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{{short description|CBC Music flagship radio station in Toronto}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name               = CBL-FM
| logo               = Cbc music toronto 2019.svg
| logo_size          = 225px
| airdate            = {{Start date and age|1946|10|7|p=fy}}
| frequency          = 94.1 [[Hertz|MHz]] ([[FM broadcasting|FM]])
| repeater           = 99.1 [[CBLA-FM|CBLA-HD2]] (Toronto)
| area               = Central [[Ontario]]
| city               = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]
| format             = [[Adult contemporary]]/[[Classical music]]/[[Jazz]]/[[Public broadcasting]]
| erp                = 38,000 [[watt]]s
| haat               = {{convert|420.5|meters}}
| class              = C1
| owner              = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]
| branding           = [[CBC Music]]
| callsign_meaning   = '''C'''anadian '''B'''roadcasting Corporation Great '''L'''akes<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/call_letters.htm Meaning of call letters]</ref>
| former_callsigns   = '''VE9EV''' (1946–1947)<br>'''CBC-FM''' (1947–1968)<br><ref name="bh">{{cite web |title=CBL-FM |url=https://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cbl-fm |website=www.broadcasting-history.ca}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=4 stations, 1 network licensed in Canada |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1959/1959-11-02-BC.pdf |work=Broadcasting |date=November 2, 1959 |page=105}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=International Shorts |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1956/1956-07-23-BC.pdf |work=Broadcasting |date=July 23, 1956}}</ref>
| former_frequencies = 99.1 MHz (1946–1966)<ref name="bh" />
| webcast            = [http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:36813.asx?bkup=36814 Listen live]
| website            = [http://www.cbc.ca/toronto CBC Toronto]
| sister_stations    = [[CJBC (AM)|CJBC]], [[CBLA-FM]], [[CJBC-FM]]
}}
'''CBL-FM''' (94.1 [[Hertz|MHz]]) is the [[flagship (broadcasting)|flagship station]] of the [[CBC Music]] network. It is a [[public broadcasting|non-commercial]] station, [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], and is owned by the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]].

CBL-FM's studios and offices are located at the [[Canadian Broadcasting Centre]], on [[Front Street (Toronto)|Front Street West]], while its [[transmitter]] is located atop the [[CN Tower]].

==History==
{{stack|[[File:Toronto cbc music.svg|thumb|Former logo adopted in February 2017 after the rebrand to CBC Music.]]}}
CBL-FM was launched on October 7, 1946, with the callsign '''VE9EV''', as an FM [[simulcast]] for 740 [[CBLA-FM|CBL]]. It was the corporation's second FM station behind VE9CB in [[Montreal, Quebec|Montreal]] (now [[CBFX-FM]]). In 1947, its callsign was changed to '''CBC-FM'''. The station originally broadcast at 99.1&nbsp;MHz, but moved to 94.1 in 1966. (The 99.1 frequency was vacant until 1977, when it was assigned to the [[CKO]] [[all-news radio]] network. CKO ceased operations in 1989, and the frequency was again vacant until it was assigned to [[CBLA-FM]], co-owned with CBL-FM.)

As part of an 18-month trial for a nationwide FM network, CBC-FM began airing separate programming in 1960, playing mostly [[classical music]] along with the corporation's other English-language FM stations ([[CBM-FM]] Montreal and [[CBOQ-FM|CBO-FM]] [[Ottawa, Ontario|Ottawa]]). CBC-FM returned to simulcasting CBL in 1962, but resumed separate programming again in 1964. The station was renamed '''CBL-FM''' in 1968. The FM network was rebranded ''CBC Stereo'' on November 3, 1975, ''CBC Radio Two'' in 1997 and ''CBC Music'' in 2018, as it shifted away from mostly classical music, to a mix of [[adult album alternative]], classical, [[jazz]] and other genres.

==Rebroadcasters==
{{RadioRebroadcasters
| rec              = true
| crtc             = true
| callsign         = CBL-FM
| city1            = [[Huntsville, Ontario|Huntsville]]
| call1            = CBL-FM-1
| freq1            = 106.9 FM
| watts1           = 
| class1           =
| crtc1            = [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2005/db2005-264.htm 2005-264]
| city2            = [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]]
| call2            = CBBK-FM
| freq2            = 92.9 FM
| watts2           = 
| class2           = 
| crtc2            = 
| city3            = [[London, Ontario|London]]
| call3            = CBBL-FM
| freq3            = 100.5 FM
| watts3           = 
| class3           = 
| crtc3            = 
| city4            = [[Orillia]]
| call4            = CBL-FM-3
| freq4            = 90.7 FM
| watts4           = 
| class4           =
| crtc4            = [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2002/db2002-456.htm 2002-456]
| city5            = [[Owen Sound]]
| call5            = CBL-FM-4
| freq5            = 97.1 FM
| watts5           = 
| class5           = 
| crtc5            = 
| city6            = [[Paris, Ontario|Paris]]
| call6            = CBL-FM-2
| freq6            = 90.7 FM
| watts6           = 
| class6           = 
| crtc6            = [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1999/DB99-1.HTM 99-1]
| city7            = [[Peterborough, Ontario|Peterborough]]
| call7            = CBBP-FM
| freq7            = 103.9 FM
| watts7           = 
| class7           = 
| crtc7            =
}}

On February 15, 1979, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate a new FM transmitter in [[Belleville, Ontario|Belleville]] on 94.3&nbsp;MHz ('''CBBB-FM''')<ref>CRTC 79-169</ref> and on May 7, 1979, the CRTC also approved the CBC's application to operate a new FM transmitter in [[Brockville]] on 104.9&nbsp;MHz ('''CBBA-FM'''), to rebroadcast the programming originating from CBL-FM Toronto.<ref>CRTC 79-325</ref> Neither of these transmitters in Belleville and Brockville were implemented<ref>[https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1990/DB90-147.HTM CRTC 90-147]</ref> and the frequencies were awarded to other broadcasters.<ref>[https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1992/DB92-763.HTM Decision CRTC 92-763]</ref><ref>[https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2003/db2003-15.htm Decision CRTC 2003-15]</ref>

In 1979, '''CBBK-FM''' began broadcasting at 92.9 MHz in Kingston. <ref>[https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Annuals/Archive-BC-YB-IDX/80s-OCR-YB/1981-YB/1981-BC-YB-OCR-Page-0555.pdf World Radio History - 1981]</ref>

In 1983, a rebroadcaster was added at Peterborough operating at 103.9 MHz as '''CBBP-FM'''. <ref>CBL-FM www.broadcasting-history.ca</ref>

On June 28, 2005, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to change the frequency of its transmitter CBL-FM-1 104.7 to 106.9 MHz. This change of frequency was to eliminate significant interference with a local radio station [[CFBK-FM]] operating at 105.5 MHz in Huntsville.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.cbc.ca/toronto CBC Toronto]
* [https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-city-of-toronto/CBL-FM CBL-FM] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*{{RecnetCanada|CBL-FM}}
*{{RecnetCanada|CBBK-FM}}
*{{RecnetCanada|CBBL-FM}}
*{{RecnetCanada|CBBP-FM}}

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