CFCB - Repeat Transmitters

Repeat Transmitters

CFCB also operates repeat transmitters in the following locations:

• CFNW 790 AM Port aux Choix (opened January 29, 1972)
• CFSX 870 AM Stephenville (opened November 13, 1964) 1 2
• CFGN 1230 AM Port aux Basques (opened August 6, 1971) 1 2
• CFCV 97.7 FM Codroy Valley (opened June 6, 1974) 1
• CFDL 97.9 FM Deer Lake (opened December 6, 1974)
• CFNN 97.9 FM St. Anthony (opened June 27, 1974)

For some time now, the repeater CFNW-AM in Gros Morne National Park has been off-the-air leaving the Northern Peninsula without radio service from CFCB. The cause of this transmitter failure is due to an ice and wind storm in late 2011 which damaged the tower. When the transmitter site was constructed in 1971, the area was not a national park. Now that the station has to construct a new facility for their equipment, there are some issues with disturbing the environment in the park, all that have yet to be resolved. As of 2012 the signal in this area is still off-the-air. On October 3, 2012, Newcap Broadcasting applied to convert CFNW Port aux Choix from the AM band to the FM band. If approved, CFNW's new transmitter will operate at 96.7 MHz.

1 In the daytime, CFSX operates independent of CFCB aside from the phone-in shows and the weekday 1:00 PM and 5:30 PM news. CFGN and CFCV serve as repeaters of CFSX. At night, CFSX and its repeaters serve as repeaters to CFCB.

2 Originally a full-time repeater of CFCB.

On April 2, 2001, the sale of Humber Valley Broadcasting Co. Ltd. to Newcap Inc. was approved. This included a number of radio stations such as:

• CFCB Corner Brook and its transmitters;
  • CFDL-FM Deer Lake
  • CFNW Port-aux-Choix
  • CFNN-FM St. Anthony
  • CFSX Stephenville
• CFGN Channel-Port-aux-Basques and its transmitter;
• CFCV-FM St. Andrew's and CFLN Goose Bay and its transmitters;
  • CFLW Wabush and CFLC-FM Churchill Falls