-power nested FMrebroadcaster (CBE-1-FM) in Windsor, at 102.3 FM.^[2] Six months later, on November 13, 2008, the CBC applied to theCRTC to convert CBE from the AM band to the FM band on 97.5 MHz, to revoke its previous request for CBE-1, and to include a new FM rebroadcaster inLeamington on 91.9 MHz (which was originally planned for 91.5 MHz but was moved due to conflict with Windsor stationCJAM-FM which, until October 2009, was also on 91.5).^[3] The new 97.5 main signal would broadcast with a directional antenna to the southeast, to avoid interference with two other stations on 97.5,London'sCIQM-FM andLansing, Michigan'sWJIM-FM.^[4][5]

On June 16, 2009, CBE received approval for its conversion to FM and for its Leamington repeater.^[6] Originally, no time frame was given for the AM to FM transition, though after the new FM signal would sign on, the AM signal was to go silent after three months of simulcasting, with the repeater signal on 102.3 to close within thirty days of the start-up of the 97.5 signal. That decision came following the CRTC approval for CJAM to relocate to 99.1 in March 2009.^[7] The 97.5 facilities began testing on December 1, 2010,^[8] the start of a 7-month testing stage that also included resolving issues between the new signal and second-adjacent stations inDetroit (WXYT-FM 97.1 andWJLB 97.9).^[9] The station officially launched on July 1, 2011^[10][11] under thecall sign of CBEW-FM (which was the call sign for adefunct CBC radio transmitter inFraserdale).

In accordance with the original transition plans,^[6] the CBC announced that CBE would close down on September 30, 2011.^[11] Sometime after midnight on October 1, 2011, without fanfare, CBE's 10,000-watt Class-A 1550AM signal was either powered down or shutdown.^[12] According to Scott Fybush's Northeast Radio Watch, CBE 1550 AM's sign-off happened without fanfare; indeed, the scheduled midnight end to CBE was extended out for a bit as the station came back on and off the air several times before finally dropping audio at 12:25 a.m. October 1, leaving just a dead carrier on 1550 AM.^[13]

In May 2012, the CBC filed a request with the CRTC to move Windsor'sPremière Chaîne stationCBEF to CBE's former frequency and transmitter, owing to potential issues with the age of the facilities andrust found on its tower in August 2011.^[14] The move was approved by the CRTC on October 16, 2012. The move would bring programming back to 1550 for the first time since CBE's sign-off.^[15]

CBEW produces thelocal morning programWindsor Morning, hosted by Amy Dodge.^[16]

Prior to 2015, the station produced the local afternoon programThe Bridge, hosted by Bob Steele. In 2015 that program was renamedAfternoon Drive, expanded its focus to cover much of theSouthwestern Ontario region, and was added to the schedule of the network'sLondon stationCBCL-FM; in 2017, the program's production was moved to London, concurrently with the launch of a new local morning program on that station.^[17] The program is now hosted by Matt Allen.

Former repeater, now shut down:

The 102.3 frequency is now used byCINA-FM, which signed on in September 2012.

• CBC Windsor
• CBEW-FM at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by theCanadian Communications Foundation
• CBEW-FM in the REC Canadian station database

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• 1935 establishments in Ontario

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