CBCS-FM
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| City | Sudbury, Ontario |
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| Broadcast area | Northeastern Ontario |
| Branding | CBC Radio One |
| Frequency | 99.9 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | May 5, 1978 |
| Format | public broadcasting |
| Language(s) | English |
| ERP | 50 kW |
| HAAT | 120.9 metres (396 ft 8 in) |
| Class | B |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°30′14″N 80°58′03″W / 46.5039°N 80.9675°WCoordinates: 46°30′14″N 80°58′03″W / 46.5039°N 80.9675°W |
| Callsign meaning | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Sudbury |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Sister stations | CBBS-FM, CBBX-FM, CBON-FM |
| Website | www.cbc.ca/sudbury - CBC Sudbury |
CBCS-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the CBC Radio One station in Sudbury, Ontario, broadcasting at 99.9 FM, and serves all of Northeastern Ontario through its network of relay transmitters.
The station was launched in 1978 on FM 99.9 MHz. Prior to its launch, CBC Radio programming aired on private affiliates CKSO and CKSO-FM.
The CRTC decision authorizing the launch of CBCS in fact encouraged, but did not direct, the CBC to retain an AM frequency for CBC Radio, and to reserve CBCS for its CBC Stereo network. However, the station launched in 1978 as an affiliate of the talk network after the CBC was unable to negotiate an agreement with Cambrian Broadcasting to directly acquire CKSO.
The CBC later applied for a second license for its Stereo network, which was granted in 1984. However, that station remain unlaunched throughout the 1980s, and the CBC was forced in 1991 to surrender all of its non-operating licenses. Consequently, CBC Radio 2 service was not available in the city until the launch of CBBS-FM in 2001.
In the CBC's service reductions announced in March 2009, CBCS was slated to lose half of its existing staff. Several hundred people attended a rally at the city's Tom Davies Square on April 5 to protest the cutbacks, with participants including federal MPs Glenn Thibeault, Claude Gravelle and Charlie Angus, and musicians Kevin Closs and Stéphane Paquette.
In September 2014, the station announced that it would move in late 2015 from 15 Mackenzie Street, where it had been located since its launch in 1978, to a new leased studio and office space on Elm Street. The move was completed in December 2015. The former studio on Mackenzie Street was then rented out to Siena Films as the police station in the 2017 drama series Cardinal.
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