CFCW (AM)

CFCW

City of license	Camrose, Alberta
Slogan	Alberta's country legend!
Frequency	840 KHz (AM)
First air date	November 2, 1954
Format	Country music
Power	50 kW (day) 40 kW (night)
Class	B
Transmitter coordinates
Callsign meaning	Canada's Finest Country and Western
Owner	Newcap Radio
Sister stations	CFCW-FM, CIRK-FM, CKRA-FM
Website	www.cfcw.com

For CFCW's FM sister station, see CFCW-FM.

CFCW is a radio station in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, broadcasting at 840 AM. The station is owned by Newcap Broadcasting. CFCW also has studios in the NewCap Broadcast Centre in West Edmonton Mall. CFCW airs a "traditional country music" format with a mix of classic and contemporary country hits, with obligatory Canadian content pieces.

CFCW is currently ranked #6 and the 3rd most listened-to AM station in the market according to the Fall 2014 Numeris data report. Most of the stations listeners live in rural areas outside Edmonton.

History

Former logo

• CFCW started on November 2, 1954 on 1230 kHz, with 250 watts power.
• In 1958, the station increased transmitter power up to 1,000 watts.
• In 1961, the station changed frequencies to 790 kHz, with 10,000 watts power.
• In 1976, the station increased transmitter power again to 50,000 watts, serving the Edmonton area as well.
• In 2005, CFCW-FM signed on.
• On August 1, 2015, CFCW moved from 790 AM to 840 AM.

On July 28, 2008, Newcap applied to amend the licence by changing its frequency from 790 kHz to 840 kHz. The application was approved; however, the move was essentially voided when the station then at 830 kHz in Wainwright, Alberta was denied permission to move to FM. The Wainwright station ultimately re-applied for—and got—permission to move to FM; as a result, in spring 2015, CFCW began advertising a pending move to the 840 frequency. On August 1, 2015, CFCW officially moved from 790 AM to 840 AM with nighttime power reduced to 40,000 kW to protect the cross-continent clear-channel service of WHAS, in Louisville, KY.

Former logo of CFCW at 790 kHz

External links

• CFCW
• CFCW history - Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CFCW
• Radio-Locator Information on CFCW

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