CBLA-FM
City of license	Toronto, Ontario
Broadcast area	South-Central Ontario
Branding	CBC Radio One
First air date	1925
Format	public broadcasting
ERP	98,000 watts
Class	B
Callsign meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Great Lakes A
Former callsigns	CKGW (1925-1932) CRCT (1932-1937) CBL (1937-1999)
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Website	CBC Radio One

CBLA-FM is a Canadian radio station. A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting is the community that a Radio station or Television station Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information Radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This article is about Broadcast radio, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation. Public broadcasting refers to radio television and other electronic media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public In radio Telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power (ERP is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency (RF The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page It is the CBC Radio One station in Toronto, Ontario, broadcasting at 99. CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information Radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario 1 FM. See also Frequency modulation, FM band FM broadcasting is a broadcast Technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that

History

The station originally aired in 1925 as AM 910 CKGW, a commercial station owned by Gooderham and Worts. Due to the instability of frequency allocations in North America at the time, the station's frequency changed several times over the next number of years, to 960, 690, and finally clear channel 840. The term is also used in the context of T1 A clear channel, in its general sense is a communications channel, such as a radio In 1932, the station was leased by the CBC's predecessor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission. The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC was Canada's first Public broadcaster and the immediate precursor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It used the call letters CRCT until 1937, when the station was purchased outright by the CBC and adopted the callsign CBL, moving to a new transmitter facility in rural Hornby. Halton Hills is a Town in the the Regional Municipality of Halton, west of Toronto, Ontario, With NARBA in 1941, the station moved to 740 kHz; its former channel, now 860, went to CFRB. The hertz (symbol Hz) is a measure of Frequency, informally defined as the number of events occurring per Second. (See Canadian allocations changes under NARBA. The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement took effect on March 29, 1941, requiring nearly all Radio stations in North America to change )

Between 1938 and 1943, CBL had a rebroadcaster CBY to supplement coverage in Toronto. CJBC is a Canadian radio station which broadcasts at AM 860 in Toronto, Ontario. CBY broadcast on 960, switching to 1420 in 1939 and then to 1010 in 1941. CBY is now CJBC 860, Toronto's SRC station. CJBC is a Canadian radio station which broadcasts at AM 860 in Toronto, Ontario.

In 1946, CBL-FM was launched, bringing the CBC's FM network (now known as CBC Radio Two) to Toronto. CBL-FM is the CBC Radio Two station in Toronto Ontario, Canada. CBC Radio 2 is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It originally broadcast on the same 99. 1 frequency now used by CBLA, but moved to 94. 1 in 1966. (The 99. 1 frequency was vacant until 1977, when it was assigned to the CKO radio network. See also Chief knowledge officer CKO was a Canadian radio news network which operated from 1977 to 1989 CKO ceased operations in 1989, and the frequency was again vacant until it was assigned to CBLA. )

The CBC's transmitter tower on Jarvis Street in downtown Toronto, built in 1952, was for many years the tallest structure in Canada. The facility was used by CBL (studios only), CBL-FM, CBLT, CBLFT, CJRT and TVOntario. CBLT is the Television call sign for the CBC 's Television station in Toronto, Ontario. CBLFT is the Radio-Canada television station serving Franco-Ontarians in Toronto and most of Ontario, including the Western, CJRT-FM is a Canadian Public radio station which broadcasts at 91 TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO, ( Call signs CICA, CICE, CICO) is a publicly-funded educational English language In 1976, almost all broadcast signals in Toronto moved to the CN Tower; although the Jarvis St. The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and tourist Tower standing tall transmitter was no longer in use, the CBC continued to use the studio facilities at that site until moving to the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in 1992. The Canadian Broadcasting Centre, located in Toronto Ontario, is the broadcast headquarters and Master control point for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

CBL established a large low-power relay transmitter (LPRT) network in Northern and Central Ontario during the 1950s and 60s. These transmitters, all on AM frequencies, mainly rebroadcast the CBL signal but also offered some separate regional programming directed towards the regions served by the LPRT network in place of some local Toronto programming. One example of this was the daily Northern Ontario Report, which aired in the late afternoon. Most of these LPRT network transmitters now rebroadcast CBCS in Sudbury or CBQT in Thunder Bay. CBCS-FM is a Canadian radio station It is the CBC Radio One station in Sudbury, Ontario, broadcasting at 99 CBQT-FM is a Canadian radio station It is the CBC Radio One station in Thunder Bay Ontario, broadcasting at 88 Some of these transmitters have switched to FM as well, or have been shut down as FM transmitters covering areas served by multiple AM transmitters have signed on.

In 1998, CBL applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for conversion to FM, citing radio frequency interference that made the station nearly unlistenable in some parts of downtown Toronto. CRTC may also stand for Cathode Ray Tube Controller. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, in French Conseil In a controversial decision, the CBC was awarded the 99. 1 frequency over Milestone Radio, who had applied to open an urban music station, which would have been the first station operating under that format in Canada, to serve the city's large black community. Milestone Radio Incorporated is a Canadian radio broadcasting company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Urban contemporary is a music Radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s Black Canadians', Caribbean Canadians, and African Canadians are designations used for people of Black African descent who reside in Expanding the controversy, 99. 1 was believed at the time to be the last available FM frequency in the city.

