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{{short description|Radio station in Saguenay, Quebec}}
{{Infobox radio station
| logo             = File:CFIX Rouge96,9fm logo.png
| logo_size        = 250px
| name             = CFIX-FM
| airdate          = July 31, [[1987 in radio|1987]]
| frequency        = 96.9 [[Hertz|MHz]] ([[FM broadcasting|FM]])
| city             = [[Saguenay, Quebec|Saguenay]], [[Quebec]]
| area             = [[Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean]]
| format           = [[Adult contemporary]] ([[French language|French]])
| owner            = [[Bell Media]]
| erp              = 47,600 [[watt]]s average<br>100,000 watts peak
| haat             = {{convert|539.5|metres}}
| branding         = 96,9 [[Rouge FM|Rouge]]
| class            = C
| sister_stations  = [[CJAB-FM]], [[CFRS-DT]]
| webcast          = [https://www.iheartradio.ca/rouge-fm/rouge-fm-saguenay/ Listen Live]
| website          = [https://www.iheartradio.ca/rouge-fm/rouge-fm-saguenay/ iheartradio.ca/rouge-fm/rouge-fm-saguenay]
| callsign_meaning = 
}}

'''CFIX-FM''' is a [[French language|French-language]] [[Canada|Canadian]] [[radio station]] located in [[Saguenay, Quebec|Saguenay]], [[Quebec]]. Its studios are located at Rue Racine Est (co-located with sister stations [[CJAB-FM]] and [[Noovo]] owned-and-operated station [[CFRS-DT]]) in the former city of [[Chicoutimi]].

Owned and operated by [[Bell Media]], it broadcasts on 96.9 [[Hertz|MHz]] using a [[directional antenna]] with a maximum [[effective radiated power]] of 100,000 [[watt]]s ([[List of broadcast station classes|class C]]). The station's transmitter is located at [[Mount Valin]].

The station has an [[adult contemporary]] [[radio format|format]] and is part of the "[[Rouge FM]]" network which operates across Quebec and [[Eastern Ontario]].

The station received [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]] approval in 1986.<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1986/DB86-1042.htm Decision CRTC 86-1042]</ref> CFIX started operations on July 31, 1987 as a [[sister station]] to the now-defunct CJMT 1420 with a [[beautiful music]] format. The latter closed on September 30, 1994 when the [[Télémédia (network)|Télémédia]] network and the Radiomutuel network merged to form the Radiomédia (now [[Corus Québec]]) network.
[[Image:RockDetente969.png|170px|thumb|left|CFIX-FM's last RockDétente-era logo; used from 2004 until August 2011]]
Up until [[1992 in radio|1992]], CFIX had a [[beautiful music]] format. The station switched to [[adult contemporary]] and became part of the "RockDétente" network as the station was renamed ''CFIX Rock-Détente''.

In 2004, Astral Media revamped the Rock Détente network with a new logo. This resulted in ''CFIX Rock-Détente'' being renamed to simply ''96,9 Rock Détente''. As such, the station no longer publicly uses its [[callsign]] (although the callsign was resurrected on the [[station ID]] in 2011).

On August 18, 2011, at 4:00&nbsp;p.m. [[Eastern Time|EDT]], all "RockDétente" stations, including CFIX, rebranded as ''[[Rouge FM]]''.

CFIX was formerly the callsign of [[CFIX (AM)|a now-defunct AM radio station]] at 1170&nbsp;kHz out of [[Cornwall, Ontario|Cornwall]], [[Ontario]] until 1983 when the station went dark due to technical and financial problems.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.iheartradio.ca/rouge-fm/rouge-fm-saguenay/ 96,9 Rouge]
* [https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/quebec/quebec-saguenay-lac-st-jean-cote-nord-nord-du-quebec/CFIX-FM CFIX-FM] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*{{RecnetCanada|CFIX-FM}}

{{Saguenay Radio}}
{{Bell Media}}

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