CANADIAN RADIO NEWS –Jon Pearkins
jon@pearkins.com
All times Eastern Local Time (ELT).
1230 NU Iqaluit CFFB
Before CFFB can go off the air, CFFB-FM-3 Iqaluit must increase power (ERP) from 179 watts to 640 watts, to serve, in its primary contour, at least as many listeners as are served in CFFB’s 1 kW primary contour. Oddly enough, the CBC plans to lower “the effective height of the antenna above average terrain (EHAAT) from -37.4 metres to -41.9 metres”. CFFB-FM-3 will remain on 91.1 MHz.
1280 QC Montreal CFMB
Noted off the air at 0850 March 8th.
1440 AB Wetaskiwin CKJR
As mentioned last week, Sports 1440 has applied to run their North-facing directional pattern full-time instead of just at night, which will significantly improve their signal into their target market, Edmonton. The Application is currently Open for Comments, with a Comment deadline of March 20th.
1470 BC Vancouver CJVB
Transmitter was turned off at 0245 March 5th, the day that the license expired, after running Open Carrier for a few hours. An audio loop was first heard March 2nd, in English and Chinese, announcing that CJVB-1470 was going off the air, mentioning that some programming was moving to co-owned CHKG-FM. CJVB had the honor of being on the NRC’s Unheard List for a quarter century, thanks to their very tight Null to the South, to protect nearby KAPS Mt. Vernon WA when they were on 1470. 15 years before CJVB first signed on, KAPS first applied for a license as a 1KW non-directional Daytimer. A year later, after discovering that 1470 was reserved for a Vancouver BC station on 1470, KAPS changed their Application to 500 watts directional, still daytime-only, with a null so deep to the North that, once they were on the air, you could still see the towers while driving North but could not hear their signal.
Tips from CFAX-1070 Victoria BC, Gilles Michaud, Theo Donnelly and belated thanks to Andrew Brade for some last minute changes to last week’s column.
Jon Pearkins jon@pearkins.com, IRCA DX Monitor March 14, published March 9 via WOR iog (2026-03-10)