CFGL-FM
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| City of license | Laval, Quebec |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Montreal Area |
| Branding | 105.7 Rythme FM |
| Slogan | Le Rythme de Montréal |
| Frequency | 105.7 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | 1968 |
| Format | Adult Contemporary |
| ERP | 41,000 watts |
| Class | C1 |
| Callsign meaning | C F Grand Laval |
| Owner | Cogeco (Cogeco Diffusion Inc.) |
| Sister stations | CHMP-FM, CKAC, CKOI-FM, CKBE-FM |
| Website | 105.7 Rythme FM |
CFGL-FM is a French language Canadian radio station located in Laval, Quebec, near Montreal. While the station's city of licence is Laval and its studios are actually in that city, it operates as a de facto Montreal station. It is the flagship of the "Rythme FM" branding network (which the station used since 1999), which operates across much of Quebec.
Owned and operated by Cogeco since 1986, it broadcasts on 105.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 41,000 watts (class C1) using an omnidirectional antenna.[1]
CFGL-FM began as a beautiful music[2] station back in 1968, switching to soft adult contemporary by 1992 (the same time English-language station CFQR-FM exited that format, although vocals were added by 1988) due to the decline of beautiful music stations at the time, and probably the first beautiful music radio station in Canada broadcasting in French. It took on its current mainstream AC format from a soft AC format as the station adopted its current branding. The station is known for being the top-rated French-language radio station in North America,[3] having beaten Adult Contemporary rival CITE-FM since 2004. CFGL-FM was described as a hot adult contemporary station until 2008, when CKOI-FM and sister station CKOY-FM in Sherbrooke adopted their current hot adult contemporary formats after moving from contemporary hit radio. But even though CFGL-FM was described hot AC by that time, it leaned very AC, although it was listed on Mediabase and Nielsen BDS as an AC station. The return of CFGL-FM and the entire Rythme FM network to adult contemporary was caused by the addition of 1960s and soft adult contemporary songs on the playlist, but retains its more hot AC-leaning sound over rival CITE-FM.
CFGL-FM was one of the largest AC stations in Canada to not do a Christmas music marathon for a majority of December. Similar station CHQM-FM Vancouver had not done so for 2009, although English-language AC sister station CFQR-FM (now CKBE-FM) in Montreal began doing so that year.
Since December 8, 2011, the rival Rouge FM stations began playing Christmas music, including CITE-FM after having not had an all-Christmas marathon in 2010, although the stations had them for the first time in 2004. On December 18-19, the Rythme FM network followed suit for a week. This forced Rythme FM sister CKBE-FM (9-2-5 The Beat) not doing an all-Christmas marathon after the station rebranded from CFQR-FM & 92-5 The Q in September; that station last had an all-Christmas marathon in 2010.
[edit] References
- ^ CFGL-FM 105.7 MHz Radio-Locator.com Retrieved 2010-04-28
- ^ English-stations-80-90
- ^ Hot Adult Contemporary DocStoc.com Retrieved 2010-04-28
[edit] External links
- 105.7 Rythme FM
- CFGL-FM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CFGL-FM
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