CFQR-FM
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| Broadcast area | Greater Montreal Area |
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| Branding | 92.5 The Q |
| Slogan | "The Q's just right for you!" |
| Frequency | 92.5 FM |
| First air date | 1947 (CFCF), 1963 (CFQR) |
| Format | adult contemporary |
| ERP | 41,400 watts |
| Class | C1 |
| Callsign meaning | Q Radio |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment |
| Website | The Q 92.5 |
CFQR-FM is an English language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec.
Owned and operated by Corus Entertainment, it broadcasts on 92.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 41,400 watts (class C1) using an omnidirectional antenna.
The station has had an adult contemporary music format since 1989.
CFQR-FM is the only English-language adult contemporary station in Montreal (the French-language equivalents for Montreal adult contemporary radio are CFGL-FM (Rythme FM) or CITE-FM (RockDétente). Its main competitor is Astral Media hot AC CJFM-FM (Virgin Radio). In addition, the rimshot station WEZF (Star 92.9) in Burlington, Vermont can be received in much of Montreal. However, the largest market in Canada with only one adult contemporary station is Vancouver, with CHQM-FM 103.5, although Vancouver is Canada's third-largest market, as opposed to Montreal being the second-largest market in Canada.
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[edit] History
CFQR was put on the air in 1947 as CFCF-FM (and operated on a frequency of 106.5) - a sister to CFCF 600 - simulcasting the programming of 600. With the new callsign of CFQR and on 92.5 MHz, CFQR was one of four new FM stations which came on the air in 1962 using common transmitting facilities on the new Mount Royal tower. The other stations were CKMF (originally CJMS-FM) on 94.3, CJFM (originally CJAD-FM) on 95.9 and CHOM (originally CKGM-FM in 1963) on 97.7. The station adopted an easy-listening (or beautiful music) format. It kept this format for 23 years simply as CFQR 92.5. In 1989, when CKGM dropped its adult contemporary format, CFQR began adding vocal artists, and shifted to its current adult contemporary format.
[edit] Q92 (1991-2009)
The 92.5/600 pair underwent an ownership change in 1991 and CFQR switched to its current branding.
Gordon Courtenay died suddenly Saturday October 29th, 2006, only an hour before he was supposed to host his Saturday night show live from D'Aversa restaurant, a show that had been running on Q92 for almost 30 years, starting at the Airport Hilton in 1981.
On July 14 and 15, Q92 launched its Summer Concert Series, drawing more than 300,000 for several outdoor concerts at the corner of Ste-Catherine and Peel.[1]
August 27th, 2007 saw the launch of the new "Live Drive Show" with hosts Ken Connors, Sonia Benezra and Judy Croon.
By 2007, the Aaron & Tasso morning show changed formats to hot AC, although the format remains AC the rest of the day. However, the experiment didn't work, and their morning show was reverted to fulltime adult contemporary when the station rebranded to The Q. Also, the playlist began to tweak, with most of the soft rock being dropped (Faith Hill was dropped from the playlist in favour of Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift titles). However, Q92's playlist is now considered as younger-skewing adult contemporary playlist, with most of the popular music from the adult contemporary chart. Q92's first tweak happened by 2003, when they were known as The New Q92, with a more softer-leaning AC format. Another tweak occurred in 2005, when the station re-added hot AC titles to the playlist, and dropping all 1960s titles from the playlist. Also, the noon hour on weekdays dropped most of the classic hits by September, because of sister CINW changing to classic hits in July 2008. In place, Terry DiMonte does a noon show on the station, although originating from co-owned classic rocker Q107 in Calgary. Terry DiMonte, although now also a morning jock on Calgary's Q107, was a former jock on Montreal's Standard Radio stations (even during Standard's sale of their terrestrial broadcasting assets to Astral in October 2007), and his career before Q107 in Calgary was at Astral Media classic rocker CHOM 97.7 until February 2008).
Morning man Aaron Rand played a featured role in YTV's "Prank Patrol" (a nationally-viewed kids show on cable) debuting that show's 3rd season.[2]
The annual one-day Corus Montreal Radiothon for Sainte-Justine's Hospital for Children, hosted by CFQR and its sister stations, raised more than $560,000 on November 16, 2007.
[edit] 92-5 The Q (2009-Present)
On April 14, 2009, the station, widely known as "Q92", changed its identity to "92.5 The Q" and unveiled a new logo and website. This became the third station in Montreal for the late 2000s to change its branding -- the other stations are the French-language jazz station CKLX-FM 91.9 (which rebranded from Couleur Jazz to Planete Jazz in October 2008) and competing hot AC station CJFM-FM (which changed brandings from Mix 96 to Virgin Radio on January 12, 2009.). Based on the new branding for English-language Montreal stations on the FM dial, the station still uses its a letter for its branding, whereas CJFM (Virgin) uses a name, and classic rock station CHOM uses its calls.
In addition, the station began phasing back softer adult contemporary songs (as a result, Faith Hill and LeAnn Rimes were returned to the playlist); however the station re-added 1960s songs such as Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morisson. Although Virgin's playlist remained unchanged from Mix 96 after they rebranded, CFQR-FM changed its playlist after rebranding, because the station had several tweaks in the playlist over the years.
[edit] Management
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On May 10, 2007, Corus announced that Chris Kennedy had been appointed as program director, effective May 15, 2007.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Dewolf, Christopher (July 20, 2007). "Great Publics Spaces". Project for Public Spaces (PPS). http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=844&type_id=14. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
- ^ Entertainment, Corus (August 27, 2007). "press release". Corus/YTV). http://www.corusent.com/corporate/press_room/pressReleaseDetail.asp?id=1361. Retrieved on 2007-08-27.
- ^ Press release distributed by CNW Telbec, May 10, 2007 – A man who's up on the latest music and radio trends – New Q92 FM program director, Chris Kennedy
[edit] External links
- 92.5 The Q (Official Website)
- Listen Live (Flash Player)
- CFQR-FM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CFQR-FM
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