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CBQT-FM
City of license	Thunder Bay, Ontario
Broadcast area	Northwestern Ontario
Branding	CBC Radio One
Frequency	88.3 MHz (FM)
First air date	1973
Format	public broadcasting
ERP	23,730 watts
Class	B
Callsign meaning	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Quetico Thunder Bay
Former callsigns	CBQ (1973-1990)
Owner	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Website	CBC Thunder Bay

CBQT-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the CBC Radio One station in Thunder Bay, Ontario, broadcasting at 88.3 FM, and serves all of Northwestern Ontario through a network of relay transmitters.

History

The station was launched in 1973 on the AM band as CBQ 800. The 800 frequency had been vacated earlier that year by the defunct CJLX.^[1] CBQ Radio's inaugural morning broadcast in December 1973 made it the second city in Ontario to get a regional broadcast centre. The call sign CBQ was a last minute choice by station managers since CBL and CBT were already taken. (CBL for Lakehead or CBT for Thunder Bay). Instead the letter Q was chosen for Quetico Provincial Park near Atikokan, which is west of Thunder Bay.

Prior to CBQ's launch, CBC Radio programming aired on private affiliate CFPA 1230.

CBQ moved to the FM band as CBQT-FM in 1990.^[2] The CBQ-FM call sign was already in use by the CBC Stereo sister station on 101.7 FM. Some of the relay transmitters for CBQT previously rebroadcast CBL in Toronto.

CBC Radio One's Thunder Bay studio

Local programming

The station's local programs are The Great Northwest, hosted by Lisa Laco in the morning (5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.) and Voyage North, hosted by Gerald Graham in the afternoon (4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.).

The CBC Radio studio in Thunder Bay also produces the hourly weekend weather reports for all of Ontario after the hourly news break.

Repeaters

References

External links

• CBC Thunder Bay
• CBQT History at Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CBQT-FM