CKQB-FM

Infobox_Radio_station | name = CKQB-FM
city = Ottawa, Ontario
area = National Capital Region
Eastern Ontario


branding = The Bear
slogan = Ottawa's Best Rock
airdate = 1982 (AM)
1994 (FM)
frequency = 106.9 FM
format = active rock
erp = 84 kW
class = C1
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = CJSB (1982-1994)
owner = Astral Media
website = [http://www.thebear.fm/ thebear.fm]

CKQB is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts an active rock format at 106.9 FM in Ottawa and 99.7 FM in Pembroke (on a repeater). The station uses the on-air brand name The Bear.

History

CJSB was launched in 1982 by Standard Broadcasting at AM 540. The station was initially a mixture of music and talk programming, then became 'music of your life' & lite rock.

In 1988, the station adopted an active rock format (of which it still continues on today on FM) and the brand name 54 Rock.

The AM station signed off the air on August 31, 1994 and converted to FM on September 1, 1994, moving to the 106.9 frequency, once occupied by CKO from 1977 to 1989. [ [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/1993/DB93-636.HTM Decision CRTC 93-636] ]

In 2004, CKQB was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to operate an FM transmitter at Pembroke, Ontario on 99.7 FM, to rebroadcast the programming of CKQB's main station in Ottawa and provide better service to CKQB-FM’s listeners in Pembroke and in the surrounding west Ottawa Valley area. [ [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2004/db2004-60.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2004-60] ]

The station's music director, Kath Thompson, won the Canadian Music Industry Award for Music Director of the Year (Major Market) in 2007. On October 29, 2007, Astral Media took control of CKQB-FM as a result of its takeover of Standard Broadcasting.

Compilations Related to CKQB: 106.9 The Bear

* Unmuted: Ottawa Recording Artists United Against AIDS (1996)
* Unmuted II (1997)

References

External links

* [http://www.thebear.fm/ Official Site]
* [http://www.thebear.fm/player/player Listen Live]
* [http://www.myspace.com/scottlear Scott Lear's Myspace]
* [http://www.myspace.com/dylanblackradio Dylan Black's Myspace]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/radio/histories.php?id=468&historyID=236 CKQB history at Canadian Communications Foundation]
*RecnetCanada|CKQB-FM