CFCB
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| Broadcast area | Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador |
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| Branding | 570 VOCM |
| Slogan | Local News Now |
| Frequency | 570 kHz C-QUAM AM Stereo |
| First air date | October 3, 1960 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 10000 watts (day) / 1000 watts (night) |
| Class | C |
| Callsign meaning | Coming From Corner Brook |
| Owner | Newcap Radio |
| Sister stations | CKXX-FM |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www.cfcbradio.com (dead link) |
CFCB is an AM radio station in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, broadcasting at 570 kHz operating at a power of 1000 watts. Owned by Newcap Radio, CFCB first went on the air on October 3, 1960. The year 2010 marked CFCB's 50th anniversary of broadcasting. The station was founded by Dr. Noel Murphy. On March 26, 2012 CFCB rebranded, which included a new slogan, logo, programming, and more. The "Local News Now" slogan was adopted from VOCM in St. John's who had rebranded just weeks before. The new CFCB logo also features the VOCM color scheme, which includes yellow, and red.
As of September 2016, CFCB is branded as '570 VOCM'.
Being owned by Newcap, CFCB carries VOCM's Open Line, Backtalk, and Night Line live phone-in shows, Saturday Evening (Lions Club & VOCM Cares Radio Bingo) Host Greg Smith, Producer Jordan Keating, and the Saturday Night Cabin Party, which is devoted to classic country music from the 1950s to the 1980s, as well as the 1:00 PM and 5:30 PM VOCM newscasts (though those newscasts are carried on weekdays only), but not the 7:45 AM newscast, or the 5:00 newscast, as CFCB has its own 8:00 AM and 5:00PM newscast. The station's regular music format is primarily country music. Prior to the early 2000s, CFCB was an adult contemporary station.
The longest-running radio show on the station (and in the province) is This One's for You, which is broadcast every Saturday from 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM. After airing on Sunday mornings from 9AM-12PM since its inception, on January 29, 2017, CFCB announced that the program would be moved to Saturday mornings. No reason was given for the change, although this new time slot corresponds with 590 VOCM St. John's Irish Newfoundland Show. It is believed this change was made so CFCB could carry the syndicated talk programming bring broadcast Sunday mornings on 590 VOCM.
Without notice, on April 25, 2015 at 12:00am, CFCB along with its other network station CFSX dropped its country music format in favour of soft AC and classic hits. This format change was also made on VOCM-AM in St. John's just weeks prior, a network of which CFCB is part of. Both stations previously aired a country music format, but switched to classic hits. Due to this format change on CFCB, there are now no longer any country music stations outside of the Avalon peninsula.
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