CITE-FM-1

Sherbrooke,Quebec
Broadcast area	Estrie Centre-du-Québec Lanaudière Montérégie Montreal Northeast Kingdom Coös County,New Hampshire
Frequency	102.7MHz (FM)
Branding	102,7Rouge
Programming
Format	Adult contemporary (French)
Ownership
Owner	Bell Media (Bell Media Radio)
Sister stations	CIMO-FM,CFKS-DT
History
First air date	1960
Former call signs	CHLT-FM (1960–1977) CITE-FM (1977)
Call sign meaning	Derived from theFrench word for "City"
Technical information
Class	C1
ERP	92kWs
HAAT	594 meters (1,949 ft)
Repeater(s)	CITE-FM-2 94.5MHzSherbrooke
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	iheartradio.ca/rouge-fm/rouge-fm-estrie

CITE-FM-1 is aFrench-languageradio station located inSherbrooke,Quebec, Canada.

Owned and operated byBell Media, it broadcasts on 102.7MHz with aneffective radiated power of 92,000watts (class C1) using anomnidirectional antenna onMount Orford. This gives the station an impressive coverage area, as far west asMontreal, and as far south asSt. Johnsbury,Vermont andLittleton,New Hampshire. However, it suffers from severe deficiencies in downtown Sherbrooke, most likely due to tall buildings blocking its signal in some areas. As a result, the station also operates a low-power relay in Sherbrooke,CITE-FM-2, which broadcasts on 94.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 50 watts, also using an omnidirectional antenna.

The station has anadult contemporaryformat, and is part of the "Rouge FM" (formerly "RockDétente") network which operates across Quebec andEastern Ontario.

Although the station'scall sign suggests it is a relay ofCITE-FM inMontreal, it is not actually a relay and programs from Montreal are not more common than on other Rouge FM stations (which have independent call signs). The reason for this irregular call sign is unclear. There is no known record among CRTC decisions suggesting that CITE-FM-1 was ever a full-time relay of CITE-FM in Montreal, or that the proportion of programming coming from Montreal was ever higher than for other Rouge FM stations. However, the station's signal reaches into the Montreal area, and anecdotal observations suggest that a modest but still noticeable number of Montreal-area listeners listen to it rather than CITE-FM. Since it is highly plausible that some of these listeners report ambiguously their listening inBBM diaries, as a result their listening to the Sherbrooke station would be assigned as per BBM rules to the Montreal station, which may explain the Sherbrooke station's unusual call sign.

CITE-FM-1 started asCHLT-FM in 1960, as it was created as asister station to CHLT AM (now known asCKOY-FM, which previously used theCHLT-FM calls after its move from AM to FM), also in Sherbrooke. Since early 2005, they are no longer sister stations, as CKOY-FM is now owned byCogeco. CITE-FM-1 was briefly known asCITE-FM in 1977, just before CITE-FM in Montreal started to broadcast.

On August 28, 1976, CHLT-FM became CITE-FM.^[1]

On August 18, 2011, at 4:00 p.m.EDT, all "RockDétente" stations, including CITE-FM-1, rebranded asRouge FM. The last song under "RockDétente" was "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" byCeline Dion, followed by a tribute of the branding. The first song under "Rouge" was "I Gotta Feeling" byBlack Eyed Peas.

• 102,7 Rouge
• CITE-FM-1 at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by theCanadian Communications Foundation
• CITE-FM-1 in the REC Canadian station database
  • CITE-FM-2 in the REC Canadian station database

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• Radio stations in Sherbrooke
• Bell Media radio stations
• Soft adult contemporary radio stations in Canada
• French-language radio stations in Quebec
• Radio stations established in 1960
• 1960 establishments in Quebec

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