CBCV-FM

CBCV-FM

City of license	Victoria, British Columbia
Broadcast area	Vancouver Island
Branding	CBC Radio One
Frequency	90.5 MHz (FM)
First air date	1998
Format	public broadcasting
ERP	3,000 watts average 6,300 watts peak horizontal polarization only
HAAT	494 meters (1,621 ft)
Class	C1
Transmitter coordinates
Callsign meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Victoria
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Website	CBC Radio One

CBCV-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network in Victoria, British Columbia and throughout Vancouver Island and the Southern Gulf Islands. It also reaches out to parts of Washington (State) north of Everett, Washington, but is harder to listen to because of KSER in Snohomish County on 90.7 on the FM dial. The CBCV airs at 90.5 on the FM dial.

It was the most listened to radio station in the Victoria Market in the Spring 2013 BBM Ratings.

History

The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission in 1997, and was launched in 1998. At the same time, the station was licensed to add a rebroadcaster at Metchosin, and took over 13 existing rebroadcasters of Vancouver's CBU.

Prior to the station's launch, Victoria was the only provincial capital in Canada without its own CBC Radio production centre.

As of January 25, 2013, the station shares its studio facilities with CHEK-DT.

Local programming

The station's local programs are On the Island, hosted by Gregor Craigie, in the mornings and All Points West, hosted by Robyn Burns, in the afternoons. Both programs broadcast exclusively on CBCV-FM and its rebroadcasters on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast.

Transmitters

Rebroadcasters of CBCV-FM

City of license	Identifier	Frequency	Power	Class	RECNet	Notes
Alert Bay	CBRY-FM	105.1 FM	77 watts	A1	Query
Campbell River	CBYT-FM	104.5 FM	88 watts	A1	Query
Coal Harbour	CBKO	540 AM	40 watts	LP	Query
Gold River	CBKJ	860 AM	40 watts	LP	Query
Metchosin-Sooke	CBCV-FM-1	99.5 FM	64 watts	A	Query
Port Alberni	CBTQ-FM	98.1 FM	348 watts	A	Query
Port Alice	CBUX	1170 AM	40 watts	LP	Query
Port Hardy	CBUY-FM	95.5 FM	182 watts	A1	Query
Powell River	CBUW-FM	92.5 FM	3,720 watts	B	Query	Also serves the Oceanside and Comox Valley areas.
Sayward	CBKU	630 AM	40 watts	LP	Query
Tahsis	CBTT-FM	90.5 FM	46 watts	LP	Query	Moved from 1240 AM.
Tofino	CBXZ-FM	91.5 FM	510 watts	A	Query
Ucluelet	CBXQ	540 AM (moving to 92.7 FM)	40 watts	LP	Query
Woss Camp	CBTW-FM	92.7 FM	300 watts	B	Query

The only major city on Vancouver Island without its own CBC Radio transmitter is Nanaimo, which receives Vancouver's CBU signal directly, and consequently hears Vancouver's local programming. The CBC applied to the CRTC to add a rebroadcaster of CBCV at Nanaimo in 2007, contemporaneous with an application to convert the Vancouver station to FM. As few FM frequencies remain available in the Vancouver-Victoria market, however, the applications were denied. CBU was permitted to add a nested low-power rebroadcaster in the urban core of Vancouver, but was required to maintain the AM signal to serve outlying areas, including Nanaimo.

On October 20, 2015 the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate a low-power FM rebroadcasting transmitter in Ucluelet, which will operate at 92.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 50 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 27 metres). The new transmitter will replace the current AM transmitter, CBXQ 540 kHz.

External links

• CBC Radio One
• CBCV history - Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBCV-FM