On June 18, 1999, the station completed its move to FM, adopting the CBLA calls. Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) CBL remained in operation for an additional day, broadcasting a recorded loop listing alternative FM frequencies for any remaining listeners. The final announcement ran thus:

This is CBC Radio One, broadcasting from the Hornby transmitter at 740 AM. In the Toronto area, we will now move to 99. 1 FM, with additional frequencies throughout southern Ontario. This transmitter has served the community well since 1937, and has been at 740 AM since 1941. This is the end of an era in Canadian broadcasting history. Now, signing off, from CBL, adieu.

—Philip Savage, CBC Communications department^[1]

The CBC subsequently surrendered two relay transmitters outside the city which overlapped with the CBLA signal. In 2000, the CRTC awarded one of the new frequencies to Milestone, who launched CFXJ in 2001, and the other to Aboriginal Voices, who launched CFIE in 2002. CFXJ-FM is a Canadian radio station in Toronto, Ontario, which uses the on-air brand The New FLOW 93 Aboriginal Voices Radio (AVR Network is a Canadian national radio network with licensed radio stations in nine Canadian metropolitan areas Aboriginal Voices Radio (AVR Network is a Canadian national radio network with licensed radio stations in nine Canadian metropolitan areas The Hornby transmitter was leased to the new occupant of 740, CHWO, in 2001.

The Jarvis Street transmitter site was demolished in 2002 to make way for the RadioCity condominium development. A condominium, or condo, is a form of Housing tenure and other Real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate (usually of an apartment

Local programming

The station's local programs are Metro Morning, hosted since 1994 by Andy Barrie. Stations in Canada 's CBC Radio One network each produce some local programming in addition to the network schedule Metro Morning is CBC Radio One 's local morning program in Toronto, airing on CBLA-FM. Andy Barrie (born January 30 1945) is the host of CBC's morning drive-time show Metro Morning, in Toronto, Ontario. The show has been Toronto's most popular radio show in the ratings since 2004. ^[2] Here and Now, hosted by Matt Galloway, airs in the mid-to-late afternoon slot. Here and Now is a daily afternoon show originating from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which airs on CBLA. Matt Galloway is a Canadian radio personality who has been host of Here and Now, CBC Radio One 's local afternoon program on On weekend mornings the station produces Fresh Air, hosted by Jeff Goodes, heard throughout Ontario except in the Ottawa region. Saturday afternoons the station broadcasts an arts and culture magazine, Big City, Small World, hosted by Garvia Bailey.

The station also produces a second morning program, Ontario Morning, which airs on most of the network's transmitters in Southern Ontario outside of the Toronto, Ottawa and Windsor metropolitan areas. Ontario Morning is a Canadian radio program which airs on all CBC Radio One transmitters in Southern Ontario except for the originating stations Southern Ontario is the portion of the Canadian province of Ontario lying south of the French River and Algonquin Park. The Greater Toronto Area (locally abbreviated as the GTA) is the most populous Metropolitan area in Canada. The National Capital Region is an official federal designation for the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, the neighboring city of Gatineau, Quebec Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and lies at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. Ontario Morning is currently hosted by Wei Chen. Wei Chen is a Television and radio journalist from Canada. She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and its main rival

As of October 2005, Here and Now begins at 3 p. m. on CBLA's main station in Toronto, unlike most CBC Radio One stations whose local afternoon programs begin at 4 p. m. However, the station's rebroadcast transmitters outside of Toronto air regular CBC network programming for the first hour and join Here and Now in progress at 4.

Rebroadcasters

CBLA-FM has the following rebroadcasters: CBLA-FM's Ontario Feed:

Notes

CBCO-FM in Orillia, Ontario has a rebroadcaster at Penetanguishene, Ontario. Penetanguishene (pɛnəˈtæŋgwəʃiːn) sometimes shortened to Penetang is a Town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.

CBLV in Bancroft, Ontario is one of the last remaining AM rebroadcasters of CBLA-FM. Bancroft ( 2006 Population 3838 is a Town located on the York River in Hastings County There are possibilities that this repeater may switch to the FM band in the future.

References

1. ^ Fybush, Scott (1999-06-19). Scott Fybush (born 1972 is an American Radio industry observer writer and consultant Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Events 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. CBL, Adieu (MP3 audio news story). Retrieved on 2008-05-18. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
2. ^ Renhart, Anthony, "Andy Barrie battles Parkinson's; Popular CBC radio host comes out ‘as a guy with a disability'", Globe and Mail, June 29, 2007

External links

• CBC Toronto
• Central Ontario Frequency Listings Radio One and Two
• CBLA Toronto Radio History at Canadian Communications Foundation