CBR is a Canadian

Canada

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 radio station, broadcasting at 1010 AM in Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

. It broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial free and offers both local and national programming...

 network.

History

The station was launched in 1964. Calgary previously received CBC service from CBX

CBX (AM)

CBX is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 740 AM in Edmonton, Alberta. It broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network.-History:...

's transmitter in Lacombe

Lacombe, Alberta

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 and from private affiliate CFAC

CFAC (AM)

CFAC is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at AM 960 in Calgary, Alberta. The station, owned by Rogers Radio, broadcasts sports programming with the brand name Sportsnet 960, The Fan.-History:...

 960. The call sign CBR was previously used by CBC Radio Vancouver

CBU (AM)

CBU is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network in Vancouver, British Columbia. The station broadcasts from Steveston on 690 AM and from Mount Seymour on 88.1 FM....

 from 1937 to 1951.

On March 16, 2006, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved an application by the station to implement a new FM

FM broadcasting

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 transmitter in Calgary itself to simulcast

Simulcast

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 the AM programming. This new FM signal, CBR-1-FM (99.1 MHz) was launched on November 28, 2006.

Various other AM and FM rebroadcasters have been installed throughout southern Alberta.

On December 19, 2008, the licensee proposes to use a Subsidiary Communications Multiplex Operations (SCMO) channel to broadcast multi-cultural programs.

On July 7, 2011, the CRTC approved an application by the CBC to change the technical parameters of the english-language commercial AM radio programming undertaking CBR Calgary by relocating its transmitter. All other technical parameters will remain unchanged.

Local programming

CBR's local programs

CBC Radio One local programming

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 are Calgary Eyeopener in the morning, and The Homestretch in the afternoons.

Transmitters

External links

• CBC Calgary
• CBR-AM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
  Canadian Communications Foundation
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