CJMQ-FM

CJMQ is the community radio station of the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. It is uniquely mandated to serve the English community of the Eastern Townships. The regional city is Sherbrooke, Quebec. CJMQ transmits at an effective radiated power of 2000 watts. CJMQ broadcasts at a frequency of 88.9 FM and through the Vidéotron and Cogeco cable systems at 103.9 FM and 104.7 FM respectively. CJMQ also broadcasts via the internet. In its broadcast range is a population of about 225,000 people within a radius of 70 km.

CJMQ estimates that it has about 30,000 listeners. CJMQ is the only locally produced English language broadcaster in the Eastern Townships. CJMQ has a broadcast studio in downtown Sherbrooke, and a studio in Lennoxville, Quebec.

Your Morning Show

Your Morning Show, hosted by Zachary-Cy Vanasse and established in May of 2008, is CJMQ's first regularly scheduled morning show. It runs local news, provincial and national news, as well as sports, entertainment, editorials and music.It airs from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. EST every week day morning.

Licence

CJMQ 88.9 FM is licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as a Category A community radio station.

History

CJMQ originated as the closed-circuit campus radio station of Bishop's University as the "Radio Club of Bishop’s University" in the 1940s, It broadcast via carrier current transmission - localized within particular physical structures - at a frequency of 530 AM. In the 1940's it had a studio in the basement of Norton Hall (later first year's men's residence). With the construction of Bishop Mountain House (or the Student Union Building) the station acquired space in the basement and constructed their first studio. In the 1970's, as Radio Bishop's as it was then known, broadcast in the late evenings from the University over CKTS, the local English radio station in Sherbrooke. This continued to 1978 when CKTS had sufficient resources to cover their broadcasting day. Radio Bishop's supplied many DJs to CKTS over the years, some who went on professionally in Radio. In the early 1980's, the Station radically expanded and rebuilt their studios to meet the CBC's broadcast requirements, as well as acquiring a large complement of studio equipment from the Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation (including the sound console from Les Beaux Dimanches) and a complete studio from CJFM of Montreal. In the early 1980's Radio Bishop's changed its name to RCBU (Radio Champlain Bishop's University) to recognise the support from Champlain Regional College. In this period, the Station had an average budge of $2,000 from the Student's Executive Council (S.E.C.,later S.R.C)

In 1987, the campus radio station officially incorporated as "CJMQ Radio Bishop’s. Inc."

In 1995, CJMQ began broadcasting at an effective radiated power of 25 watts on the FM band to a broadcast audience within the town of Lennoxville. It was licensed by the CRTC as a "low power not-for-profit campus-community station, which meant it had to provide an alternative source of news, information, and entertainment programming. Transmitting power and antenna location meant that signal reception was not optimum: parts of Bishop’s University campus itself and one side of the main street in downtown Lennoxville received a static filled signal throughout the majority of the broadcast day.

In 1998, CJMQ increased its effective radiated power to 500 watts.

In 2004, the CRTC changed the licence from that of a campus radio station to that of a community radio station.

In 2008, CJMQ moved its studio to downtown Lennoxville, acquired a license to, and began broadcasting at 2000 watts and started their morning programming, Your Morning Show, hosted by Zachary-Cy Vanasse.

tation Managers

1976-77 Leonard Trollope1977-78 David Lyon1978-80 Dixon Kenner1980-82 Russell Peacock

See also

* CFRO-FM

References

Further reading

* [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2007/db2007-173.htm CRTC decision 2007-173]

External links

* [http://www.cjmq.fm CJMQ's Website]
*RecnetCanada|CJMQ-FM