CIDG-FM
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| City | Ottawa, Ontario |
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| Broadcast area | National Capital Region |
| Branding | Rebel 101-7 |
| Slogan | Real Rock Radio |
| Frequency | 101.7 FM MHz |
| First air date | June 7, 2010 |
| Format | Mainstream rock |
| Power | 1,793 Watts Average ERP 5,500 Watts Peak ERP |
| HAAT | 98 metres (322 ft) |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 9001 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°26′48.1″N 75°37′27.1″W / 45.446694°N 75.624194°W |
| Callsign meaning |
CI DawG former branding |
| Owner | Torres Media Ottawa, Inc. |
| Sister stations | CIUX-FM |
| Webcast | CIDG-FM Webstream |
| Website | CIDG-FM Online |
CIDG-FM is an FM radio station licensed to Ottawa, Ontario, serving the National Capital Region. CIDG-FM is owned and operated by Torres Media Ottawa, Inc. CIDG's studios are located on Hunt Club Road (near Macdonald-Cartier International Airport), while its transmitter is located on top of an apartment tower on Montreal Road East in Gloucester.
The station's license was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on August 26, 2008. The station began testing its signal on 101.9 FM on June 1, 2010 and launched the morning of June 7, 2010. The station originally broadcast a blues and blues-rock-oriented format branded as Dawg-FM; on August 26, 2016, after receiving approval to move to 101.7 FM and remove a mandate to broadcast specialty music, the station re-launched with a mainstream rock format.
CRTC Commissioner Michel Morin took the unusual step of issuing a dissenting opinion towards the approval of CIDG's license, in which he stated that Corus Entertainment's competing proposal for a new talk radio station served a greater need in the market. In his dissent, Morin called attention to the fact that very few other radio stations in North America offer a primarily blues-based format, suggesting that there may not be sufficient audience demand to support the station in the long term. On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of both CIDG and Astral Media's new classic hits station CJOT-FM. Moore asked the commission to assess whether the francophone population of the Ottawa-Gatineau area was sufficiently well-served by existing French radio services, and to consider licensing one or more of the French language applications — which included a Christian music station, a community radio station and a campus radio station for the Université du Québec en Outaouais — in addition to or instead of the approved stations.
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