CFFB (AM)

Infobox Radio Station


name=CFFB
airdate=1961
frequency=1230 KHz (AM)
city=Iqaluit, Nunavut
area=Nunavut
format=public broadcasting
owner=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
erp=1,000 watts
branding=CBC Radio One
CBC North
slogan=
class=B
website= [http://www.cbc.ca/north/ CBC North]
callsign_meaning=C F Frobisher Bay

CFFB is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 1230 AM in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The station broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network, and serves as the regional network centre for Nunavut for the CBC North Radio One network.

The local station began broadcasting on February 6, 1961. The original station was located at the "T1" building in Iqaluit. The station currently operates from the CBC Building at the Astro Hill Complex in the centre of Iqaluit.

With the advent of the Anik A series of communications satellites in the 1970s, CFFB was transformed from a local station to the regional production centre for northern CBC stations serving Canada's Eastern Arctic. Satellite distribution and the installation of local radio transmitters in most Eastern Arctic communities in the mid-1970s brought Inuktitut and English radio programs produced in Iqaluit, along with network CBC Radio to most communities in what is now Nunavut.

CBC Radio Two service is also provided in Iqaluit, broadcast at 88.3 FM with an effective radiated power of 800 watts. It provides a regular Eastern Time feed of the CBC Radio Two network, with no local program origination. The Radio Two transmitter in Iqaluit is licensed as a rebroadcaster of CBM-FM in Montreal.

See also CFFB-TV.

Local programming

The Iqaluit station produces most of CBC Radio's regional programs in Nunavut, including "Qulliq" on weekday mornings, the noon-hour program "Nipivut", "Tausunni" in the afternoons, along with "Saturday AM" and "Sunday AM" on weekend mornings. Other afternoon Inuktitut programs "Tuttavik" and "Tusaajaksat" originate in Kuujjuaq, Quebec and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, respectively. Some of the network's local programs air in both English and Inuktitut, while others air in Inuktitut only.

The station also differs significantly from the main CBC Radio One schedule. "Qulliq" airs from 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. Eastern Time, and is followed by abbreviated broadcasts of "The Current" and "Sounds Like Canada". In the afternoons, programming in Inuktitut, including "Tausunni" and "Tuttavik", airs in place of the national network program "Q".

Subsequently, in the evenings, the Inuktitut cultural magazines "Ullumi Tusaqsauqaujut" and "Sinnaksautit" originate at the Iqaluit station, airing at 10 and 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time respectively; the CBC Radio One network schedule follows at 11 p.m Eastern Time.

As the station already airs a more extensive schedule of local programming than most CBC Radio stations, however, it does "not" produce a Saturday afternoon regional arts magazine series for the territory. Instead, it airs "Bandwidth" from CBO-FM in Ottawa in the Saturday afternoon regional arts program block.

Rebroadcasters

CBC North Radio One/CFFB is broadcast on the following CBC owned and operated transmitters:

* CFFB-1-FM - Cambridge Bay - 101.9 ¹
* CFFB-2-FM - Kugluktuk - 101.9 ¹

* CBIH-FM - Cape Dorset - 105.1
* CBII-FM - Igloolik - 105.1
* CBIJ-FM - Pangnirtung - 105.1
* CBIK-FM - Pond Inlet - 105.1
* CBIL-FM - Resolute Bay - 105.1

CBQR-FM in Rankin Inlet is considered a separate originating station within the network; it produces a portion of the shared CBC North Nunavut schedule. The following transmitters are legally considered rebroadcasters of CBQR:

* CBIG-FM - Arviat - 105.1
* CBIA - Gjoa Haven - 640 AM
* CBIQ-FM - Taloyoak - 105.1

And on the following community-owned rebroadcasters

* CKAB-FM - Arctic Bay - 107.1
* CKQN-FM - Baker Lake - 99.3
* CFCI-FM - Chesterfield Inlet - 107.1
* CJCR-FM - Clyde River - 107.1
* CJZS-FM - Coral Harbour - 107.1
* CFGF-FM - Grise Fiord - 107.1
* - Kimmirut - 107.1
* CFPB-FM - Kugaaruk - 107.1
* VF2046 - Repulse Bay - 107.1
* - Qikiqtarjuaq - 107.1
* CKSN-FM - Sanikiluaq - 106.1
* CKWC-FM - Whale Cove - 106.1

¹ In Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk, the CBC North Radio One program service from the Northwest Territories also has rebroadcast transmitters, in order to provide those communities with noon and afternoon programming from CHAK in Inuvik. The program "Tusaavik" is broadcast in Inuvialuktun, an Inuktitut dialect close to Inuinnaqtun which is spoken in Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk. Other programs on the NWT feed include the Trailbreaker morning show and Trail's End afternoon shows from CBC North in Yellowknife. The Northwest Territories rebroadcasts in those communities is on FM 105.1.

External links

* [http://www.cbc.ca/north/ CBC North]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/frequency/frequency_nu.html Frequency Listings Radio One and Two]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/radio/histories.php?id=1046&historyID=927 CFFB history at Canadian Communications Foundation]