CBJ-FM


CBJ-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Saguenay, Quebec.
Owned and operated by the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it broadcasts on 93.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 50,000 watts using an omnidirectional antenna.
The station has an ad-free news/talk format and is part of the Ici Radio-Canada Première network, which operates across Canada.
The station originated in 1933 as CRCS, owned and operated by the CRBC and based in Chicoutimi. It became CBJ when the CRBC became the CBC. Originally located on 1580 kHz, the station moved to FM in 1999. The AM signal was a 50,000-watt clear channel station from 1977 onward, and was well known as an extremely reliable DX signal at night. It was often used by people who wanted to receive Première Chaîne when they were travelling just about anywhere in the eastern half of North America. The frequency has been reactivated, CKDO, Oshawa
The station's current local programs are Y'a des matins, in the morning from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., and Style libre in the afternoon from 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Saturday morning program, Samedi et rien d'autre, originates from CBF-FM Montreal. On public holidays, its local programs are replaced with local shows airing provincewide produced by different outlets in turn.

Repeaters

Because of deficiencies with the main FM signal which did not exist when the station was on AM, CBJ-FM operates a relay, CBJ-FM-6, to serve nearby La Baie, now part of Saguenay. That relay is one of the few co-channel relays used in Canada, meaning that it is also broadcasting on 93.7 MHz; this solution was chosen to permit people to listen to the station in their cars continuously between Chicoutimi and La Baie without having to switch to a new frequency, de facto extending the main signal of CBJ-FM. CBJ-FM-6 operates using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 16 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 86 watts.
Other relays operated by CBJ-FM include the following: