CBEF
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| City | Windsor, Ontario |
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| Branding | Ici Radio-Canada Première |
| Frequency | 1550 kHz (AM) |
| Format | Public broadcasting (French) |
| Power | 10,000 watts |
| Class | A |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°12′56″N 82°55′15″W / 42.2156°N 82.9208°W |
| Callsign meaning | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Essex County French |
| Former frequencies | 540 kHz (1970-2013) |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Sister stations | CBEW-FM, CBE-FM, CBET-DT |
| Website | Radio-Canada |
CBEF is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 1550 AM in Windsor, Ontario. It airs the programming of Radio-Canada's Première network. CBEF is a Class A station broadcasting on the clear-channel frequency of 1550 kHz; in fact, the only full power station on this frequency in Canada.
CBEF was launched in 1970. It originally broadcast at 540 AM, until taking over English sister station CBE's frequency in 2013 after that station converted to the FM band.
The station's regional morning program is Matins sans frontières, weekdays from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., and the station airs the pan-regional afternoon program L'heure de pointe Toronto, weekdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., from CJBC in Toronto. The station also airs the provincewide program ICI #ONRC weekdays from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. On Saturday mornings, the station airs the provincewide morning program Grands Lacs Café. Hosted and produced in Sudbury, with additional contributions from staff in Toronto. The provincewide programs airs on CBON and CJBC, as well as CBEF in Windsor. On all public holidays, the morning show Matins sans frontières airs as usual and afternoon shows L'heure de pointe Toronto from CJBC in or Ça parle au Nord from CBON-FM in Sudbury are heard provincewide (except Ottawa) from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. as of ICI #ONRC is preempted.
In the CBC's programming cuts announced on March 26, 2009, almost all of the station's local programming was slated for cancellation, meaning that the station had become effectively a rebroadcaster of Toronto's CJBC except for a skeleton staff of two anchors to present local news updates during the day and report on breaking news. A local lobby group, SOS-CBEF, organized to oppose the cutbacks, but their request for an injunction against the change was denied in July due to the presiding judge ruling that she did not have the appropriate legal jurisdiction to issue an injunction.
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