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Radio I and CBC Music are across the country on their respective networks. But wherever one is listening they only identify as CBC Toronto, CBC Montreal, CBC South-west Ontario, CBC Cabbageville etc
Does each transmitter have its own unique call letters?
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Does each transmitter have its own unique call letters?
Yes.
Some have their own complete call-letters, like CBL-FM Toronto or CBO-FM Ottawa, while repeaters without any of their own programming will have call-letters like CBO-5-FM.
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Some have their own complete call-letters, like CBL-FM Toronto or CBO-FM Ottawa, while repeaters without any of their own programming will have call-letters like CBO-5-FM.
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Call letters are all over the place with CBC Radio; sometimes they contain numbers and sometimes not.
The Radio One transmitter serving Kitchener-Waterloo is CBLA-FM-2, which is the same as Toronto but with the -2 added. However London is CBCL-FM. Both transmitters originate their own programming. London’s CBC Music transmitter is CBBL-FM.
Where I live, we have CBU as the AM transmitter and CBU-2-FM as the FM transmitter for CBC Radio One. CBU-FM is the CBC Music station.
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Is there any requirement for a station to ID by call letters ever?
I notice most commercial FM stations don't use their call letters and rarely even announce their true frequency. They round off the number and combine it with some silly brand name like Cactus 96, or Vagina 104.
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Call letters are all over the place with CBC Radio; sometimes they contain numbers and sometimes not.
The Radio One transmitter serving Kitchener-Waterloo is CBLA-FM-2, which is the same as Toronto but with the -2 added. However London is CBCL-FM. Both transmitters originate their own programming. London’s CBC Music transmitter is CBBL-FM.
Where I live, we have CBU as the AM transmitter and CBU-2-FM as the FM transmitter for CBC Radio One. CBU-FM is the CBC Music station.
CBU-2-FM is an example of an FM signal rebroadcasting an AM station's programming; there's one of these on CJBC-5-FM (106.3), the Peterborough-licensed Ici Radio-Canada Première transmitter that rebroadcasts Toronto's CJBC(AM) from a tall tower on the south shore of Rice Lake.
Some more weirdness involving CBC transmitter callsigns is in my neck of the woods; Pembroke's CBCD-FM 92.5 carries the programming of Ottawa's Radio One station, CBO-FM 91.5, while the low-power transmitter in Deep River, the former CBLI(AM) 1110, is CBCD-FM-1 97.9.
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Is there any requirement for a station to ID by call letters ever?
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Yes, but it's not monitored or enforced.
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Call letters are all over the place with CBC Radio; sometimes they contain numbers and sometimes not.
The Radio One transmitter serving Kitchener-Waterloo is CBLA-FM-2, which is the same as Toronto but with the -2 added. However London is CBCL-FM. Both transmitters originate their own programming. London’s CBC Music transmitter is CBBL-FM.
Where I live, we have CBU as the AM transmitter and CBU-2-FM as the FM transmitter for CBC Radio One. CBU-FM is the CBC Music station.CBU-2-FM is an example of an FM signal rebroadcasting an AM station's programming; there's one of these on CJBC-5-FM (106.3), the Peterborough-licensed Ici Radio-Canada Première transmitter that rebroadcasts Toronto's CJBC(AM) from a tall tower on the south shore of Rice Lake.
Some more weirdness involving CBC transmitter callsigns is in my neck of the woods; Pembroke's CBCD-FM 92.5 carries the programming of Ottawa's Radio One station, CBO-FM 91.5, while the low-power transmitter in Deep River, the former CBLI(AM) 1110, is CBCD-FM-1 97.9.
In the case of CBU-2, it’s a transmitter covering mostly the same area as the AM one. CBC has a few of these in Western Canada, though in some cases they’re “nested” transmitters that cover a much smaller area than the AM - Calgary, for instance.
The French network has long employed FM rebroadcasters for CJBC Toronto - London also has one on the same tower as CBCL (Radio One).
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Is there any requirement for a station to ID by call letters ever?
.Yes, but it's not monitored or enforced.
CBC Radio is exempt from using call letters in ID's.
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CBC Radio is exempt from using call letters in ID's.
Thanks. That's good to know.
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