CHQM-FM
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| Broadcast area | Greater Vancouver |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 103.5MHz(FM) (HD Radio) |
| Branding | Move103.5 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Adult contemporary HD2:Pure Country (radio network) HD3: Silent (previouslyCFTE) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | |
| CFBT-FM,CIVT-DT | |
| History | |
First air date | August 10,1960 |
Call signmeaning | Canada'sHighestQualityMusic |
| Technical information | |
| Class | C |
| ERP | 53,000wattsaverage 100,000wattspeak Horizontal polarizationonly |
| HAAT | 617.6 metres (2,026 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 49°21′15″N122°57′30″W/ 49.354252°N 122.958308°W |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | iheartradio.ca/move/vancouver |
CHQM-FM(103.5FM) is a Canadianradio stationinVancouver,British Columbia.It broadcasts with aneffective radiated powerof 100,000wattsfrom atransmitteronMount Seymourand airs anadult contemporaryformat.It is owned byBell Media.CHQM's studio is located at750 Burrard StreetinDowntown Vancouver.
The station is carried onShaw Directchannel 509, and also carried on Telus Optik TV channel 7025.
History
[edit]CHQM-FM signed on the air on August 10,1960with a mainly instrumentaleasy listeningformat, several months after its originalAMsister station, CHQM (whose programming CHQM-FM mainly simulcast), first went on-air on December 7, 1959. The original owner of CHQM-AM and -FM was Vancouver Broadcast Associates Ltd., headed by Bill Bellman and Jack Stark, with the stations' studios and offices, then located on 1134Burrard Street.
On November 4, 1961, CHQM-FM began broadcasting in stereo, and was authorized by theBoard of Broadcast Governors(predecessor of theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) to increase its transmission power from 18,950 watts to 100,000 in 1963. The transmitter site was moved from Grouse Mountain to Mount Seymour at this time. CHQM-FM was the second private radio station in Canada to transmit in stereo (afterCFRB-FM/Toronto), and it was the first in the nation to transmit an SCMO subcarrier ( "Q Music" ). This subcarrier was used to transmit background music to stores and businesses throughout the Lower Mainland, and it helped support the FM station during the difficult first two decades when FM audiences were small. Parent company Vancouver Broadcast Associates changed its corporate name to Q Broadcasting Ltd. on August 23, 1969.
The two owners had a dispute, and each struggled to control Q Broadcasting through the mid-1970s. In 1979, Stark assumed complete control of the company. Bellman moved on to become a major shareholder in fledglingCKVU-DT,also in Vancouver.
CHUM Limitedacquired CHQM-AM and -FM on October 17, 1990, on condition from the CRTC that CHUM sell either CHQM-AM or its otherVancouverAM station,CFUN(regulations of the time allowed media companies to own only one AM and one FM station in a particular market inCanada); CHQM-AM was sold, while the FM made a gradual switch from its longtimebeautiful musicformat to its current format over a six-month period between March and September of1992,giving Vancouver twoadult contemporarystations (the other being CKKS, nowCJAX-FM).[2]
On July 12, 2006, CTVglobemedia announced it would acquire CHUM Limited, which includes CHQM-FM. The transaction was approved by the CRTC (on condition that CKVU, which had also been acquired by CHUM in 2001, be sold toRogers Communications) on June 8, 2007, and CHQM-FM became a CTVglobemedia station on June 22. CTVglobemedia becameBell Mediain 2011.
On December 27, 2020, as part of a mass format reorganization byBell Media,CHQM rebranded asMove103.5,ending 60 years of the "QM FM" branding. While the station would run jockless for the first week of the format, on-air staff would return on January 4, 2021.[3]
HD Radio
[edit]In 2016, CHQM signed onHD Radioservices, marking the firstBell Mediastation to do so. They also signed on HD2 and HD3 sub-channels, which airsimulcastsof sistersCKSTandCFTE,respectively.[4]
References
[edit]- ^CHQM-FM ad from 1963at the Vancouver Radio Museum
- ^The Canadian Press,"CHQM-AM sale set,"The Vancouver Sun,December 18, 1992.
- ^Bell Media Moves Ten Stations to New Branding
- ^"Bell Media Radio Delivers HD Radio for the First Time with Vancouver's 103.5 QM/FM and TSN 1040/1410".
External links
[edit]- Move 103.5
- CHQM-FMat The History of Canadian Broadcasting by theCanadian Communications Foundation
- CHQM-FMin the REC Canadian station database
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