CBME-FM

Montreal, Quebec Canada
Broadcast area	Greater Montreal
Frequency	88.5MHz (FM)
Branding	CBC Radio One
Programming
Language	English
Format	News/talk
Ownership
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations	CBM-FM,CBF-FM,CBFX-FM,CBMT-DT,CBFT-DT
History
First air date	December 11,1937
Former call signs	CRCM (1933–1937) CBM (1937–1998)
Former frequencies	1060kHz (AM) (1933–1937) 960 kHz (1937–1941) 940 kHz (1941–1998)
Call sign meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Montreal English
Technical information
Class	C1
ERP	11,510watts
HAAT	242.7 meters (796 ft)
Links
Website	CBC Montreal

CBME-FM is anEnglish-languageradio station located inMontreal, Quebec, Canada.

Owned and operated by the government-ownedCanadian Broadcasting Corporation, it broadcasts on 88.5MHz using adirectional antenna with an averageeffective radiated power of 11,510watts and a peak effective radiated power of 25,000 watts (class B) from atransmitter atopMount Royal.

The station has acommercial-freenews/talkformat and is part of theCBC Radio One network which operates across Canada. Like all CBC Radio One stations, but unlike most FM stations, it broadcasts inmono. Some local shows and newscasts produced at CBME-FM are also heard on a chain of stations across Quebec.

Its studios and offices, along with those ofsister stationsCBM-FM,CBF-FM andCBFX-FM are located at the Nouvelle Maison de Radio-Canada at 1000Papineau Avenue.Master control is at theCanadian Broadcasting Centre inToronto.

The station was launched in 1933 on 1050AM and was originally known as CRCM, operated by theCanadian Radio Broadcasting Commission. When ownership was transferred to the CBC in 1937, the stationcall sign became CBM and the frequency was changed to 960. On March 29, 1941, like most radio stations in North America, CBM moved to 940. Originally 5,000 watts, CBM's power was increased to 50,000 watts, the maximum power permitted by theCRTC for AM stations.

Prior to 1978, CBM broadcast from a transmitter site nearMarieville. In 1978 the CBC consolidated its two AM transmitters for Montreal at a site inBrossard, on the south shore of Montreal.

The AM transmitter allowed CBM to be heard across most of the eastern half ofNorth America at night, including much ofEastern Canada. However, it was difficult to hear in some parts of Montreal during the day. To solve the problem, CBM got permission to move to 88.5FM on July 4, 1997.^[1] The FM transmitter went on the air in 1998, and the AM transmitter was shut down in May 1999, four months afterFrench-language sister stationCBF, which got permission to move to FM at the same time and which shared CBM's transmitter site in Brossard, shut down its own AM transmitter on 690 kHz. The 940 outlet is a Class Aclear-channel station which is nulled slightly in the direction ofMexico City to protect the other Class A station on 940,XEQ-AM. There are plans to return it to service, offeringFrench-language commercial programming.

The call sign change to CBME-FM occurred in order to distinguish the station fromsister stationCBM-FM.

The station'slocal programs areDaybreak Montreal (hosted by Sean Henry) in the morning andLet's Go (hosted by Sabrina Marandola) in the afternoon. The station also produces the Quebec edition ofRadio Noon, which airs on all Radio One transmitters throughout the province.

The station also broadcastsAll in a Weekend on Saturday and Sunday mornings, andCinq à Six on Saturdays.

CBM once operated a large network ofrepeaters across the eastern two-thirds of Quebec. However, most of those repeaters were transferred to the license ofCBVE-FM inQuebec City when it became a separate station in 1994.

Because of deficiencies with the main FM signal which did not exist when the station was on AM, CBME-FM added FM rebroadcasting transmitters with directional antennas in the western part of Montreal (98 watts, from the corner of Cavendish andSherbrooke Streets inNotre-Dame-de-Grâce) and in Cowansville (2,700 watts).

The call sign CBME was formerly used for a low-power AM repeater inLa Tuque which changed toCBVE-1.

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

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• Radio stations in Montreal
• CBC Radio One stations
• Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
• English-language radio stations in Quebec
• Radio stations established in 1937
• 1937 establishments in Quebec

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