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| Broadcast area | National Capital Region Eastern Ontario Outaouais |
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| Frequency | 94.9MHz (FM) |
| Branding | 94,9Rouge |
| Programming | |
| Format | Adult Contemporary (French) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | |
| CKTF-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | January 1,1970 |
Former call signs | CKCH-FM (1970 - ?) |
Call sign meaning | CI Modulation deFréquence (French for "frequency modulation") |
| Technical information | |
| Class | C1 |
| ERP | 84,000watts |
| HAAT | 323 meters (1,060 ft) |
| Translator(s) | CIMF-FM-1 88.9MHzHawkesbury |
| Links | |
| Website | iheartradio.ca/rouge-fm/rouge-fm-gatineau-ottawa |
CIMF-FM (94.9MHz) is aFrench-language Canadianradio station inGatineau,Quebec, and serving theNational Capital Region, includingOttawa,Ontario. It has anadult contemporaryformat and is part ofBell Canada'sRouge FM network which operates across Quebec andEastern Ontario. Theradio studios and offices are in Gatineau at 215Boulevard Saint-Joseph in the same building as co-owned 104.1CKTF-FM, part of theNRJ radio network.
CIMF-FM has aneffective radiated power (ERP) of 84,000watts. It is aClass C1 station using anomnidirectional antenna located inCamp Fortune, Quebec, withinGatineau Park.[1]
The stationsigned on the air on January 1, 1970. Its originalcall sign wasCKCH-FM as thesister station to the now-defunctCKCH 970 AM. The AM station wentsilent on September 30, 1994, when the "Telemedia" and "Radiomutuel" networks merged to form the "Radiomédia" network (now "Corus Québec").
CKCH-FM, and laterCIMF-FM, had abeautiful music format for its first 20 years, playing mostly instrumentalcover songs of popular hits. Over time, to stay contemporary, it added more soft vocals. The station switched tosoft adult contemporary in 1990 and the station was renamedCIMF Rock-Détente.
In 2004, Astral Media revamped the Rock Détente network with a new logo. This resulted in CIMF Rock-Détente being renamed to simply94,9 RockDétente. As such, the station no longer publicly uses itscall sign (although the call letters were brought back asstation identification in 2011).
On August 18, 2011, at 4 p.m., the station ended its 21-year run with the "RockDétente" branding. All "RockDétente" stations, including CIMF, 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.
| City of license | Identifier | Frequency | Power | Class | RECNet | CRTC Decision |
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| Hawkesbury | CIMF-FM-1 | 88.9 FM | 1,250watts | A | Query | Decision CRTC 2001-239 |
On October 31, 2000, Télémédia Radio was denied a licence to add a new FM transmitter to operate on 107.7 MHz atHawkesbury,Ontario.[2]
Since 2001, the station operated a relay transmitter in Hawkesbury, Ontario, approximately 100 kilometres east of Ottawa/Gatineau. This results from a deal between Telemedia (which then owned CIMF-FM) andRadio-Canada to allow the latter to raise the power ofCBF-FM 95.1 MHz inMontreal,Quebec from 17,030 to 100,000 watts. The relay, CIMF-FM-1 in Hawkesbury, operates on 88.9 MHz using adirectional antenna with an averageeffective radiated power of 759watts and a peak effective radiated power of 1,250 watts (class A).[3]
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