CBLA-FM-2
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| City | Paris, Ontario |
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| Broadcast area | Waterloo Region |
| Branding | CBC Radio One |
| Frequency | 89.1 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | 1999 (as rebroadcaster of CBLA-FM) March 11, 2013 (start of local programming) April 26, 2013 (officially-licensed originating station) |
| Format | public broadcasting |
| Language(s) | English |
| ERP | 5.0 kW |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Great LAkes |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Sister stations |
Paris rebroadcasters: CBL-FM-2, CJBC-FM-2 Other Toronto stations serving the area: CJBC, CBLFT-DT, CBLT-DT |
| Website | CBC Kitchener-Waterloo |
CBLA-FM-2, operating as CBC Kitchener-Waterloo, is the CBC Radio One station licensed to Paris, Ontario, Canada but primarily serving the nearby Regional Municipality of Waterloo. It broadcasts on the FM band at 89.1 MHz.
Previously licensed as a rebroadcaster of CBLA-FM in Toronto, it began originating a limited amount of programming targeting Waterloo Region and surrounding cities in March 2013.
CBLA-FM-2's local morning program, The Morning Edition, hosted by Craig Norris, originates from studios on King Street West in Kitchener and airs weekdays from 6:00 to 8:30 a.m. A Saturday afternoon regional network program highlighting Ontario arts, music and culture, The Key of C, is produced at CBLA-FM-2 and heard on every CBC Radio One station across Ontario on Saturday afternoons (except CBLA-FM Toronto which airs Big City, Small World).
Prior to 1999, the Kitchener-Waterloo area received CBC Radio programming through Toronto's CBL (740 kHz on the AM band), whose city-grade signal easily covered most of southern Ontario. On July 29, 1997, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the CBC's plan to move CBL to FM; this plan included provisions for new or improved rebroadcasters to serve areas that the new Toronto FM transmitter would not reach, including one at 89.1 FM in Paris.
Originally, the Paris rebroadcaster simulcasted CBLA's main-transmitter schedule for most of the day, including during most regional programming blocks. It even carried the Toronto-based Metro Morning on weekdays, instead of the regional Ontario Morning program also produced in Toronto and carried on most of the Radio One rebroadcasters in southern Ontario. However, like most of these rebroadcasters, it carried (and continues to carry) network programming instead of the first hour of the afternoon-drive program Here and Now, and does not carry any other specially-scheduled Toronto-specific programming.
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