CBAF-FM-5 is a French-language

French language

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 Canadian radio station

Radio station

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 located in Halifax

Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia

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, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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Owned and operated by the (government-owned) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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 (French: Société Radio-Canada), it broadcasts on 92.3 MHz with an effective radiated power of 91,000 watts (class C) using an omnidirectional antenna

Omnidirectional antenna

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The station has an ad-free news/talk

Talk radio

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 format

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 and is part of the Première Chaîne network, which operates across Canada. Like all Première Chaîne stations, but unlike most FM

FM broadcasting

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 stations, it broadcasts in mono

Monaural

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The station signed on in 1979 as a rebroadcaster of CBAF in Moncton. In 1987, it became a separate station, despite retaining rebroadcaster-like calls.

The station produces a morning drive show (Le Réveil, Monday to Thursday from 6 to 9 a.m. and Friday from 6 to 10 a.m.) and an afternoon drive show (Les 400 coups, Monday to Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.) Its afternoon program also airs on CBAF-FM-15

CBAF-FM-15

CBAF-FM-15 is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.Owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , it broadcasts on 88.1 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 33,500 watts and a peak effective...

 in Charlottetown

Charlottetown

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, Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

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CBAF-FM-5 was originally identified as CBAF-19-FM; the call sign change took effect on September 1, 1989,
as the old 1300 kHz AM

AM broadcasting

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 signal of CBAF

CBAF-FM

CBAF-FM-5 in Halifax and CBAF-FM-15 in Charlottetown were once satellites of CBAF, but are now stations in their own right despite retaining rebroadcaster-like callsigns. CBAF-FM-5 and CBAF-FM-15 officially became separately licenced in 1987 and 1994 respectively....

 was shut down.

The station also serves as the Première Chaîne outlet for Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador

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, by way of two repeaters.

Transmitters

External links

Première Chaîne

• CBAF history at Canadian Communications Foundation
  Canadian Communications Foundation
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