CFNV is a French languageAMradio station, owned by TTP Media operating in Montreal, Quebec. The station was licensed in 2011 and CRTC records indicated that the station was not in operation for the majority of the licence term. CFNV began test broadcasting in 2016, with a full-time power of 50,000 watts and a Francophonenews/talk format. Broadcasts started in 2017 with mainly music, rather than talk, using the branding AM 940 La Superstation. In July 2018, it was announced that CFNV would offer a French health and wellnessprogram format once the extended testing of the technical facilities was completed. The CRTC gave CFNV a short-term license renewal on August 21, 2018 to August 31, 2023.
Six years later, in 2016, the 940 AM frequency resurfaced when a new station, under the callsign CFNV, launched with plans for a Francophone news/talk format.
Licensing
With the closure of the Montreal station CINW, on July 29, 2011, the CRTC began taking other applications for the vacant 940 frequency. On September 7, 2011, the CRTC announced the applicants for the 940 frequency; competing against earlier owner Cogeco was Paul Tietolman, the son of broadcaster Jack Tietolman, who planned to use 940 for an anglophone news-talk formatted station. On November 21, 2011, Tietolman was awarded the frequency, but this was for a francophone news-talk instead, a format that he had originally applied for on 690. A year later, he and his two partners were granted a licence for English talk to be broadcast on 600 kHz in the spring of 2013. However, by that point, none of the stations that the TTP group applied for had signed on. On September 19, 2014, the CRTC gave the TTP group another year to commence broadcasting on 940 in French and 600 in English. This extension was the second and, originally, final one allowed for 940, giving the station until November 21, 2015 to commence broadcasting or face cancellation of its licence, however, it was renewed for an additional year on October 30, 2015, with November 21, 2016 now set as the cut-off date. On October 26, 2016, a test tone began on AM 940. Call letters were also announced on that date as CFNV. The station officially began on-air testing on November 16, 2016 with music and a recorded announcement promoting the launch of the new station with a phone number to report signal interference.
